PREVIOUSLY in Classic Quotes

1  Throughout the year the animals worked even harder than they had worked in the previous year.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII

2  If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X

3  Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

4  The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX

5  Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

6  It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones's side.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX

7  A week later Napoleon gave orders that the small paddock beyond the orchard, which it had previously been intended to set aside as a grazing-ground for animals who were past work, was to be ploughed up.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII

8  The harvest was a little less successful than in the previous year, and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI