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1  To tell you the truth, I had been looking forward to my retirement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
2  She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
3  She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
4  As yet no animal had actually retired on pension, but of late the subject had been discussed more and more.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
5  He had, he said, only one real ambition left--to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
6  Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
7  At the beginning, when the laws of Animal Farm were first formulated, the retiring age had been fixed for horses and pigs at twelve, for cows at fourteen, for dogs at nine, for sheep at seven, and for hens and geese at five.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
8  Even when it was resolved--a thing no one could object to in itself--to set aside the small paddock behind the orchard as a home of rest for animals who were past work, there was a stormy debate over the correct retiring age for each class of animal.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III