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1  There is a pretty good store of stone accumulated.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
2  Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
3  He had gone out alone to drag a load of stone down to the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
4  Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
5  Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
6  Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones's legs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
7  And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen stones.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
8  He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on pension.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
9  But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
10  By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
11  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
12  Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
13  Yes, there it lay, the fruit of all their struggles, levelled to its foundations, the stones they had broken and carried so laboriously scattered all around.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
14  Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
16  With his books held open by a stone, and with a piece of chalk gripped between the knuckles of his trotter, he would move rapidly to and fro, drawing in line after line and uttering little whimpers of excitement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
17  After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever, thinking it well worth while to plod to and fro all day with blocks of stone if by doing so they could raise the walls another foot.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
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