1 All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork.
2 In the late summer yet another of Snowball's machinations was laid bare.
3 Boxer's twelfth birthday was due in the late summer of the following year.
4 The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
5 Nevertheless, as the summer wore on, various unforeseen shortages began to make them selves felt.
6 By the late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county.
7 Late one evening in the summer, a sudden rumour ran round the farm that something had happened to Boxer.
8 In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years.
9 The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier.
10 By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
11 As the summer wore on, and the windmill neared completion, the rumours of an impending treacherous attack grew stronger and stronger.
12 They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent.
13 Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well.
14 When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
15 They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies.
16 In the middle of the summer the animals were alarmed to hear that three hens had come forward and confessed that, inspired by Snowball, they had entered into a plot to murder Napoleon.
17 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.
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