THE in Classic Quotes

1  Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

2  Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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3  After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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4  It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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5  Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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6  As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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7  Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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8  First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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9  At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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10  The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

11  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
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12  He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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13  The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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14  Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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15  The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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16  He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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17  With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I