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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 Napoleon took no interest in Snowball's committees.
2 After only a moment or two they gave up trying to defend themselves and took to their heels.
3 They took refuge in the farm buildings and peeped cautiously out from chinks and knot-holes.
4 But of all their controversies, none was so bitter as the one that took place over the windmill.
5 His very first blow took a stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud.
6 They took their exercise in the garden, and were discouraged from playing with the other young animals.
7 It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there.
8 They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it.
9 One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.
10 She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with.
11 As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education.
12 The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over--very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before.
13 He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner service which had been in the glass cupboard in the drawing-room.
14 Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to break.
15 He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.
16 Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "Horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's.
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