VOTING in Classic Quotes

1  By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

2  The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III

3  The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

4  There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

5  At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

6  It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

7  He said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it, and promptly sat down again; he had spoken for barely thirty seconds, and seemed almost indifferent as to the effect he produced.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V