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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short.
2 The force of the explosion had flung them to distances of hundreds of yards.
3 They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge.
4 Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard.
5 The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.
6 Panic overtook them, and the next moment all the animals together were chasing them round and round the yard.
7 Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox in the yard.
8 Back in the yard Boxer was pawing with his hoof at the stable-lad who lay face down in the mud, trying to turn him over.
9 There were fifteen men, with half a dozen guns between them, and they opened fire as soon as they got within fifty yards.
10 At a moment when the opening was clear, the men were glad enough to rush out of the yard and make a bolt for the main road.
11 The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the degrading nosebags, were thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard.
12 One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.
13 It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.
14 As soon as they were well inside the yard, the three horses, the three cows, and the rest of the pigs, who had been lying in ambush in the cowshed, suddenly emerged in their rear, cutting them off.
15 Early in October, when the corn was cut and stacked and some of it was already threshed, a flight of pigeons came whirling through the air and alighted in the yard of Animal Farm in the wildest excitement.
16 But once again the men, with their sticks and their hobnailed boots, were too strong for them; and suddenly, at a squeal from Snowball, which was the signal for retreat, all the animals turned and fled through the gateway into the yard.
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.
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