1 No creature among them went upon two legs.
2 Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed.
3 And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle.
4 They had been credited with attempting to stir up rebellion among the animals on neighbouring farms.
5 In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger.
6 Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale.
7 According to Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeons and stir up rebellion among the animals on the other farms.
8 The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice.
9 In the old days there had often been scenes of bloodshed equally terrible, but it seemed to all of them that it was far worse now that it was happening among themselves.
10 On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers.
11 Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide.
12 Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now.