1 By this time the weather had broken and the spring ploughing had begun.
2 Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple.
3 All relations with Foxwood had been broken off; insulting messages had been sent to Pilkington.
4 The company had been enjoying a game of cards but had broken off for the moment, evidently in order to drink a toast.
5 At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces.
6 Yes, there it lay, the fruit of all their struggles, levelled to its foundations, the stones they had broken and carried so laboriously scattered all around.
7 Three of them had their heads broken by blows from Boxer's hoofs; another was gored in the belly by a cow's horn; another had his trousers nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell.
8 And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
9 The harness-room at the end of the stables was broken open; the bits, the nose-rings, the dog-chains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones had been used to castrate the pigs and lambs, were all flung down the well.
10 If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well.