1 The knoll where they were lying gave them a wide prospect across the countryside.
2 It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball.
3 Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over the bed of the quarry.
4 The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven.
5 Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm.
6 Mr. Jones's gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse.
7 They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.
8 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.
9 And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.