1 Snowball was racing across the long pasture that led to the road.
2 Napoleon, who seldom moved out of a walk, raced ahead of them all.
3 All the other animals immediately raced back to the farmhouse to give Squealer the news.
4 Their relations with the human race were now not quite the same as they had been before.
5 Whymper, his face deadly pale, came racing up the path on his bicycle, flung it down in the yard and rushed straight into the farmhouse.
6 But they woke at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering the glorious thing that had happened, they all raced out into the pasture together.
7 The animals were at breakfast when the look-outs came racing in with the news that Frederick and his followers had already come through the five-barred gate.
8 Too late, someone thought of racing ahead and shutting the five-barred gate; but in another moment the van was through it and rapidly disappearing down the road.
9 If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race.
10 The flag was green, Snowball explained, to represent the green fields of England, while the hoof and horn signified the future Republic of the Animals which would arise when the human race had been finally overthrown.
11 Their first act was to gallop in a body right round the boundaries of the farm, as though to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere upon it; then they raced back to the farm buildings to wipe out the last traces of Jones's hated reign.