1 She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach.
2 But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again.
3 You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
4 While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.
5 They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder.
6 The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over--very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before.
7 Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by two horses, with lettering on its side and a sly-looking man in a low-crowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat.
8 Napoleon, with Squealer and another pig named Minimus, who had a remarkable gift for composing songs and poems, sat on the front of the raised platform, with the nine young dogs forming a semicircle round them, and the other pigs sitting behind.
9 Most of this time Mr. Jones had spent sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon, complaining to anyone who would listen of the monstrous injustice he had suffered in being turned out of his property by a pack of good-for-nothing animals.