TAIL in Classic Quotes

1  One of them all but closed his jaws on Snowball's tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

2  His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply from side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI

3  He fidgeted to and fro, swishing his long black tail against his sides and occasionally uttering a little whinny of surprise.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

4  One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

5  He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II

6  He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I