| 单词 | birdcage |
| 例句 | They reach a room resembling a large metal birdcage, with only darkness visible through the bars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She thinks she longs for rest, a carefree afternoon to decide suddenly to go to the pictures, or just to sit With the birdcages and listen to the children play in snow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, as Marilyn Frye has noted, every birdcage has a door, and every birdcage can be broken and can corrode. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Du Barry gave each one of us a flower potted inside a wire birdcage, and instructed us to change its color and shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The first thing I thought was, Oh God, what if that was the birdcage—and I dashed down the stairs past Emma and ran out on the floor to check. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then, pointing at the birdcage, I said, “I remember when you used to have about twenty birds.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Especially since they were sitting in front of five birdcages, which, Genie realized, if you looked past the entwining vines and leaves, were arranged in a semicircle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Above the desk, there was a birdcage, rocking back and forth. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The black table, the chairs, the silverware, the goblets, the oyster shells and napkins as well as the birdcage and candles and almost everything else had been moved out. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And last, and to Mrs. Richardson most startling of all: a paper cutout of a birdcage, shattered, as if something very powerful inside had burst free. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But up there on Lenox, in Violet and Joe Trace’s apartment, the rooms are like the empty birdcages wrapped in cloth. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In a birdcage by the window, a green parakeet, the last surviving member of my grandparents’ former aviary, was moving back and forth on its balsa wood perch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He moved to a back corner, beneath what looked like a kind of rubber plant, and pointed out a birdcage, which I hadn’t seen before. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Over its door, a hanging birdcage made a plaintive squealing sound in the breeze. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Yep, birdcages,” she confirmed, “back when the Harrises lived in a different house, way back in them woods.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then Jemmy found something even more valuable to him—a bent and battered birdcage. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Round spheres that resemble birdcages rise and descend while one or more aerialists move from within the sphere to without, standing on the top or hanging from the bars on the bottom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Jemmy swung the birdcage, knocking the candle flying. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Leaving his family behind to pack up his library, White grabbed a birdcage “containing a talented green parrot” and drove toward a friend’s house where he hoped to store his possessions. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “And his daddy taught me how to make birdcages, which is where I think Tessy got her craftiness from.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z An old Chinese birdcage, broken down into a web of arched wires, had become an eagle, its brassy skeletal wings spread as if about to take flight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When we got stuck in the birdcage room?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Matter fact, that’s how the whole birdcage thing happened. They had this window in their house. Great big one.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “He said he was gonna grab more wood and wire for his birdcages. But they found his car a few hours up the road. He had jumped in the James River,” Grandma said, flat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Various unusual objects littered the room—a birdcage, a phonograph, a battle-ax, a hanging scale, a mannequin, a globe the size of a beach ball. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I found Golan sitting on his haunches with his head down and his back against the railing, the birdcage between his knees. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Genie took one hesitant step forward, then another, until he saw, tucked between all the foliage, five birdcages all made of wood and wire and set up like small castles. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was made of dirty stone, with only one lone window, and just barely visible in the window was what looked like a birdcage. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He yanked the birdcage out of Jemmy's hand and flung it with all his might. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Some have trunks and capes, others carry birdcages or silver-topped canes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Joseph glanced up to see a birdcage by the window, but there was no bird in the cage. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The facts were cockeyed, but Jemmy grabbed his birdcage, backed off—and was gone. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Once they positioned themselves across from each other, Genie glanced at the yard in front of him, the rickety birdcages all cracked and mangled and peeking from just behind the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The elevator was prewar, with gilded, curving bars like a birdcage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I crept back to my room and picked up the drape over the birdcage. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She has no trunk, no cape, no birdcage or cane. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Approaching on the left will be the open ironwork fence of the Jardin des Plantes, its thin spars like the bars of a great birdcage. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But in his sudden elation, Jemmy banged into the wall with the birdcage. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Questions like, why all the birds and the birdcages? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The children’s eyes grew round when she told them about the escape from Nimh, and even rounder when she described her own capture and escape from the birdcage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He attempts to sort through the contents of a table, pushing aside piles of newspapers and a birdless birdcage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She tripped into the bar in slacks and a pea jacket, carrying a covered birdcage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to move her birdcages around according to the light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He wore a black sherwani jacket over dark jeans, and an empty birdcage swung from his hand. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z One way of understanding our current system of mass incarceration is to think of it as a birdcage with a locked door. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Take flight like a bird, you deserve a birdcage.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She and Nico dropped onto a large birdcage, which promptly broke, dumping them into a cluster of potted ferns along with three very alarmed parrots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Penelope was not interested in weaving and bobbing through the party like a birdcage on a luggage trolley. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it’s tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Genie took one last look at the birdcages, one without a bird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But then she looked up, and in the floor of the birdcage, like a spider in the center of a web, was the symbol she had been seeking. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Get knocked into it with a fist of fatigue to avoid a night of noisy silence, empty birdcages that don’t need wrapping in cloth, of bold unsmiling girls staring from the mantelpiece. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Still clinging to the birdcage, Jemmy continued feeling his way along. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z In sneakers he passed beneath the twelve damply newspapered birdcages suspended from the rafters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was a birdcage, dangling from the tower window like a flag in the wind, but inside the birdcage she could see a small and frightened Sunny. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Mini pushed him and he fell over on his side, knocking into the birdcage on the floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Perched on a small table in front of the bookshelves in the back of the room was an ornate gold birdcage with its door open. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But they jerked and pushed and he was headed up when they jerked and he shot to die surface, still inside the birdcage of formers and cables. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Birds and birdcages appear throughout as more generic harbingers of resurrection and rebirth. 2010-02-12T23:56:00Z When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z For Betty, trapped in a suburban birdcage, the opportunity to break out and swoop back to a lost life as a Manhattan model is too good to turn down. Mad Men: season one, episode nine 2010-05-25T17:15:00Z Her arrangement of the bamboo segments also gives the space the air of a Surrealistic birdcage. How Inexpensive Bamboo Panels Ended Up on the Walls of One of Paris’s Chicest Rooms 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Décor in this moderate-size space befits a dead aunt’s conservatory, and hews to well-worn tropes: Edison bulbs in birdcages, gold wallpaper, a crystal chandelier. Boîte: The Flat, a New Brooklyn Bar 2012-08-08T20:18:03Z Look at all the stuff on sale – there's an old telly, a birdcage, some spoons. The Possession – keeping it real 2012-05-30T12:29:00Z The setting was an elaborate 1920s salon with one model wearing a white feathered coat and standing inside a birdcage. On the Runway Blog: Thom Browne, Layer Upon Layer 2011-09-12T22:41:45Z The Teacher’s underground birdcages can’t hold their crakes and eagles, and eventually the Akkad boy himself seems like a creature that has flown free. Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales make cameos in a dark, comedic novel 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z One model sported what looked like birdcage, in translucent silk with visible bone-work, that trapped her arms inside. The naked and the dead at Paris couture 2010-07-08T00:29:00Z Inside an old, standing birdcage festooned on the outside with padlocks and keyrings are three crudely caricatured black male figures, a clock and a crow figurine, Saar's ominous, oft-used reference to Jim Crow. What to see in L.A. galleries: Betye Saar, Tom Knechtel, Kay Sekimachi 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The bride held a small bouquet of red and purple roses and wore a custom-made birdcage veil and scarlet heels. On Love: Tenisha Campbell and Ron Holloway 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A small birdcage floated above the piano, and three towering windows lighted up the room. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Kristen Cure, a former administrative assistant, remembered searching for a birdcage the club could buy for one of his pet parrots and refilling a cash card for his use. At the Friars Club, When the Laughter Stopped 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Maybe she'll keep you scrunched up in a birdcage for a while. "True Blood" finale: The big showdown 2010-09-13T12:30:00Z Another image from that day is imprinted in Jan’s mind: an empty birdcage, spotted among the debris. Oosterbeek echoes to the battle of Arnhem: my tour guide’s vivid war memories 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z "It's like a giant Victorian birdcage," says Rintoul, and with its thin iron columns set close together and arched timber roof, that's exactly what the structure resembles. National Museum of Scotland: suspend your disbelief 2011-07-26T20:31:01Z Everyone gets his or her own little birdcage gondola. The Wheels Come Off an American Journey in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Making a cake look like a teapot or a birdcage or the deep-blue Earth is one thing; making them edible is quite another. Christine McConnell ‘Deceptive Desserts’ is a lady’s guide to baking bad 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z In a small, white tiled space sits a birdcage. Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine: life, the universe and everything 2013-02-13T19:30:01Z “This is where he is so brilliant: The barred metal structure implies confinement, but he turns it into a gilded birdcage.” Ai Weiwei, Once and Future New Yorker, Barnstorms Through the Boroughs 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Later the columnist was air-kissed by someone with a birdcage on his head. 2010-01-29T23:40:00Z A burlesque performer twirled on a hoop inside a giant birdcage. On Fashion?s Night Out, Normal Hits the Streets 2010-09-13T18:00:00Z On the street, she wore a birdcage over her head and a tin-can bra. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Maxwell Davies suggests that each musician sits inside a giant birdcage, but this powerful performance from baritone Marcus Farnsworth and the Hebrides Ensemble found a simpler staging solution. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-11-13T19:00:06Z If you’re going for a more relaxed bridal look, consider replacing the traditional veil with a flirty birdcage veil, a statement-making headband, or even a chic brimmed hat embellished with some of your wedding flowers. What Should You Wear for Your Micro Wedding? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z There's a wooden birdcage with chicken figurines, an ode to where he came from, and the evolution of his ambition. New doc "John Lewis: Good Trouble" gives nuance to a relentless freedom fighter 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z He made us believe in Captain Hook and Tinkerbell, and so we can believe that women oppressed by Victorian strictures could find the spirit to escape their gilded birdcages of propriety. Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy 2013-05-07T21:01:15Z An ornate birdcage, off to one side, held a very large ratty-looking pigeon. Death at Soho House 2011-02-04T23:13:13Z Capitol is trapped inside a birdcage of 52 miles of scaffolding. Blight of fancy: D.C. starts to feel like ‘Mad Max’ amid constant construction 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z On it sat a motley collection of things: a petite birdcage containing a fake bird; a model of a grand piano; a golden crown. With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z A brass birdcage displayed in the corner window was draped with bulging strands of crayon-colored beads — baubles from Bangkok by way of Beshawar. Roberta Freymann Is All Over the Map by Design 2010-10-13T23:49:00Z Schuette has denounced the brief as fit to “line a birdcage,” but guess what: he is still fighting on the same side as a white nationalist affiliated group to prevent gay couples from getting married. White nationalist group joins Michigan state officials in their fight against marriage equality 2014-04-01T14:26:00Z Outside a nearby brokerage house, a policeman allegedly found a discarded birdcage with a live parrot squawking, “More margin! More margin!” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The last step was layering, like distributing smaller items like old trophies, board games or magazines, and putting a birdcage - a perfect metaphor - in a central location. Designer Scott Pask creates ‘a beautiful mess’ on Broadway 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The last step was layering, like distributing smaller items like old trophies, board games or magazines, and putting a birdcage — a perfect metaphor — in a central location. Designer Scott Pask creates ‘a beautiful mess’ on Broadway 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z In 2018, he warned that a deal between the Vatican and China that cedes too much authority to Beijing would place the country’s Catholic followers in a big “birdcage.” Arrested Hong Kong cardinal a fiery critic of Beijing 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z As she sings the tune -- off her latest album "Wildcard" -- Lambert sits in a birdcage as onlookers watch her. Miranda Lambert is a 'Bluebird' in new music video 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z This is a depiction of a canary in a birdcage. Sen. Sherrod Brown on a "new progressive era" in America — and no, he's not running 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In others, birdcages are small prisons for a variety of objects placed inside. Review: At LACMA, Betye Saar's distinctive assemblage art probes American racism 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Later, Swift will tell me she needs metaphors “to understand anything that happens to me”, and the birdcage defies you not to interpret it as a pointed comment on the contradictions of stardom. Taylor Swift: ‘Pop music can feel like it’s The Hunger Games, and like we’re gladiators’ 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z At the other is Betye Saar’s 2010 “The Destiny of Latitude & Longitude,” sailing ships and bundles of mottled gray hair housed inside an extravagant birdcage, silently singing a mordant refrain of freedom and captivity. MOCA on the rebound? Three strong shows and free entry are welcome signs of change 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z One day in that tumultuous year he left his flat on Brook Street, Mayfair, and strolled down nearby Carnaby Street with a birdcage in his hands. The great green expansion: how ring-necked parakeets took over London 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Those include a 2017 drawing by Jimmy Margulies of King Features Syndicate that portrays the iconic Twitter bird logo with a Trump hairstyle, sitting in a birdcage lined with newspapers. Exhibit highlights cartoonists’ focus on First Amendment 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Vasquez, 54, had become known as the Birdman of East Village for his daily walks around downtown and Balboa Park with a tower of three birdcages strapped to his back. San Diego birdman beaten, beloved cockatoo killed after unprovoked attack 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Above a koi pond in the living area, a narrow staircase spirals six feet up towards a giant, pillow-lagged birdcage that probably has the best view in the city. Taylor Swift: ‘Pop music can feel like it’s The Hunger Games, and like we’re gladiators’ 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dumped all over a Politico article Tuesday, calling it “birdcage lining.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deems Politico article about Hakeem Jeffries challenge ‘birdcage lining’ 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Speaking of canaries, one highly whimsical touch was a white birdcage purse - with a wallet inside, resembling a bird. At Oscar de la Renta, a Mediterranean vacation on a rooftop 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Others were more daring: an enormous, multipetaled pink blossom; a perilously perched birdcage wrapped in ivy; a theatrical, exuberant explosion of feathers. Sunday Best: Royal Ascot 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z On Wednesday morning, he said, he slipped on his birdcage backpack and headed out of his small apartment on Market Street to the library to return a rented DVD. San Diego birdman beaten, beloved cockatoo killed after unprovoked attack 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Inside its box, the lander is surrounded by a large metal cage — referred to as the “birdcage” — that keeps it in place. I flew with the next NASA spacecraft that will land on Mars 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z But perched in what looks like a giant birdcage at Oregon State University is a steel cylinder nearly 20 feet tall, thick as a redwood, bristling with gauges and wrapped in a tangle of wires. The future of nuclear power? Think small 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Amid heaps of broken pottery and ash, a birdcage with burnt feathers was visible. Heart of disaster: California wildfire evacuees return to a wasteland 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Old-school service is alive and well at the Plaza: High tea treats are served in brass birdcages, tuxedo-clad bellman whisk away luggage to gilded suites, and chefs bear toques that tower above their heads. 12 Shocking Things I Learned by Working as a Butler at the Plaza Hotel 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z One shows a doll locked in a birdcage, holding a flickering candle. Liu Xiaobo’s Dying Words for His Wife 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The top of the shipping container is removed, revealing the “birdcage” that surrounds the lander. I flew with the next NASA spacecraft that will land on Mars 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A gold birdcage trolley stood abandoned on the short stretch of road between the amphitheatre and the Temple of Bel. Desecrated but still majestic: inside Palmyra after second Isis occupation 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Some people call it “the birdcage,” Laughlin Town Manager Brian Paulson said - the 14- and 7½-story buildings are see-through, due to a lack of walls - and rumors have swirled about the property for years. Laughlin’s abandoned Emerald River resort remains an eyesore 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “Of course, he said the same thing about an old rusty birdcage he found.” Seth Meyers emerges with higher profile in the wake of election 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The shop posted a photo of it — “in all his glory” — with a carefully placed birdcage covering the most sensitive parts. Naked Trump statue relocated to Capitol Hill vintage shop 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The rapper Nas was annoyed when he won an empty birdcage after a round of “Media Mogul or Rabbi?” Billy Eichner’s Comedy of Confrontation 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z You can buy a beret or a birdcage. Inside France’s National Food Festival 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The parlor level also once displayed a birdcage lamp, resting on a piano, a nod to her autobiographical work “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” published in 1969. Maya Angelou’s Harlem Home for Sale 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z A senior Chinese reformer propounded the “birdcage” theory of the “socialist market economy”: The market sector should be as free to fly as a bird in a cage — the cage of a state-commanded economy. China’s deeply flawed ascent 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z During the Great War, it was described as ‘a birdcage surrounded by roaring lions.’ Dada: 100 Years Later 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “But with this bill, it's as though the government had set aside some birdcages and said, ‘If you stay in there you'll be safe from civil suits and criminal prosecution.’ Hong Kong netizens worry copyright bill will limit freedom of expression 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Up the echoing metal staircase that wound around the broken birdcage lift she walked, her heels clanging on the metal. Exclusive Excerpt: Detective Cormoran Strike Returns 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Ray Harinarain cut the lusty Hellcat engine of his Dodge Challenger and gently lifted his birdcage from the front seat. Tiny Birds, Big Drama: Inside the World of the Birdmen of Queens 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z But with its pagoda style roofline and ball finials, Prevue Pet’s Royalty birdcage, $399, adds a dash of Chinoiserie style for your feathered friends. Haute dog! Stylish pet furniture that suits your home decor 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z She plies Smiley with a home-cooked meal at her house in North Carolina, a sanctuary filled with a collection of birdcages . Getting close up with Maya Angelou 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z In one abandoned home, a charred birdcage still hung in the kitchen; in another, a blackened Bible lay open on a table. The dam of self-restraint bursts for Pakistan’s Christians 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z While most of us associate the last Queen of France with towering, 3-foot-high coiffures showcasing flowers, birdcages and jewels, this particular piece of furniture never witnessed such frippery. Getty's 'Luxury and Liberation' spotlights French Revolution opulence 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z A century-old birdcage elevator lies idle, stuck on the first floor. In Myanmar, Racing to Save a Colonial Past in Decay 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Any jurist obeying his or her oath of office would treat such advice as birdcage lining. McCleary case: Former governors meddling in judiciary branch 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z It was kept in a birdcage and fed baby food and bananas while officers searched for a permanent home. Drugs-bust primate given UK asylum 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z A pro-democracy lawmaker throws a birdcage at the government, meaning that the government is trying to keep Hong Kong in China’s cage. Video: Hong Kong Legislator Throws a Bird Cage at the Government 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z That's where any allegations about challenging Woods' golf ethics belong: On the bottom on the birdcage, the ink on paper covered with an appropriate evaluation of its veracity. Sirak: Tiger Woods Has Nowhere To Hide 2013-10-19T04:00:00Z Or hopping from one perch to the other in a birdcage. Sharks have rhythm, too 2013-08-07T22:45:00.970Z The end of the walk used to be known as the birdcage - a space with netting overhead, where prisoners got their last glimpse of the sky before they stepped out onto the gallows. The secret world of the Old Bailey 2013-06-09T02:30:28Z The diaphragm contracts—pulling air into the lungs—and relaxes, pushing air into that birdcage of calcium and cartilage—the larynx—within which wings of tissue draw near one another and hum. Mrs. Dalloway in New York City: Documenting How People Talk to Themselves in Their Heads 2013-04-29T14:15:00.550Z The wagon was emptied of its hay and loaded up with such little treasures as the villagers possessed, among them an extraordinary number of birdcages. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z On another table a very large birdcage covered with a tablecloth. Carlyon Sahib 2011-10-23T02:00:21.590Z Pretty soon, the old witch ran out of the back door to chase the pig and by this time Little Jack Rabbit had placed the birdcage in the Bunnymobile. Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare 2011-05-09T02:00:05.633Z Of course, he also said the same thing about a rusty birdcage he found.” Obama Zings The Donald at Correspondents' Dinner 2011-05-01T19:35:38Z As the tornado passed overhead, she and her brother had to hold the birdcage tight to keep Spiffy from being sucked away. Tornado's wake 2011-04-29T22:36:04Z Then he gazed steadfastly across the court at the opposite window, which was hung round with birdcages, whose occupants twittered sweetly, while one, a lark, seemed to fill the court with his joyous song. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z There was a birdcage hung in the window but without a bird. Rachel Ray He is a lover of pets, as we see by the birdcage hanging in the window. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation The girls giggled hysterically as, almost with tears in her voice, she descanted upon the merits of a cracked teapot, the beauties of a battered birdcage, or the capacity of a Japanese pencil-box. The Head Girl at the Gables What is there to hang, excepting the birdcage with the dingy canary, belonging to the porter, at the entrance door? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Yes, there is a barmaid at the 'Cheese,' mewed up in a box not much bigger than a birdcage, surrounded by groves of lemons, 'ones' of cheese, punch-bowls, and cruets of mushroom-catsup. Old and New London Volume I She came forward, and we made our way towards her as well as we could through a confusion of tables, chairs, and work-baskets, china, writing-desks and inkstands, and birdcages, and a harp. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen But Smut shook his head, as if to say, "I am not a dicky-bird, sweet maid, but only a four-legged cat;" then they opened the birdcage door, and he walked out, waving his tail. Very Short Stories and Verses For Children One woman had three cages of canaries, which she had the greatest difficulty in holding; another had a birdcage in one hand and a great cat in the other arm. Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic They now found themselves in a small square space, guarded on two sides by tall iron railings, which bent overhead, and were let into the wall somewhat after the manner of a birdcage. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 He saw Smithy's birdcage, walked over to it and stared for a moment quietly at Dicky, the doctor's parakeet. When I Grow Up Pretty soon he found an old birdcage, in which he put poor Jimmy Crow. Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures So Smut was put into a birdcage, for there was nothing else to serve him for a travelling carriage, and taken to the dear friend's house. Very Short Stories and Verses For Children It was wonderful how many people had cats with them; some held by a string, some in birdcages, but many held in arms. Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic I was so scared, I felt as if the end had come, and I was bein’ jerked to my reward in an iron birdcage with a small kid dressed in brass buttons. Hepsey Burke I hissed, moving stealthily forward with the remains of the birdcage. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 In a word the place was like a birdcage or a warren. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 “You see that Robby and I are not all alone,” he observed, as he pointed round the room to the birdcages. Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good A little shrine of bamboo of the size of a common birdcage is built for it, sometimes fixed and sometimes movable. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy On the stone near where Jane was sitting was a small birdcage. Rollo on the Atlantic In one hand she flourished an empty birdcage and in the other what proved to be a tin of enormous hemp seeds. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 The tall man with the nervous, irritable face and the little girl with the birdcage in her hand. Mary Rose of Mifflin The birdcage, instead of being high in the tree, is lowered and hangs from it. Pickwickian Manners and Customs The whole structure presented the coup-d’oeil of a huge birdcage, with its wires of gold! The Rifle Rangers The birdcage and dog musical-box in the illustration are of this kind. Chatterbox, 1905. Then I am not at all sure," I began hopefully, "that I can countenance the keeping of mules in birdcages! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 A hand reached out a basket and then a birdcage. Mary Rose of Mifflin There were several birdcages in the windows, and a constant trilling and chirping going on within them. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Pasadena has no ragged shabby outskirts; the poorer classes seem to be able to own or rent pretty little homes, some like large birdcages, all well kept and attractive. A Truthful Woman in Southern California She falls to pieces only they wraps all the upper parts together with wire till she looks like a birdcage. Blister Jones The life of the roadside dwellers, the folk who live in little stone houses and show two flower-pots and a birdcage in their windows, has a strange fascination for me. The Amateur Army She slipped down and ran into the next room to come back with a birdcage. Mary Rose of Mifflin What a heap of rubbish they take away with them—old birdcages, worm-eaten furniture, and every kind of lumber! Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag All yesterday and to-day we have been making flannel coats for the monkey, and covers for birdcages, and improvising shelters and snug corners for our pets. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months In front of my own cover two pretty downy chicks were pecking in a cottage made of crystal slats and heavily thatched with spun glass—the prettiest birdcage in the world. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 He was back in the square again and fighting—Heaven knew why—with an officer of the Brunswickers over a birdcage. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales "I can't imagine how anyone who has seen that ducky child with her birdcage could have had the heart to steal her canary." Mary Rose of Mifflin The farm windmill was as twisted as a birdcage that has been rolled under a trolley car, but a large hayrake was unharmed. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form When one sees these birdcages full of birds and comprehends the spirit of flight, one is less surprised at the unimaginable feats which are daily performed over there in the sky northwards and eastwards. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front He left his house at about half-past ten, and again immured himself in the birdcage lift that carried him up to his partner's flat, where he inquired if he had yet returned. The Blotting Book Whence the birdcage came he had no clear idea, but there was a canary-bird inside, and he wanted it. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales Near the sink was an open cupboard with three shelves, broad and high enough to hold a birdcage. Mary Rose of Mifflin Take care of the birdcage in my hand, will you?' Dombey and Son Obtaining the permission he desired, he darted off with breathless eagerness, and, still carrying the birdcage in his hand, made straight towards the spot. The Old Curiosity Shop Yes; one of the men did remember a stout lady in a red shawl, with a baby and a birdcage and a crowd of boxes, who had gone by the second-class. The Lovels of Arden This door was of solid wood, with a square panel cut from its centre, the opening barred like a birdcage. The Under Dog There were birdcages within the shadow of the muslin curtains, and the colouring of the newly-pointed brickwork was agreeably relieved by the vivid green of Venetian blinds. Birds of Prey She would see the row of elms and the white wall at the end with the green balcony hung out like a birdcage above the green door. Life and Death of Harriett Frean And the street was cluttered with trees in tubs, window boxes, sudden little fountains or statues; gilded wicker birdcages on tall poles—songs issuing therefrom. Ptomaine Street The next minute she was precipitated on the floor of the stage, with the birdcage under her. The Adventures of Joel Pepper Purchases apparently were always made after dusk, and Ah Fu with his birdcage was due that evening. Tales of Chinatown The drops of the chandeliers twinkled like little stars in the sunshine; the brass birdcages were undimmed by any shadow of dulness. Birds of Prey They left the white house with the green balcony hung out like a birdcage at the side, and turned into the cottage at Hampstead. Life and Death of Harriett Frean Martha's head had all this time been thrust out of the easement, her gaze apparently fixed on a birdcage hung from a hook near the shutter. Tides of Barnegat A birdcage hung in the sunny window of her house when she was a girl. Ulysses Durham's view-point limited his area of vision, but presently, as the light came nearer and nearer, he discerned Ah Fu, carrying a lantern in one hand and a birdcage in the other. Tales of Chinatown "Why, there's the birdcage, with a pretty pair, The charming Montalais, and..." Ten Years Later A large birdcage swung from a staple in the window and two canaries peered cautiously from their perches at the kitten in her lap. The Foolish Virgin So on the present occasion with heedless caution they carried Many valueless chattels, o'erlading the cattle and horses,— Common old boards and barrels, a birdcage next to a goosepen. The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres Now, to the watcher's unbounded astonishment, Ah Fu placed the birdcage in the opening, and apparently reclosed the trap in the end of the coffin. Tales of Chinatown |
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