In the cage Chester was bowing to everybody. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t get sick. Someone”—Iran cleared her throat and went on huskily—“someone came here, got the goat out of its cage, and dragged it to the edge of the roof.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to sleep in the cage?” asked Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes stay with Bo and I am acutely aware of the fire licking against my rib cage. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was pure guesswork, but we had to try to put the animals back into the correct cages. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard if you put a blanket over a bird's cage, and they can’t tell it’s daytime anymore, they’ll just go to sleep. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Viento!” she said, moving her hands across the air like she was weaving an intricate design and manipulating the wind so it interlaced and made...a cage of thorns. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I decided to leave my other coat over Toby’s cage because I didn’t want him to get cold and die. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Follow me, and don’t get too near the cages.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Grace saw her dad glance between Maya and Lauren, and she wondered if he was thinking what Grace was thinking: that those two were one dessert course away from a full-fledged cage match. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The only things that moved were the flames and the snake, coiling and uncoiling in the glittering cage behind Voldemort’s head. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And, while most people might have a few terrors rattling their cages, she had...all of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mormont emerged from the cramped confines of the cage bent and squinting, with both eyes blackened and his back crusty with dried blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The helicopter light shot down a dozen brilliant pillars that built a cage all about the man. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But through the darkness that enveloped him he heard another metallic click, and knew that the cage door had clicked shut and not open. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“And so he taught me how to make the rescue cages. For when he wasn’t around. I mean, he wasn’t even that old, but I guessed he figured, just in case.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I would then need at least five minutes to get him from his cage to the table and feed him. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the creak of hinges, the rattle of my cage, but I can’t see beyond my eyes, though they are open. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought I would bring food to his cage, but then it occurred to me that Chester must be taking everything away that was given to him. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

They took the cage to the roof one Saturday, where the wind blew and so did the musicians in shirts billowing out behind them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a considerable amount of time spent trapped within the room, Bailey finds a key concealed in the seat of the swing in the middle of the cage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s like I live in a cage with no door and no key. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The pain was intense, and Zeitoun’s cage mates tried to help, to come up with a solution—anything sharp to use on it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He films Ruby in her cage, with her foot roped to the bolt in the floor. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He saw puddles of blood in some of the pans under their cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cage was closed, then locked with chain and a padlock. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They’re on him before he gets more than his fingers into the cage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“And you don’t put ’em in cages, either!” said Olive. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every morning, a civilian animal caretaker put on a space suit and went inside to feed the monkeys and clean their cages and check on their physical condition. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I knew, she only went to school and came straight home, which made her seem a little like a caged bird who no one trusted to fly. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was a yellow canary in a cage. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked just past her face and didn’t turn its head when she tweeted and purred through the bars of the little cage. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pointing at a number of round balls of fluff in shades of pink and purple, all rolling around the bottom of a cage and emitting high-pitched squeaks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I could not see Jenner’s face in the dark of the cage, but I knew from his voice that he was worrying. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t say I blame the guy, stuck in that tiny cage all these years.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The tusks on their helms were the fangs of ravids, and the cages at their belts held scorpions, and they were not all men. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, he was an eternal optimist, so he kept the great cage of the fifth level always in readiness. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most were sheep bones, but there were horses too, and cattle, and now and again a human skull, or a headless skeleton with weeds poking up through its rib cage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Birds disappear from cages with false bottoms, handkerchiefs slip from pockets to be concealed again in cuffs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They jumped over a water trench and ducked under a row of caged wolves. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They rub their breasts against the wire of the cage until they are bald and bleeding. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When my turn came, the door of my cage slid open just enough for Dr. Schultz to put his gloved hand through. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a large treasure chest in a caged room that appears to have no way in or out. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I figured you were here because someone told you about the others. A starving man showed up a few days ago with two monkeys in a cage on his bike.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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 things she had seen—the cages, the ice, the sea—should she have told Kaede and the others about them? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had probably been in that cage the whole time, with nothing warm to touch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And cross your fingers she’ll be off setting up cages for the poultry show.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder what would happen if they put Algernon back in the big cage with some of the other mice. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to get more money, and he made the cages much, much bigger. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had that same big yard inside, that was always sort of dark, with those cages around the light bulbs so they wouldn't break if they got hit with a ball. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She removed the four dead monkeys from their cages, holding them by the backs of the arms, and loaded them into plastic biohazard bags. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between songs one of the boys from the band snuck around back of our cage with a bottle in his hands. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He leaned his two sturdy sticks against Alys’s hut and hung the cage on a tree branch near the entrance. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He found Leathers waiting for him by the winch cage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I count the number of rotations we have left in “Volleyball!” before it’s my serve and then glance at the huge clock in its protective cage on the wall. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She is coming with us, and lies in the cage before her saucer of meat, and purrs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed her mother into the stinky store crowded with stacked shelves of crooked stick and wire cages. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The right wall had two empty cages big enough for large zoo animals. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He squeezed Pond’s rib cage with his thighs and wrapped his hands around Pond’s neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, “I know why the caged bird sings.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She said that the Portuguese trader had a yellow-and-blue parrot in a cage. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Volt found them in the morning, hunched up in their cages, staring with glassy, half-open eyes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Processing had taken three hours, and the four men had been in the cage for three more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Rani picks Jay up off my shoulder and sets him in front of his cage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

After swearing Abdulrahman to secrecy, Ahmad brought him up to the roof and showed him a cage he had built from scrap wood and chicken wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Reveling in the removal of his Trace, Harry sent Ron’s possessions flying around the room, causing Pigwidgeon to wake up and flutter excitedly around his cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The celebrity was just at that moment having himself a big yawn in the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tar had been placed upstairs in a wire cage, and amazingly, she was sleeping soundly. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Some writhed and gnashed their teeth, trying to free themselves from their haphazard cages. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The room was an empty cage until I walked into it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She tickled me, and I tried not to flinch when she dug into the left side of my rib cage. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the glass cage, the TV is on. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Once the bonobos were secured in the truck, it hit me: They had to fly north, then take the cages by dugout canoe up the Congo River until they reached the release site. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mice in cages, so the cats wouldn’t get them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But you could hear, if you and your neighbor got in the corners of the cages nearest each other and spoke out through the wire front. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hands wrap around my arms and shoulders and chest, forming a cage of flesh and bone, but I keep straining toward her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Do they have to be in safe spaces like cages? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The birds that appear from all manner of locations have no cages at all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the gold cage behind him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He poked his finger into the little lopsided cage of twigs and twine that dangled from his rope belt. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The post office, an official-looking cage in back of the store, had about twenty-five combination boxes to one side of the grille. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not touching you! Go away! Get in your cage!” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cancerous and tubercular rats and mice leaped about their cages. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun thought little of him until his own cage was opened and the man was pushed inside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of other dogs yapping and barking and anxiously pacing around in their cramped cages. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Justin announced one evening around the partition: “I’m going to get out of my cage tonight and wander around a bit.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I moved up and could see the cage was completely empty, but I thought they had just moved the baboon to some other cage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a gap between the cage and the steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The back doors were opened again, and through the wire wall of the cage I saw that we had come to a building, very modern, of white cement and glass. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the cages were finished, the Angola prisoners were sent back north, and the guards remained. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lions, prowling their cages with hungry saliva dripping from their great jaws. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A heavy figure in black was leaning on the winch, while a second held the cage with a gloved hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring on an old man's finger. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He made me feel as though I was a bat in a cage and he was on the outside looking in at me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chester was leaning up against the matchbox when suddenly two fingers began to work their way through the bars of the cage toward the little silver bell. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chickens in the cages were alive and cramped, jabbering, in their boxy prisons. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be that your conscience is ethical and you recognize what a merciless action it would be to cage a free creature of ALLAH? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Besides his captives, Ser Gregor was bringing back a dozen pigs, a cage of chickens, a scrawny milk cow, and nine wagons of salt fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nancy stood well back from the cages and took shallow breaths, not wanting to let the smell of monkey get too deep into her lungs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized the birds—one in each cage—they were the same kind as the one he’d seen pecking around on the front porch, the one wearing blue feathers like a cape and mask. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Westley lay back on the floor of the giant underground cage watching as the albino silently reloaded the tray, glided from sight. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They are coiled around with a lattice of roots, which sometimes form the shapes of cages, sometimes balconies, and sometimes what appear more like tightropes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The door to my cage is propped open. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And now my heart’s banging around my rib cage like a drunk, blindfolded bird. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Less excusable than a wayward mouth is an independent hand that can find in a parrot’s cage a knife lost for weeks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes your body feels like a cage for all the stuff inside. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the Gales’ house my father honked again and out they came—Mr. and Mrs. Gale carrying a cage between them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are always places to go further down, even when you’ve been taken off the board; life goes on, even if it’s life under a microscope or life in a cage. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Some nights he thinks of the faces, the people who arrested him, who jailed him, who shuttled him between cages like an animal, who transported him like luggage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And the night before that, beside the window, when I thought he must have felt so caged. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were fifteen other cages, many of them empty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I wanna go. Do you have the cage things on a pole that they use?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I hurried back through the marketplace, past the man with the trained monkey on a chain and the stall where birds were imprisoned in tiny cages. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want him to lie down and go to sleep up there? No. It was a small piece. Even that could have me thrown in the cage with him.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He put on leather gauntlet gloves, opened the door of the cage, reached inside, and pinned the monkey down. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she reaches across the table and pulls me fiercely into her arms, which form a wire cage around me, surprisingly strong. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I watched as the spoken words were written down to become like caged birds, caught forever by my clever baap. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The queen looked like one of her caged animals being whisked off on a conveyor belt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Not long after, slow on his ruined feet, the young man made his way laboriously down from his hut on the hillside, carrying the twig cage on his back, with the bird inside. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The little door to the cage was open. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

On an unseasonably warm March day Charles had observed Jenny in her cage in the giraffe house. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny to think rich people, who can be free, build fancy cages to live in. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But when he got nearer the newsstand, he was even more surprised to hear the strains of the Grand March from Aida coming from the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know it’s caged for protection—so no truck-driving supplier tosses a box into the corner and shatters the bulb. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

One ring told the operator to lower the cage into place. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Men were standing on the wall ready to pull up the gate of the corral and then the gate of the cage. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My heart lurched to life, pounding against my rib cage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When he turns it, the swing itself rises and the top of the cage opens, allowing them to climb out, escaping into a dimly lit temple guarded by an albino Sphinx. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Justin opened its doors, unlatched their cages, and the mice came out. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The drumming of the rain against the hoods of their cages had the ravens squawking and fluttering. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I would pace for hours like a caged leopard, viciously cursing aloud to myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He ought to be in a cage!” shouted Arm, stanching the blood on Ear’s ear with a handkerchief. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three meant to “Bail ’em out,” or lower the cage. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I read about that in Introduction to Psychology; that, and the chapter on caged rats who’d give themselves electric shocks for something to do. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the cages she had seen in her visions; the glimpses of the fay trapped within them—she knew now that they had been imprisoned there by this woman. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thousands of white pigeons suddenly rose from cages on the field, swirling through the stadium in a white whirlwind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat was light and fast as bird’s wings beating against a cage. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I started moving away and heading for the door John went to Mr. Pignati and just took his arm lightly trying to turn him away from the empty cage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I can count every rib in my rib cage, but my stomach protrudes outward, bloated like a ball between my chest and hips. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bat cracked hard against Fred’s rib cage, but he kept coming. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the Palace they built a wire cage and in it their collection of angry tom cats grew with every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can say any more, they roll her cage out to a waiting truck. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Opaque, silver test tubes were being fed along a narrow cage, moving forward as if to greet the computers: one tube for each computer. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The doves that appear onstage and occasionally in the audience during Prospero’s performances are kept in elaborate cages, delivered to each theater along with the rest of his luggage and supplies. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time, they live in cages suspended over a deep bedding of woodchips. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Chain-link fences, topped by razor wire, had been erected into a long, sixteen-foot-high cage extending about a hundred yards into the lot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One by one we were taken from our cages, held gently but firmly by Dr. Schultz while Julie fastened around each of our necks a narrow ribbon of yellow plastic bearing a number. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two more had burritos lodged in their rib cages. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Three cats hiss from the relative safety of their cages. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It contained a scrolled wire cage, in which sat a gorgeous parrot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“If that man is seen in here again, arrest him and put him in a cage.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It landed on metal trays under their cages . . . ping, ping, ping. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I would still be a chicken in a cage,” Grandma said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The cages, as Basta had called them, kept ready by Capricorn for unwelcome guests were behind the church, in a paved area where trash containers stood next to mountains of building rubble. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Downy feathers from their soft chests stuck between the bars of the cages. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I came home from work, that was where I found you all, gathered around Pretty Boy’s cage, crying.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I strut around my cage feeling victorious anyway. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I couldn’t carry it anywhere, for once my head was in the cage, it wouldn’t come out again. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Semele went into the inside of the caravan and unhooked the cage from its chain. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped and watched the man at the gorilla cage while Mr. Pignati and John went on to the next one, which was Bobo’s. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like Maya Angelou’s caged bird being released, flying past the jungle, past the ghetto, and up, up to the heavens. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Two men were housed in the iron cage next to City Hall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That little yellow bird. In the cage in the janitor’s office.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And yet there was such color and sound, such life: wren men with their caged birds, dream men blowing colored dust, children with their shoe harps making music just by running. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was lifted from the cage and felt the plastic collar clipped around my neck. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This bird, which usually sang in the morning, became mute, and as this surprised him, he went up to the cage and looked inside. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie carefully positioned the water bottle in the wire cage, aimed the spout into the base of the funnel, then unscrewed the bottle cap. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Gita, my bird, it’s for their sake. What if Piscine had stuck his hand through the bars of the cage one day to touch the pretty orange fur? Better a goat than him, no?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moment they transformed, the Nightbeast lay down in the cage Thorn had made, looking at Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A smell came to my nose, a musky smell of urine, quite sharp, what every cat cage in a zoo smells of. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived, we discovered that the state had erected an enormous wire cage for us to sit in. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Ephialtes laughed as he pushed buttons on his control board, cranking the conveyor belts into high gear and opening random animal cages. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Feathers litter the floor under his cage, and he refuses to return to it even after a generous forty-five minutes of head time. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cage mates hushed him and even nudged him with their feet, but he took no notice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Clancy was still stalking across the room like a caged panther, the muscles of his back rippling with each spray of gunfire. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Some one rapped on the cage with an iron bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But today she hurried even when looking over the monkey cages stacked higher than her head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lions and tigers in heated cages, the bears asleep, the snakes coiled tightly underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow night, as soon as Dr. Schultz and the others leave, we’ll open your cages, and you can follow the thread with us to get out. After that you’re on your own.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My belly growled and grumbled in its cage. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a cage, but half of its bottom was a trapdoor, neatly mounted on hinges. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom had fallen out of the wooden cage, and its bars were crumbling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He casts nervous glances upward at the additional chairs and the round iron cages suspended by nothing but fraying ribbon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Having watched Chester undo the lock on Bunnicula’s cage and having participated in that unfortunate steak episode some days earlier, I knew I would have no problem getting Bunnicula out. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The monkey workers had stopped cleaning the cages, because they did not want to go into the monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over toward the cage, and there on the other side of the window was a pathetic tabby face looking in. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pushed the cage into a dark corner and tried to make it look like a natural part of the junk stored back there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After I leave the box and step back into my cage, I get an idea, a good one. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

"I wish I could send them all. They hate being caged." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Madame Semele bent down and pulled a wooden cage from the cluttered space beneath her bed, and she took the blinking dormouse from her pocket and placed it into the cage. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

In one room there are glass cages with snakes in them, snakes bigger than any we’ve ever seen before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sorry old rage, in your Sorry old cage. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I hit the wall until my shoulder aches, screaming for help, watching the water rise to my waist, my rib cage, my chest. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Moreau and the chair vanish and a different scene emerges inside the cage—a fancy living room with plush chairs and a large fireplace. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He could no longer recall what the sky looked like through hexagons of cage wire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They wielded blades called hreshtek, sharp enough to slice a man off his shadow, and kept scorpions in brass cages hooked to their belts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, he had no idea what the Count was bringing with him into the giant cage. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was shouting about regulations and how idiots had been killed climbing into cages and how we all had to leave immediately. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He crept out of the cage and examined the remains of the money. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other men in the cage, all of whom had finally found some rest during the night, woke one by one, and stood to stretch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Is who the hell let you out of your cages?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The only real things are the cages and the mice and the lab equipment here on the fourth floor of the main building. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she heard the first news of Siddhartha’s disappearance, she went to the window where she kept a rare songbird in a golden cage. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a time the roads were endangered by a fantastic creature, half man and half ape, that a traveller to the West had captured and brought back to China in a cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma recounted the whole story: how Miss Peregrine was kidnapped by Golan, how she nearly drowned in her cage in the ocean, how we’d rescued her from a submarine piloted by wights. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Todd would later insist that he had been a spy, a plant—meant to glean information from the Syrians in the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They sat in their cage, alone and without light. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At home, I set the hamster cage on a newspaper-covered card table in my room. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was dinner for her, too—breadcrumbs, cheese, and bits of carrot—on the floor of the cage, along with a small bowl of water. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed in the room for a while, running back and forth across the cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’ve got all that, why did you want to sleep on the two dollar bills in the cricket cage?” asked Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere seemed unbreathable, and even the birds fell silent in their cages. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owner of the ape-man finally recaptured it by luring it back into its cage with cooked pork and wine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making a cage out of thin trees, the brother carried this to a lonely place where lions liked to walk. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I told you, I’ll kill them,” he said, drawing the cage to his chest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She slips a piece of paper into my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

There were little chimps in tiny, tiny cages. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moreau waves his hands and the scene inside the cage changes again. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ashamed that he had been handcuffed, stripped, caged, treated like an animal. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One bank of cages contained two isolated monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s heart felt like it was tumbling down her rib cage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was on his right side, just below his rib cage, about the size of a half crown. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lions and tigers in heated cages, the bears asleep, the snakes coiled tightly underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he crossed the room to Hedwig’s cage and tipped the soggy vegetables at the bottom of the bowl into her empty food tray. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Any time of day you can hear the parrots chattering in their cages. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others appeared nervous, flittering around like caged birds. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I feel like a fish in a wire cage rather than a tank. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When they—Julie—put on a glove and went to pick him up, he submitted meekly enough, and in a short time he was back in his cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cage was nearer; it was closing in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But I can’t help seeing a cage for what it is. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The owl was a baby that couldn’t fly right when we found it, so Leah made it a cage and fed it bugs and some meat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I picked up Toby’s cage and my extra coat and I climbed out from behind the shed. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He opened one of the cupboard’s creaking doors: It had already been used as a hiding place for something in a cage that had long since died; its skeleton had five legs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But because two handlers were strolling up the center aisle between the rows of cages. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It can’t seem so without Marmee and little Pip,” sighed Beth, glancing with full eyes at the empty cage above her head. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the sound of barking dogs to the back of the building, where cages were lined up. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a white plastic bucket full of kernels near the cage. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Nothing makes me hungrier than people talking about food, and my stomach is already growling like it belongs in a cage. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Alas, the cage, no matter how spacious of an abode, would not constitute a community and would be utterly merciless. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the cheetah was following us along the side of the cage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

More cages snapped off their chains, unleashing two zebras and a pack of hyenas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It would move as a caged panther might: because it was awake, out of boredom, for the sake of movement itself, or for no reason at all, and with no awareness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I run to my room, slamming my bedroom door so hard Nutmeg and Cinnamon dart to the far corner of their cage. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the cages was a mynah bird that had been blinded to make it sing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here the grass was almost as tall as he was, rising up all around him, a shimmering green cage. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She tried to wriggle free, but his arms circled her waist and tightened like an iron band around her rib cage. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The eldest Baudelaire orphan was about to grab her sister’s cage and begin her descent when she saw something that made her stop. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the cage, the other shamblers are going wild, throwing themselves against the bars in an attempt get a bite of their own. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Fred rose up on his hind legs and hopped around the cage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it’s as if a cage has been unlocked and all of these tears I’ve had stored up inside fall down my cheeks. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Looking at it, Zeitoun realized that it was not one long cage, but a series of smaller, divided cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

You’d fill up the sack and bring it in an’ put it in the rabbit cages.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the cage, I realized that was precisely what I would have to do. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or caged you up before you started to show. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he couldn’t stop thinking about those cages. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Grandpa bent down to put a finger in the cage, and Goldilocks instantly pecked at it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“He avoids leaving the cages indoors overnight. His captured fairies spend at least part of every night outdoors.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was told they could stand in the middle of the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then he went back the way he came, pausing to make a chit-chit-chit sound at one of the cages he passed, and closed the door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding as he unlocked the cage door with his paw. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

All around were great big cages divided up by thick, green, iron bars. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby is watching me from between the bars of her cage, and this box is the way out. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She tipped the spout into each cage and poured a trail of gas through the room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The cages had elaborate bolts on the doors to prevent fiddling by primate fingers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma sat stiffly in one of the cushioned chairs with her purse in her lap, her body closed in on itself like a cage. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But evidence of the deadly presence of the chemicals was obtained by placing test goldfish in cages in the river; they were dead within a day. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The chickens kept asking me how I’d gotten out of my cage. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She and Jaime used to dare each other to climb into their cage, and once she worked up enough courage to slip her hand between two bars and touch one of the great tawny beasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Does he have to go in a cage? It reminds me of jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I feel her rib cage expand and retract. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We stood apart in a knot and watched them strap on their lamps and gather their tools, and then a bell would ring, a warning to get in the cage. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Genie glanced warily at his grandfather, then went from cage to cage. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And in the next moment, he was out in the dark, quiet street, heaving his heavy trunk behind him, Hedwig’s cage under his arm. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The cage was locked, the doors clanged shut, and the lights went out. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like a caged beast finally allowed to hunt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She followed Mama’s lead around cages of white pygmy elephants, chimpanzees, a pair of giraffes grazing quietly in their paddock. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The elevator was not much more than a wire cage, and as it slowly ascended, I could see the beautiful blue Atlantic Ocean just a stone s throw away. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went into the garden and I found Toby’s cage behind the shed and I brought it inside and I cleaned it and put Toby back in it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I may be wrong but I thought I saw a flicker of movement from the cage. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brightbill tried to squirm away, but thick fingers locked around him like a cage. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I asked for Mr. Ferro, the men at the machines waved me back to his office, a windowed cage overlooking the shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the torture was done, when the albino had finished tending his slashes or burns or breaks, when he was alone in the giant cage, he sent his brain to Buttercup, and there it dwelled. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dad felt good for the rest of the trip, and even managed to convince Martha of the wisdom of throwing the empty, but still smelly, bird cage over the side of the ship. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crescent of weather-beaten bird cages, the rusted chairs left on the back porch, the sound of birds cawing and flapping around—it was all kinda freaking Genie out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One by one they .opened the bird cages, and the sky filled with parakeets, canaries, lovebirds, and finches, which flew around in circles, blinded by their sudden freedom, and finally took off in every direction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turned at the corner where a tall stack of rabbit hutches butted against a stack of dove cages. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I lie in my cage, with Bob on my stomach. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You’ll look like an idiot either way. Matt, she’ll rip the sweetness out of you, right through your rib cage. You’ll never be able to squeeze it back in there. Look at him mope now.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy did not want to take Herky out of his cage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the cage and let them out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The coins in my caged fist rattled like magic bullets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The space behind his rib cage flared with that old familiar heat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Jon could hear the creak of chains as the winch cage swung and scraped against the ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were two lifts, or cages as they were sometimes called, side by side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you tried to shoot the monkey, you’d be firing into the cages, and the bullet could hit a cage or a wall and might ricochet inside the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chester leaned his black little head up against the bars of the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ay! There’s some of the birds flown from the cages. The guns have been going since dark, about. You’ll hear one presently.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

No. His friends didn’t smell like heavily perfumed monkey cages. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The two trusties lifted and tilted the heavy cage, while three officers yanked Joe's chair with a violent pull that finally dislodged it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I’m scared of you because you have that little knife? I —” But she stopped, because the man swung the knife, not toward her, but toward the two screeching babies in the cage. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The younger and smaller cub, still lacking a name, spent the night alone in his cage, in the city menagerie where he was to live. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now Harry opened his eyes a fraction, and saw Voldemort striding in front of them, wearing the great snake Nagini around his shoulders, now free of her enchanted cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s...um...great,” I said as Miles grabbed my leg and pulled it over his, shifting my weight off his rib cage. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"Pretty bird," Jay says to himself, waddling into this cage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He told them that he was a reporter from the Netherlands, and that his friend had been held overnight at the station in one of the cages, and had just been released. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Babu stepped up to the trapdoor between the cages and started pulling it open. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Julius followed him through the maze of tunnels, glancing to left and right as the lantern lit the cages they passed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The court ladies, with their bright plumage and twittering voices, were like so many birds in a gilded cage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

From their starting blocks to their jumping standards to their landing systems and cages and hurdles and bleachers, their equipment totally puts Liberty High to shame. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the gate and down the hill, I knew the lions were pacing in their cages. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said they should have put ’em all in separate cages. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“On the ship. You were bound and in cages.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby waited a few minutes until she was sure they were really gone and until her eyes adjusted so she could see the bars of her cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there watching for several minutes while more officers got involved in an increasingly elaborate effort to dislodge Joe's wheelchair from the tight cage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The other three detainees in the young man’s cage were visibly annoyed by him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She had not the heart to eat the food that lay on the cage floor. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The floor of their cage was littered with pieces of popcorn and gum wrappers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched in horror as a forklift zipped into the room, picked up a cage with a beautiful white pegasus, and sped away while the horse whinnied in protest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Phineas boldly led us toward the white boys and the baboon cage while the others slunk away. shrieked one white boy, and his mates roared with laughter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found him at four thirty in the morning when I came back to the lab after wandering around down at the waterfront—on his side, stretched out in the corner of his cage. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, it protects the bulb, but maybe if people weren’t so careless, then nothing would need to be caged. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cricket took a downhearted leap into the cage and settled himself for whatever might come. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, moving quietly, she crept to the back of the cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he had parked his truck on the roof of the Van Ness Pet Hospital, he quickly carried the plastic cage containing the inert false cat downstairs to Hannibal Sloat’s office. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t just sit here, watching the trains, I’m too jittery, my heartbeat feels like a flutter in my chest, like a bird trying to get out of a cage. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

You fitted a syringe into the socket, and you slid the pole into the cage and gave the monkey a shot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart knocks so furiously against the cage of her chest that she feels certain the man below will hear it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She paused only a while in front of the ducks, which honked madly, the down flying as some passer-by bumped into their cages. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, my host lets the bird out of its cage and it flies directly at my face. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise vibrates in my rib cage, it is so loud, and then the scarred man and his two companions begin to walk with slow, careful movements toward me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” I say, my arms tightening into my rib cage. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The noise of rumbling carts laden with creaking cages and barrels of goods, the smells of raw fish and flesh, and the cries of sailors and merchants overwhelmed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In one cage two large, middle-aged gentlemen in top-hats and striped trousers were prowling up and down, anxiously gazing through the bars as though they were waiting for something. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“The hellhound is still in the arena. It won’t let anyone approach. I did not have the heart to force it into a cage ... or destroy it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I followed him up the side of the cage to the shelf above. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cage was so small that when they tried to remove Joe's wheelchair, the spokes on the chair got caught on the cage, and they couldn't budge it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His story must have been lurking inside him, caged by his silence, even though the marks of it were all over him: the scars at his throat, at his back and chest and arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d steer well away from that cage if I was you,” said another voice—a Gypsy’s. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I gnawed at the vitamin until it stopped looking so huge, and the cage got smaller, and then suddenly, hang! The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since the satellite TV was up again, Coach Hedge was in his cabin happily catching up on his mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ron buckled as something huge and orange came soaring from the top of the highest cage, landed on his head, and then propelled itself, spitting madly, at Scabbers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Almost six months,” Maya said, and for the first time, she looked almost relaxed, not like a lab rat in a cage, waiting to see what would happen next. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet even suggested capturing what was stealing the seeds by setting up a steel cage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever the Jaaxes were assigned to a different Army post, the animals moved with them in boxes and cages, a portable ecosystem of the Jaax family. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless the cage was removed forthwith, he announced, the entire defense team would walk out of court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel so useless. You’ve caged me in with hundreds of material objects that don’t satisfy the real me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, trying to get his heartbeat back under control, tried to put the tiger back in its cage. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of a cage. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are further caged behind a fencelike wall between us and the driver and the guards, with their pair of shotguns. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards would leap up, remove a man, put him in a new cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When they had been caged with Todd and Ronnie, it seemed possible that the charges against them—whenever they were actually leveled—might be limited to looting. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He sprung one of his nails out of the pad of his right forepaw and lifted the latch of the gate to the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rani is so excited she tells me to hang Jay's cage on the tree, and then she helps me climb onto what she says are low branches, though it's higher than I've ever climbed before. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“It is likely meant to make us think we are not caged,” Celia says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Amongst the hustle and bustle, two large cages rattle on top of two laden trolleys. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Then it rolled forward on its tank treads, across the bunker floor, to the armory cage at its opposite end. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We went up to the 5th floor to another room with lots of cages and animils they had monkys and some mouses. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ron lifted Scabbers out of his inside pocket and placed him next to the cage of his fellow rats, who stopped their skipping tricks and scuffled to the wire for a better look. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As the monster barreled past, I drove the broken horn straight into his side, right up under his furry rib cage. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Harry walked across the dark room, past Hedwig’s large, empty cage, to the open window. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I stood up to fight but tripped on a tomato cage. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As a sort of test, he had agreed to set up a cage with a few pairs of the rodents, imitating on a reduced scale the enterprise under consideration. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents must have been captured, once, held in iron cages above seething fire pits while their enemies gibbered around them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Park's mom could wear Eleanor's rib cage like a roomy vest. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She fell stunned, and the President broke free and hauled himself bleeding into the cage, dragging the door shut after him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that was Billy’s. A noisy yellow canary that was eaten by a kestrel when we hung her cage outside one afternoon. It made the local paper. Luckily we’d already done the recordings.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then he bowed again and strode forward to unlock our cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

This, in brief, is how the system works: the War on Drugs is a vehicle through which extraordinary numbers of black men are forced into the cage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mario made a pile of old magazines and put the cricket cage on top of them so everyone could see better and hear more clearly. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On all sides he could see only the dark, slender silhouettes of trees, as if he were in a vast cage. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a one-minute irradiation at low power, the machine was stopped and the cage opened. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A man with a parrot in a cage was turned away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He just wants to give us some hands-on experience,” said Hermione, immobilizing two pixies at once with a clever Freezing Charm and stuffing them back into their cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When the staff proposed turning the cage on its side, he moaned audibly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was altogether pleasant, but I never forgot that it was a gilded cage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we stepped in, he loped up to the bars of his cage and set off a full-throated snarl, ears flat against his skull and round eyes fixed on Babu. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anne’s cage was the secret annex she and her family hid in, and the attic where she spent most of her time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

With that help, the chaos that had brought him to this cage would be reined in and the misunderstanding manifested here would be mitigated. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I can tell from the size and shape that it’s a shambler’s cage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t her favorite, especially since she could use a weapon and didn’t need to be relegated to being stuck in a cage. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The lower parts of the cage were painted red and green, but the spire was golden. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart slammed against my rib cage and saliva pooled in my mouth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Violet and Klaus looked at each other, and then at Sunny, still dangling in her cage, and followed Count Olaf out the door. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

That’s why black prisoners become Muslims so fast when Elijah Muhammad’s teachings filter into their cages by way of other Muslim convicts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man cleaning the gorilla cage shut off the water and started to roll up the hose when he heard Mr. Pignati calling. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She shut it in a drawer, got dressed and went out to get the cage. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards alternated between the pepper spray and the beanbag gun, shooting the men and women in the cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The passageway opens up into a trio of cages. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Below, in the cells, corridors, and cages under the innocently raked sand, all was purposeful bustle and organized activity. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Not when a whole country full of goons puts her in a cage. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In half an hour she admitted defeat, at least for the moment, and climbed back down to the bottom of the cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large, barred cage, like the elephant's cage at the zoo. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That day, as the rickety cage elevator surfaced, a group of soot-covered faces emerged, only to be replaced by a waiting group of men ready to go below. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I have been thinking of plans, but we are in a metal cage, and this tent is surrounded by agents of the Order. I do not think we shall escape.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

An empty parrot cage, a mangle, a towering dresser, a scythe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Being restricted to an orphanage had been bad enough; she couldn’t imagine being locked in a cage with who knew what kind of actual criminals. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If either man had been standing against the cage, his belly would have been ripped open. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She’s been locked away like some caged animal for more than half my life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And just like that, after giving that clarification, one by one she could take the guests from their cages. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lab chimps stare out from behind the bars of a cage. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When his screaming got too pathetic to bear, our grim-faced mother brought in his cage and set it on the floor by the window, where Methuselah continued his loud, random commentary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of ravens rose from inside the walls when,they climbed through the broken gate, and the caged ravens in their wagons called out to them with quarks and raucous shrieks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were simply cages and the pavement beneath them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dad knows that my teeth must be showing, that I am as fierce as anything in any cage at the Brookfield Zoo. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves in this room were stacked with cages containing live animals. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the cage trap sat empty where the traditional group should have been growing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Every inch of wall was hidden by cages. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re a caged bird here, Ghalib—this camp clipped your wings. You have much to offer the world. Go and fly.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

"But she's very dangerous. Being in this school is like being in a cage with a cobra. You have to be very fast on your feet." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t clean the cage with them in it,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were two knives: the smaller, a hatchet-bladed cleaver, heavy and hard, for cutting through the rib cage, for jointing and segmenting; the other a long, daggerlike blade, for cutting out the heart. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He threw a knee into my rib cage. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker scrambled through the gate into the cage and pranced all around inside it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts her shirt up to the top of her rib cage and motions to Francis where she wants the tattoo. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She crawled to the opposite side of the nook, in the corner of her latest cage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When I place all the pieces on the floor of my cage side by side, the cement is almost completely covered. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re not the only one who wishes to gawk and gape at our resident caged animal. I am considering charging admission.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was the fear of the goat, released in the tiger’s cage, when the tiger first looks up from its paws, begins to growl. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One morning she saw her grandmother opening the bird cages with inexplicable joy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, after Papa had shut up the newsstand, Chester was hanging through the gilded bars of his cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lived in her own room, learned to sneak around, learned how to carry small stuff between her arms and her rib cage. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I draw it, I’m going to make my skin see-through and what you’ll see is that all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the ceiling, and I heard Erik pacing back and forth, back and forth, in the cage that he had made for himself. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was banging its tiny arms against the cage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The caged flowers blew with faint sighs of warning. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the cow moves, its huge rib cage shifts between my legs, and my heels slide over the ribs like fingers over piano keys. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two young men stood in each of the first two cages. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then they opened a small door in each cage and thrust the food through on pronged forks. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“These are old but Nightbeasts won’t care. They love these things. I got them when the Nightbeast rumors started to see if I could lure it into a makeshift cage I made, but...” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I start to slow-jog, and when I reach the left-field line, I keep going straight and run until I reach the batting cages. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Precisement! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could watch them, looking down; but if she retreated to the far side of the cage, they could not see her, nor she them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fathom how a bear had gotten into the cage, only that I needed to get away from it, so I pressed myself hard against the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They didn’t bother removing the prisoners from their cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her cage was nicer than mine, but it was still a cage. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t noticed before, but far more animals were out of their cages tonight, and the grounds did look like they’d gotten an extra bit of grooming. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The man remained where he was, in an unsanctioned part of the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

However, reflexively, he opened the cage and tugged the false animal out. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now that most of the chatter has died down, the professor has moved across to the cage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted to go and stand near the cage for a better view, but decided against it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised the latch on the cage and opened the door. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Clenching my jaw, I dig my hands under Glimmer's body, get a hold on what must be her rib cage, and force her onto her stomach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Right on cue, the horse slammed his head against the cage door. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She starts to leave, then runs back to my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe all the cages are empty except for a handful of birds, a small rodent or two, a couple of clams and snails. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Quite a bizarre place,” Inigo said, moving past several large cages in which were cheetahs and hummingbirds and other swift things. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gilgamesh stood on the first tier of the ziggurat, surrounded by a crackling cage of electricity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And inside that cage was a small bird, like none Hazel had ever seen, as gleaming white as the feathers of the swanskin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I went into my room and I picked up Toby’s cage. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner cage two tom cats started an argument and the whole cageful commented with growls and arched backs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the dragging shuffle of someone pacing in a tiny cage. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She plopped me into the cage and closed the door. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They got Jose down there in the Chamisa V. cage hanging by fishhooks stuck in his ears and attached to the ceiling.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cracked yellow walls were lined with electric lights in wire cages, posters for old shows, and photographs of actors who had appeared in the theatre over the years. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The tunnel spiraled gently downward, the ceiling supported by white stone arches that reminded Frank of a whale’s rib cage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Arya withdrew a little deeper into the shadows, and watched as a huge black bear rolled by, caged in the back of a wagon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She told Mini about the cage full of godly mounts. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hazel did not know how long she crouched there, while the bird skittered about the cage and outside the boy chopped wood. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The animals in the comer cage started squealing. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That much had been clear even when she was caged. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Butterflies open and close their wings, exposing their dress's inner rib cage. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

All I could think about was reaching the cage before it disappeared beneath the waves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Being trapped in a tiny cage with six other birds goes against every natural instinct of a chicken. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Why were they coming in now, before the tigers had gone back to their cages? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I toss carrot bits into the cage, and a shaving-flying scuffle breaks out, finally settling into happy chortling and chewing sounds. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chester was allowed out of the cage, and no further questions were asked. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pitch-black everywhere, like Moreau’s cage is floating in an ocean of shadow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And when I came up to the cage to see these ugly bloodsucking creatures, I had to look right into this little kid’s face that had a smirk on it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He keeps to the educational room, and the outside cages and paths. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Zlata’s cage was the basement she had to use for shelter, away from bombs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We wert walking through the fair, and something inside my rib cage began to stir. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Diamond Joe, Clive, and a handful of cage hands head up to the second section of the train to deal with the animals in dens. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A biologically sound zoo enclosure—whether cage, pit, moated island, corral, terrarium, aviary or aquarium—is just another territory, peculiar only in its size and in its proximity to human territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the prisoner trusties suggested lifting the cage and tilting it slightly, which everyone agreed to try. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was so excited that my flower exploded, the petals bursting through the wires like thick tentacles, knocking my sisters' cages to the floor, and stretching between us like an octopus creature. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Harry’s trunk was packed; Hedwig was back in her cage on top of it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A moment later we heard the footsteps of an invisible boy pounding up the ramp outside our cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

If two dominant male monkeys are placed in the same cage, only one monkey will leave the cage alive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seen all them animals out of their cages and keeping real still. Is that man magic?” she asked. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bright light attached to the camera, and being viewed that way, in the glare of a floodlight and shown to the world as a criminal in a cage, made Zeitoun furious. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was charged with looting and put in the cages behind the bus station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They had rabbits at school, in cages, fat, and white, with pink, vacant eyes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Then they started to dash at the cage, shaking the thin wooden bars with their great weight. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like you said something about a cage.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cheetahs usually refuse to carry out that elaborate courtship ritual inside a cage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Agile as Gwin, Farid jumped down from the rostrum and ran over to the cage, without once taking his eyes off the Shadow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Suspended from the ceiling were cages of live animals—a lion, several zebras, a whole pack of hyenas, and even an eight-headed hydra. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The snake had once escaped from his cage and disappeared for a few days. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment Burt took the cage for his demonstration. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, Elinor and Teresa kept as far away from him as they could in the same cage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She led the way up the ramp and into the cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dragon, who had been admitted after she was safely caged, had eaten his bowl of catfood greedily, sleeping powder and all, purring as he licked the last scraps from the bottom. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Leaving you alone, but for four cage slaves who were fast asleep.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As if the book were some caged beast. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was deeply suspicious, still trying to parse how this man had ended up in their cage, and what his intentions might be. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mahisha started pacing to and fro against the limits of his cage. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That cage was my home for a long time. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He gently took a bat out of the little wooden cage. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stuffed the Half-Blood Prince’s book behind the cage and slammed the door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Some were leaning over the long bar that separated them from the cages, some were standing on the seats that rose in tiers opposite. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I slid the two cages together, held them tightly against each other, and opened the two doors. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The variety of noises—screeching monkeys in cages and vendors loudly proclaiming their goods from the side of the road—made her head throb. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures were surrounding something that lay glittering in the mud: something slightly taller than they were, which lay on its side, a large cage, perhaps, with walls of crystal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The mouse feeder tells us that if you put a strange mouse into one of their cages, one with the wrong, alien scent, they will bite it to death. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured her visiting him, and not being able to touch him because of an unbreakable window, and I imagined her wanting to unlock his cage, knowing she couldn’t. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This ... is how we say . . . good-bye . He breathed softly, in and out, I could feel his rib- cage rise and fall. Then he looked right at me. “Love . . . you,” he rasped. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that instant two gypsies put the snake-man into his cage and carried him into the tent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In addition to its symbolic effect, the cage cut us off from communication with our lawyers, who were not permitted to enter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy took Chester out of the cricket cage, balancing him on one finger. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, could you sleep?” the Count asked the next night upon his arrival in the cage. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The doves in the cage above him stir with a soft fluttering of feathers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We will not. Only open our cages when you go, and we will make our own way. We won’t even stay with you, if you prefer.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sai Fong put the cricket cage in the middle of the table and then went back and forth to the stove, bringing over steaming bowls of Chinese food. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cages around the doves and the clock begin to quiver. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They can’t hurt it, because of the wire cage, but Ms. Warner still feels duty-bound to stop them. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thoughts kept hurtling through my head like frenzied squirrels in a new-forged cage. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in a cage, being viewed, gaped at, seen as visitors to the 200 see exotic animals—kangaroos and baboons. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The ape-man could reach out and touch the thin leaves that shaded its cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya wants me to go back to my glass cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He came behind me into the reception room where the birds flamed in the cage, their squawks like screams in a nightmare. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle smiled as he let his nephews out of the cage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We set it down in the wooden wagon Ali built Hassan last win­ter for his birthday, pretend it’s a giant steel cage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Trashman was driven away from the fruit trees, he ripped open the Doberman cage to get at the steaks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Con was asleep in his bedroll on the other side of the low-burning fire, and the trees arched above in a rib cage of bare branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But our end held only rows of cages on shelves, each cage with a tag on it, and each separated from its neighbors by wooden partitions on both sides. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Can anyone fathom the workings of a drunken man’s mind? All I can tell you is what happened. The animals were out of their cages.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy stood looking down at the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These cages don’t tell me much,” Sam said to the dog. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The antelope and the lion burst out of their cages and went off together into the streets. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Think you can steal the key for us?” said Emma, rattling the cage’s locked door. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Occasionally,” Hector says, inspecting the clock as it turns within its cage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up my guardian kept one in a cage. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Farmers developed techniques such as locking animals inside pens and cages, bridling them in harnesses and leashes, training them with whips and cattle prods, and mutilating them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some three thousand carved pieces of sugar stood on that table, showing every step of her trip, down to carved sugar birds in sugar cages and sugar elephants on parade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He put the cup back, then dropped the seeds one at a time into Michael Jackson’s cage. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The chimps are put into tiny cages, often by themselves, with nothing soft to sit on, nothing to play with, and no one to comfort and love them when they are hurt. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could slip away now, without him noticing me; he wouldn't hear me over the din, But the night air's so sweet, I can't bear returning to that stuffy cage of a room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the cages were patches of dirt surrounded by iron bars, with forlorn gorillas or restless bears or irritable monkeys or anxious gazelles huddled in the corners. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew there were snakes in the cages as well. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’m a little too skinny—I can see the bones of my rib cage if I suck in my breath. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He could see a cage full of squealing rats. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sentries verified the requisition and stepped aside, permitting SD-03 to roll into the cage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wait till the coast is clear and tuck the cash between my left arm and my rib cage, hidden by a layer of non- reflective flesh. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kinzie had made sure she could break her bonds easily, but she’d still be empty-handed against three trained warriors, and she had to act before they put her in a cage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had seen that cabinet many times when my cage was carried past it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I almost felt bad letting the unruly pirates out, but I guessed they deserved something more entertaining than the exercise wheel after being cooped up in a cage for three centuries. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that Chester was in his cage, though, and decided that it would be best to keep quiet until Mama’s outburst of grief had subsided. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Chester, “but I’m not so keen on staying in a cage. I’m more used to tree stumps and holes in the ground. It makes me sort of nervous to be locked in here.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candlelight that served to illuminate the cage made the albino seem totally like a creature who had never seen the sun. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He felt forward with his right hand and found himself touching the man’s chest, where the heart was beating like a bird against the bars of a cage. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went through the room from cage to cage, hitting all the monkeys with the drug. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed the cage in a slot against a wall, slid open the end, opened a matching door in the wall—and I was free. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the cage, the men had few options: they could stand in the center, they could sit on the cement, or they could lean against the steel rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A red bulb covered by a wired cage hung above it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

On its first level were big wooden doors over which had been set an open space, caged in with metal bars. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“More like looking out of a shark cage.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

How is it possible to have no visible cage around you, but to be so trapped? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I cowered to the back of the cage, which was just what he expected me to do; one hand pressed me flat against the wire wall; then his fingers gripped my shoulders. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then there is a huge and thunderous boom, one that makes her rib cage rattle and shreds her nerves. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He summoned two officers, who went to Joe's cage to unlock it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hazel dashed over to Arion’s cage and swiped an Amazon card across the lock. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There is no way you can train mice inside a cage. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And anyway, I wanted to watch wild animals, not animals in cages. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She unlocked the door and slid it up until the cage gaped wide open. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was her humanity externalized, and all her longing—for freedom, from disgust, from the confines of her metal cage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I stepped into the clearing, my heart felt like it was trying to beat its way out of my rib cage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She watched as he was put back in his cage and wheeled away. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They lure you in with the promise of a sweet, fast dog with a cartoon rib cage, but you should just drop the “hound” part of the Greyhound Bus equation. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Just before he fell asleep, he heard Tucker Mouse sighing happily in the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paced between the cages as Baba Joseph did between the men and women of the Vapostori. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx was relieved when Ned finally emerged from the elevator cage with the Italian crew. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He mixed flies from two “races” in the same cage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mainly he had learned that he could, occasionally at least, jump from his cage and wander around without incurring any anger or injury. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"It means we’re going to shut you two pretty birds in one of our cages overnight," said Basta, prodding them roughly in the back with his shotgun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

What happens here, at least, is that there’s a big room with a lot of wire cages in it, all different sizes for different kinds of poultry. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He drove home every sentence with another shake of the cage. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There was a loud scraping and puffing from behind them, and Stan and Ern appeared, carrying Harry’s trunk and Hedwig’s cage and looking around excitedly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn obliged, reaching through the cage to grab the boy’s arms, then pulling him off his feet and up against the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Kamala kept a small rare songbird in a small golden cage. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put him back into his cage and watched him until the stupor wore off and he began to move around normally. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She started toward a small, distant cage, in the center of which jutted up a branching dead tree. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They remained healthy and bored, having sat in their cages in the cave for weeks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the day, a half-dozen more prisoners came through the station and were brought to the cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Though there were blankets over the cages, I could hear the animals stir as I passed by them, the floor creaking beneath my bare and chilled feet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just before we left for Bournemouth, my grandmother had given me, as consolation, a present of two white mice in a little cage and of course I took them with me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He had noticed a big black goat standing squarely in the center of its cage; he moved that way and the salesman accompanied him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My heart thumps against my rib cage like it has wings. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Rather than merely shunting black people to the other side of town or corralling them in ghettos, mass incarceration locks them in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So, one by one, we woke them and showed them how to open their cages. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda staggered back to her own empty house carrying the tall cage in both hands. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Matt Sloan spilled a cage full of balls in the middle of the gym. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And by the way, for the record, I didn’t exactly say “Oh” when Sycorax and Caliban jumped out from the cages. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of the snakes, on a log that had evidently been brought from one of the cages, sat Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

An electric cat: it lay in the plastic dust-proof carrying cage in the rear of the truck and panted erratically. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I found a water jug and refilled their bowls, then used Anaklusmos to drag the mismatched food out of their cages. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They had a nice, loud radio and a cage with a parrot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mom,” said Toby, tugging at his mother’s arm, "look at Bunnicula. How did he get out of his cage? He looks scared.” Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I squinted through the salt spray and saw that the cage had come to rest between what looked like two fins jutting from the monster’s back, one smaller and one larger. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The ones closest to her crept to the bars of their cages, and a few extended their arms, reaching for her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m over by the batting cages watching my teammates get ready for practice. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

"That bunny,” he whispered to me across our food bowls, "got out of his cage last night.” Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I would like to buy a cricket cage, if you have any,” said Mario. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat hammered as the door to the jokomoto’s cage swung open and his head swiveled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A few feet from the queen’s throne, two Amazons guarded a cage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Above the cricket cage, through a grate in the sidewalk, the chirping rose up to the street. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred turned around and around, trying to get comfortable inside his very uncomfortable cage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Will Hamilton liked his glass cage of an office in the garage. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least two always visible, their handlers sure to parade them past the cages in close proximity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When she presses Ivanito to her chest, he can feel her heart jumping like it wants to come out of its cage. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the end of this shelf there’s a big cabinet—they keep the mouse cages in it. It has wire mesh doors. You can climb up and down them like a ladder.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He rose unsteadily, the cage in one hand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

That’s all that was left of the life I’d had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were cages, hundreds of them, stacked like crates. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He waved the net, slammed it around over the cages, but the monkey was gone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cavalry soldier, restless and caged in the tamed and political East, who loves the great plains and the memory of snow. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the tough guy, Dozer, had been placed in a different section of the shelter where they locked up the dogs who snapped at the handlers or bit the bars of their cages. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A rib cage caught the last light of evening. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Hugo sat there like an animal, wet and shivering in the corner of his cage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

As for me, my own caged bird is soon to be released. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never asked for a promise before, because promises are forever, and forever is an unusually long time. Especially when you’re in a cage.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, as dusk was settling over the north, Jon rolled the empty barrels back into the cage and signaled the winch men to lower him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It formed a crude dirt cage around Anya, trapping her where she stood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chiba: “So how could the crew open the cages if they didn’t have the keys?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad calmly put his hand between the iron bars of the cage and rested it on the cheetah’s neck. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Changed into a shambler, locked up in a cage, paraded onstage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Poor Fig was locked in a metal cage, smothered with strange smells, and surrounded by furry howling inmates, while I sat here having breakfast. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The cavernous room was filled with golden cages, round and square and rectangular, some stacked on top of each other, others standing alone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bunnicula was out of his cage on the floor, while Chester stood in front of him, a piece of garlic around his neck and his arms outstretched, blocking the kitchen door. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t remember where we got her because I was so little, but I remember feeding her hay and watching her drink out of the bottle in her cage. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The girl was shaking the keys, causing them to clink together like bells, and Kaede realized they were the keys to the cages. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The oxen were being unharnessed, the carts unloaded, while the Brave Companions clamored for drink and the curious gathered around the caged bear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nancy Jaax and Tony Johnson inspected the monkeys, moving from cage to cage, until they found the two monkeys that had crashed and bled out. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A good zoo,” Stella says, “is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don’t hurt.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The steel tiers lay jumbled; the doors of the cages swung open. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what wasn’t muffled was the cry that came from the exterminator behind me, the sound of a large cage dropping, a scream, and the clicking of clacking teeth. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“But why aren’t you in your cage? Are you always out at night?” said Michael. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t pictured herself confronting him caged and starving, hands bound, dressed in rags. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The mummified heart of Saint O’Toole was kept in a cage on display in Christ Church Cathedral, until someone stole it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sight of Kuda in a cage in a dark airless room made him sick. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lightbulbs inside wire cages lined the walls every ten feet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around, sort of stunned, to look at Mrs. Baker, and I felt the two cages move apart. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A rhinoceros, elephant, panthers, wolves, lions, bears, tigers, monkeys, and dozens of other animals were out of their cages. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It picked up Goldilocks’s cage and flung it against the wall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She thought she had heard Betsy again—that wretched hacking sound that sawed through her rib cage straight into her heart. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I fancied that, should I be discovered, 1 should be caged and tortured like the animals in the experimental chambers, burning compounds applied to my skin, incisions made near my eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We spent most of our time shovelling excrement and rinsing cages and giving feed while Father played the vet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took them to the cage and told them to get into it and sit there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide with wonder and surprise as they lifted him to his feet and dragged him out of the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Harry, now feeling thoroughly miserable, put the empty cage away inside the wardrobe. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I laugh, and then wince, covering his hand to steady my rib cage. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The numbered balls jump around in the cage, then one falls forward. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It took him a few minutes to adjust to the darkness, and as his eyes fixed on the red glow of the corners of his cage, he realized just where he was. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The dead in the cage stop walking for a moment, their yellow eyes fixating on us instead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The strong current was carrying the cage out to sea, and us with it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He set the cage down and took the clay pipe out of his pocket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This bone ship looked like a rib cage, curved bones curling up as it erupted out of the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was a sort of platform near the ground with a cage on it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rahel watched his stomach suck inwards and his rib cage rise as his wet T-shirt peeled away from his skin, leaving it wet and honey- colored. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they checked all the cages, dimmed the lights, locked the doors and went home, leaving us alone in the still laboratory. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A large, round cage set on a wooden base that has been carved into swirling white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Elinor had always thought more of books than their authors, and she looked at the old man without much goodwill as Flatnose led him past their cage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The blacksteel cage kept here was separate from the others, and with good reason. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As his head whips back, I stand and draw my scim, resting the point on his rib cage between the plates of his armor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The iron cage moved downward at the end of its long chain, creaking and rattling, until it finally jerked to a halt a foot above the ground at the base of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had seen diem in a pet-shop window, and when he went inside and put his finger to their cage, one of them had come and licked it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Seth moved from the hen cage to a small piano in the corner of the room. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

One tiny monkey with yellow frames around his eyes pressed against the bars of his cage to watch me take the Pigman’s Wrist. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the man in the cage didn’t understand this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There were cages large enough to contain pools built into the floor, and beings with silvery scales instead of skin swam beneath the surface. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin moves across the cage, sits on the swing where Lark once flew. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We found ourselves in a thick white metal cage that opened into the Medical Records room —an empty, warehouse-sized room with no staff, no patients, no chairs, no visitors, and no medical records. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even though he still held on to his instinctual ways, he was comfortable enough that he ventured around the cage and made quite a bit of noise. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Down my left side, it runs past my rib cage to the top of my pants. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They had tried to bend the cage back into shape, but could not get the door to stay on. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Yet under the frail cage of those shattered ribs, his chest rose and fell with each shallow breath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Much too much of him now feathered the bottom of his cage. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They sat at the backs of their cages, passive and blank faced. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then I had to leave in a hurry, so I forgot your book. I don’t think that birds should be in cages, do you?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

They spun in circles in their cages or cowered in the corners. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon entering, he was physically staggered by a powerful stench emanating from John Lawrence’s mouse cages. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Patti's words remind me of what Rani said about Jay's cage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I try to ram myself through my underwater cage, but I can’t—and then I realize it’s because I have no more oxygen left. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Michael S. Egan, the founder of Alamo Rent- a-Car, built his own baseball field, complete with a batting cage and stands. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers kept searching the camp, but now they left our cage alone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I said, and jumped back from the cages. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She moves to the mirror, admiring the image of the pistol-wielding, gum-chewing girl that fills the small space above her hip and below her rib cage. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If I let him be pulled off me, the cage was right back where he’d go. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

After they had sniffed at the cage, the lions began to roar. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Even the cages of chickens went into the wagons, one in each. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These animals, in turn, were being jammed together in cages, exposed to one another, passing viruses back and forth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up one street, and down another, through the endless labyrinth, hurling myself against the neon cage of the city. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her silver hair is piled atop her head and held in place with a small jeweled black cage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before appearing in public with Toscanini, however, Shirley had first to spruce up his cage. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The mental movie of a mouse cowering in the corner of a cage that has another mouse in it gets chunked into “social avoidance.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

An innocent boy is now twelve years of age, and finds himself locked up in a human-sized cage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In a third cage three elderly ladies in raincoats and galoshes were imprisoned. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dad slowly raised his right hand and put it up against the cage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A number of the animals had already died—there were many empty cages in the room—and many of the other animals were obviously sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little bunny had begun to move for the first time since he had been put in his cage. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

She thought he was captivated, like a child looking at a caged lion—except that Capricorn wasn't in a cage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He turns it so she can see the way the workings extend through the entirety of the cage, stretching in all directions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each cage was labeled in some indecipherable scientific jargon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved himself straight to his feet, strode to the porch, and flung open the door of Methuselah’s cage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four men had spent a sleepless night in an outdoor cage and did not have the energy to make much conversation, but this new prisoner more than filled the silence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I realized that Elsinore was for Hamlet, as it was for me, a gilded cage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He held a small cage in one hand, and inside were two flapping birds mashed so close together I could hardly tell one from the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He saw Kamala’s songbird in its cage; he lived it all over again, breathed Samsara, was again old and tired, again felt nausea and the desire to die, again heard the holy Om. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when Shirley thought the ordeal was ended, Señora Rodriguez left the room and returned with a green bird in a cage. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apparently he would like most to have him in a cage and sail into him with a club every morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farid was still trying to get the lock open when they reached the cage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The swirling white air dances around the caged freezer lightbulb, and she pushes me right up against the dappled stainless-steel wall and kisses me with both her hands braided into my hair. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All the while, his arms formed an iron cage of protection around me — I was barely jostled. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rooms contained double banks of monkey cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew that there were children born into these same caged neighborhoods on the Westside, these ghettos, each of which was as planned as any subdivision. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to have my fly cage, Uncle Tom?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But today they came for my birthday—and to cheer me up, they bring along their two yellow songbirds in their cage, Coqueta and El Flaquito, so they’ll sing for everyone at the party. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As we came up the ladder, walking across the grass under the trees, we passed the big, gray painted cages with the bulls in them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Monroe meanwhile had restored Bunnicula to his cage and the cage to the windowsill. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Looking into the room, he noticed that the loose monkey was spending most of its time hiding behind the cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first hours in the cage, Zeitoun’s overriding goal was to be granted a phone call. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Turning her back on the scene, Mom stared into the street as the butcher plunged his hand into a cage toward one very upset white chicken. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was becoming irritated, and I could see that Algernon, upset by the smoke, the buzzing, the unaccustomed surroundings, was moving around in his cage nervously. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the white rats scampered and scrambled in their cages. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the movement that went on outside his square glass cage. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most people are willing to acknowledge the existence of the cage but insist that a door has been left open. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Panting with the exertion of slashing through an old man’s rib cage, Macon ran back to get the blanket the man had been sleeping on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other bank of cages was mostly quiet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never been in there,” I say, “but my dad says the cells are like cages. Each one has a toilet, a sink, a bed and a man.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the last of the riders had disappeared into the trees, Jon Snow rode the winch cage down with Dolorous Edd. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Fflewddur, endeavoring to make friends, put his finger into the cage, the gwythaint roused and slashed at him with its beak. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He came inside the newsstand and sat on the stool so his face was just a few inches away from the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their headmaster came and took them to the lion’s cage. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had three to tend: his own mount, and two packhorses, each bearing a large wire-and- wicker cage full of ravens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I will permit him to keep them in his room as long as they are never allowed out of the cage. How's that?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The four men didn’t know what would happen to them, but they knew they would spend the night in the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The man gestures to poor, dumb Othello who hasn’t left his spot near the cage, and I can’t hold my tongue any longer. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Tucker jumped out from under his blanket of dollar bills and ran around the cage shouting, “Help! Fire! Murder! Police!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animal had bolted past Sergeant Amen as he opened the cage, and the sergeants had immediately run out of the room and shut the door behind them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an oblong wire cage with a handle on top for carrying it by. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For a moment Meggie was relieved that he hadn't really meant a cage, although the door in the blank wall looked anything but inviting. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And that evening, while he was playing, a brown leaf, the first leaf of the fall, blew into the station and landed right next to the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He resides in a remarkable bamboo cage as tall as Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I took Toby out of his cage and put him into the pocket of one of my coats because the cage was very heavy to carry all the way to London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each splintered bar bent gracefully outward, like the petal of a chrysanthemum, and in the center of the empty cage lay one small golden feather. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They could hear the splashing water and the singing of caged birds and the sweep of the long brooms on the flagstones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared astonished at the cricket cage and then at his mother. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those animals were hunched up, each in its own cage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird, according to the info plaque attached to the cage, had just arrived from a zoo in Cleveland. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the playroom the lightbulbs in cages had already been turned off. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ll put it in Porgy’s cage. I can’t see it in this box. It must be hungry. It was trying to eat Dragon’s food. Dumb mouse. It might have been killed.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rex pauses to rub his mangy coat against the bars at the front of the cage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Although once Penelope could have sworn she heard someone say, “And where are these famous savages, I wonder? Locked in cages no doubt! Anybody seen Ashton? Where the devil can he be?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Nathan felt Pond’s warmth pulsating through his rib cage and even approach his heart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Once dressed, the fake Harrys took rucksacks and owl cages, each containing a stuffed snowy owl, from the second sack. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even locked inside cages, monkeys could really do a job on a room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw no forklifts or heavy machinery; the cages must have been assembled by hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I straightened the broken wing then gently pressed my thumb to its toothpick rib cage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His legs, jammed into the sidecar by Hedwig’s cage and his rucksack, were already sore and starting to go numb. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That night about first dark, he and I lifted the cage onto a wheelbarrow, covered it good with the croker sacks, and wheeled it around the house through the pecan grove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He edged his way from cage to cage, looking into each one, trying to see through it toward the shadowy wall behind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only gesture he had made to the possibility of a journey was to shut his snowy owl, Hedwig, safely in her cage. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ron undid his trunk, pulled out his maroon dress robes, and flung them over Pigwidgeon’s cage to muffle his hooting. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

With a piece of thread he hung it up inside the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ached for the lesson to begin so I could draw and color in those ivory teeth with the purple muscle of the tongue showing between like some fat beast caged inside her mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hugh paced the length of the cage, an agitated bee circling his head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

You herewith mention a cage, but you do not refer to it as merely just that, a cage. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes traveled to the cage, and then back to Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two large cages rattled on top of the laden trolleys the parents were pushing; the owls inside them hooted indignantly, and the redheaded girl trailed tearfully behind her brothers, clutching her father’s arm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He demanded that they free the birds and dismantle the cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Miss Tynmore, the tiny, bright chirping old maid who gave Mama music lessons, was just like the canary whose cage hung in her kitchen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1915 occupation, the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was a low, steel-roofed cage where the whole family would creep and wait, huddled together, from the time when we heard the air-raid warning until the welcome sound of the “All Clear.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clipped to the bars of the cage was a small red light. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Now there are just empty cages, the lonely mirrors glancing back at them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cotton kept following us around saying, “What about this?” and holding up something dumb like a broken hamster cage or an empty paint can. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Raw, red marks and painful bruises are everywhere on his rib cage and back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone came around with a stack of small jars and fastened one to my cage; a little pipe led through the bars like a sipping straw—drinking water. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped in surprise, looking at the cage and the bird within. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was this child that I thought was an omen—a little kid about ten years old who was sitting right up on the railing and leaning against the glass of the bat cage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The voices she had heard came from within those cages. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once, the Dream’s parameters were caged by technology and by the limits of horsepower and wind. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They had backed up another cage into the entrance. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But even as she said the words, a thread of misgiving wrapped around her rib cage and squeezed tight. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Presently, as the keepers passed down the line of cages, a great commotion was heard. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was afraid of being bitten by a monkey if he came too close to a cage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raced over to the cages and swiped a card. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Instead of letting me out in the usual spot,” I say as Grace pulls into the drop-off circle, “can you leave me over there by the batting cages?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He stood and saw that down the line of cages, more prisoners were being sprayed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My rib cage screams as each cough pulls more and more air from my lungs, my eyes starting to water. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He dropped the bill and leaped over to the cricket cage, where Tucker Mouse was sleeping peacefully. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A blackbird in a cage,” I said, flipping my hair the way Jackie flips hers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I leaned way over the wall and tried to see into the cage. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She deserves to be here, caged behind iron bars, trapped in her own jungle, left to stew in the memories. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In all my years of visiting prisons, I had never seen such small cages used to hold a prisoner inside a secure prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The animals in the other cages gave them bored looks, as if to say, I'd kill you, but it would take too much energy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was the wights who’d been hunting us—and here we were inside a cage, unable even to run. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The cage is so small that a single page of a newspaper could cover the floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“How did you get out of the cages?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My chest feels tight, like my ribs are a real cage, squishing my lungs and heart. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was a bird that had voluntarily caged itself. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the other two-legs came and got ready to winch the cage up to the surface. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The President was already stepping over her body to reach the larger cage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every time she sees them, she’ll be reminded of her father in the cage that is his jail cell. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t sleep very well because of the cold and because the ground was very bumpy and pointy underneath me and because Toby was scratching in his cage a lot. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Riptide and slashed the lock off the zebra’s cage. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Giddy, he sashayed over to the cages where the dogs were destroying their chew toys, shredding them to pieces. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko had no difficulty catching the boy and hustling him into the caged backseat of the police cruiser. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a caged animal that had just been shown its dinner. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pignati kept staring into the cage, and we stood motionless for what seemed like an eternity. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled his arms back and held them immobile, and she lifted the monkey out of the cage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Station Inspector opened the cage, and Hugo saw his opportunity. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

By the time Coach Rockford came to check on me by the batting cages, I was already heading back to the field. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes, this is exactly how I always dreamed it would be. Locked in a cupboard with your elbow inside my rib cage,” Henry snipes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That watching the people from inside the fence makes him feel like an animal in a cage. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With the phone to his ear, Mack comes closer to my cage, eyeing me suspiciously. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I hate the sound of the cage door snapping shut. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She looks around, under tables, in my cage, by the trash can. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t find a cricket cage anywhere. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chest was concave, and mere skin sagged over a bony rib cage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and follow the ballad’s words, the story of a sparrow who freed a lark from her cage, only to be betrayed by the lark who flew away. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each one of these doors also stood ajar about three inches, fit by a bulb encased in a cage just like the generator room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I had the strangest compulsion to open his cage and let him out. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the glossy rats in the cage, he looked especially woebegone. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Thoughts that ran round in a circle like squirrels in a cage.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He would spend ten or fifteen minutes searching the room, squinting past the cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart practically busts through my rib cage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They were crawling with fleas and covered in scars and cuts and scrapes from being kept in a tiny gerbil cage. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“There, you see? You couldn’t help it if they put you in a defective cage. Come on out.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Other cages have rattlesnakes, and the man shows us how he milks the venom out of their fangs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His nails scraped against my rib cage; he seized my spine as though it were a pillar, void of pain but with unbearable pressure. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if Scott were rattling George’s heart inside her rib cage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon had given in because of the racket Hedwig made if she was locked in her cage all the time. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And everyone else, teachers and parents and Amish, were all looking at me as if they were at the zoo and I was something in a cage. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mario wanted to own the cage so much that he tingled all over. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya paused for a moment, then whacked the dirt bars of the cage away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Finally a thick voice behind him said, "Seven hells, it's the dwarf," and the cage jerked to a sudden stop and hung there, swinging slowly back and forth, the ropes creaking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Keep her in a cage, or a sealed room, like this one, and her magic cannot be used to escape. While under confinement they become fairly docile and obedient.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He peered down through the bars of the cricket cage and exclaimed with delight. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how much you poisoned them, shot them, scared them, trapped them, hated them, caged them, or generally raked over their habitat, you could not entirely kill all the coyotes, Joe thought. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose Dr. Schultz grew suspicious and put locks on our cages? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seeking to escape my heart’s cage of sorrow, I rushed off toward the forest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In science class, Mr. Z. told us about an experiment where they got this rat or mouse, and they put this rat or mouse on one side of a cage. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I try to sit up a little straighter, but that just causes the bodice of my dress to strain against my rib cage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Trying to hide his face—the very people who caged him might still be there—he followed Kathy through the doors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At last she turns off the TV and carries it out of the cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He pushed a brass button and a bell rang and the cage came up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Boots tromped by outside the cage, heavy and thudding, as if the wights sought to punish the very ground they walked upon. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The world left him thoroughly alone in this, although Ishmael and two other boys were hired that June to clean the cages with wire brushes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The younger boy became very scared of being left in the cage, but the elder one comforted him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the monkeys rattled their cages, and the wave of noise swept up and down the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed odd that the Sleeper had taken the bird, but not the cage. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then we stood and faced the cage door, eggs in hand, and prepared for the inevitable. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Will the bird be still if I come into her cage? Will she be content to stay?” he asked. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The doors had been blown off our cages. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Second, why had he been put in their cage? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There were some who looked like human women, but had skin the color of moss and lips like bark; they moved with a lissome grace, treading circles in their cages. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since Jamie was official treasurer of the team, it was he who approached the man behind the cage window at the post office. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justin climbed easily up the open door of his cage and vanished over the top with a flick of his tail. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’s a very good boy, and he’s a good worker. He cleans the animal cages at the research lab. He will be like a brother to you.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her teacup monkey, Singe, starts to stamp his feet and reach his paw through the cage bars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When I walked back to where my chickens were, Ms. Griegson was standing in front of their cage, looking at them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She approached the cage at the same time something in its corner shifted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The pigeons pecked uselessly at their empty eye sockets and flew through their rib cages, but the stallions kept right on running. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He is surrounded by a smell, his own, the smell of a cooped-up animal in a dirty cage. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose an entire wall of great accomplishments would be a fine cage for another poor tortoise!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They surrounded the cages with electrified wire, powered by a battery, to discourage leopards from trying to eat the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog’s gray tongue lolled in the dust and her rib cage pumped up and down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Louis the Eleventh, another of the fictional kings, had kept obnoxious bishops in rather expensive cages. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept turning his face to where he had last seen his fellow beast in the cage. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were safely stashed in the abandoned cages below the old prison tower at Hellgate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The canary cage showed that those aims were made up on the spur of the moment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sai pulled off about a dozen leaves and put one in the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the whole structure were radically shrunk, the uninitiated might perceive a vaguely agricultural purpose; the cages might be thought to contain chickens, or mink. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran into the cornfield and saw the lizard trapped in the cage that Jet had set up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Now, go ahead and stick your hand in the cage,” the professor says. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His heart beats icily in a faraway cage. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Harry now carried a large cage that held a beautiful snowy owl, fast asleep with her head under her wing. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

As she walked, she saw that some of the cages were empty, and some of the fay looked almost human. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Chester was lying on the floor of the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nutmeg helps keep me calm enough to go on living my life in this cage. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we drew the skin down over the rib cage it exposed the bullet, or what remained of the bullet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The birds to my right squawked and pecked on the bars of their cages. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The east side of Epidram was a maze of shacks and narrow alleys cluttered with old lobster cages and lines of damp laundry. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We knew that certain rats or mice went into certain cages, but we did not know what rut or mouse went into what cagc. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second man in the helicopter was beginning to lower a cage to him when Zeitoun thought to give the man a thumbs-up. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He looked over the two cages, peered into the Coat Room, and then put his ear to the walls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lycaon broke free of his bone cage with a triumphant howl. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Al sighs too, his rib cage lifting and falling against my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My own stomach didn’t want to be part of me anymore—an alien tired of being locked up in my rib cage. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lies down next to me, and I run my fingers over the flames wrapping around his rib cage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“All right now,” the Prince said to Westley, who lay in the great fifth-level cage; “before we begin, I want you to answer me this: have you any complaints about your treatment thus far?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never felt so powerless in all my life, not even when we were trapped in that animal cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

One of the men made a run at the cage, and instinctively, Emma flicked out her hands and sparked a roaring fireball between them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There is only one glass cage here, and inside it is a gray-haired man in a rocking chair facing away from me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There would be no enormous cage crinolines for her, thank you! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She looked down and realized she’d just put her shoe through a human rib cage. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the guards, sitting a few yards away from the man’s cage, kept insisting that he stay in the middle of the enclosure, where he could be easily seen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The speakers are so loud they make my rib cage vibrate. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another round cage, sitting on a table rather than hanging from above, contains an elaborate clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Wrinkling her nose at the sudden smell, the assassin walked past cages and stalls filled with dogs of many different breeds. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a gust of wind through the room, and my chickens made a racket when it blew through their cage. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Harry poked a few Owl Treats through the bars of Pigwidgeon’s cage, then turned to his trunk. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyhow, she told me about the time you freed your father’s rabbits because you didn’t think it was right to have them caged.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

John had gotten bored with Bobo and moved down to the next cage that had a gorilla. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then they pulled up the door of the cage. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was smelly and very noisy because the occupants of these cages were all squeaking, squawking, jabbering, or hissing. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Untangling a carrot from the bunch, I imagine Cinnamon and Nutmeg in their cage, shuffling through the shavings, drinking from the water bottle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re definitely better suited to a gilded cage than to a real one.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He reached into the cages and gave the monkeys their shots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that I am not in a cage, not now. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt Dri’s fingertips on the left side of my rib cage. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all seem to be trapped in some sort of a cage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about the story and how much he wanted the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bunch of expensive-looking white furniture, and on a table in one corner was a large wire pet cage. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The golden monkey darted from her side in a flash, and tugged Pantalaimon out from the mesh cage as Lyra fell out herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was making scratching noises, so I took off one of the coats and put it over the cage to make the noise quieter. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the shelf was dusted, he picked up the tissue in his two front legs and polished the cricket cage so its bars shone. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them pushed a cart, a hand truck piled with small wire cages. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I counted the people—forty-six packed in a cage on wheels, maybe a rolling coffin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where Father got the idea that his youngest son was itching to step into a cage with a ferocious carnivore. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Uncle Vernon, still purple-faced, still mustached, still looking furious at the nerve of Harry, carrying an owl in a cage in a station full of ordinary people. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Back then, California’s juvenile facilities were notoriously harsh, violent, dilapidated, dull, and overcrowded, with young wards routinely subjected to solitary confinement, and some forced to exercise and attend classes while locked in cages. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She tried in vain to awaken love in them by means of the bird cage that Úrsula had built during the first reconstruction of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of the central section was a cage of live birds in a little park of plastic trees and shrubs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl he picked up that afternoon had rattled his mobile cage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Also the cage in which I had put two young birds. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was cruel to keep birds in cages. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A large python had slipped from its cage. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We could no longer keep him in his safe cage. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A plaything. A pretty. He'll make a cage for it, from twigs.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had a key to my door and she kept bursting in at all hours, trying to catch me with the mice out of the cage. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Chester crouched in a far corner of the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeon cote was noisy, the rat cages were correctly smelly, but all were somehow wrong. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At least they kept him locked up in a cage, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But in front of her, from here to the guards, was nothing but prison cages. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I look at the cage around the lightbulb. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

We stopped in front of a cage with bars, only about three feet from where we stood. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, every time the floorwalker half turned his back John made believe he was throwing popcorn into the monkey cage, and I thought that man was going to go insane. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet I was in a frenzy to reach that open lawn, to run for the bushes, to get away from the cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They sat almost motionless in their cages, watching the two officers with expressionless faces. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fifteen tom cats in the cage at the Palace Flophouse and their yowling made Darling a little nervous at night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stuffed his rucksack and broomstick down by his feet and rammed Hedwig’s cage between his knees. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Or the lizard that darted in and out of the rock den inside the cage next to his desk. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“A blackbird in a cage. Right on the back of his hand. Can you believe that?” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then they started snapping their jaws and barking and bashing into the flimsy bars of Duke’s even flimsier cage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I remind myself of a greyhound, all sinews and skinny rib cage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He roosts right inside our latrine, which is near where his empty cage was thrown by the Reverend into the weeds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whoops! These new cage crinolines take some getting used to,” she said gaily. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Quite excellent! Take ten points for Gryffindor! And so — to business —” He bent down behind his desk and lifted a large, covered cage onto it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She’d be the princess, and that amounted to sitting in a cage he built out of stone or ice or something, and watching him and Ivan battle with magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He stood up on his hind legs and looked in through the red-painted bars of the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the empty cages begin to rattle inside me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Several were hunched over in their cages, paying no attention to her as she passed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He filled his fist and tossed the raw red morsels into the cage, and the squawking and squabbling grew hotter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She lay on her back with her hands clasped together just below her rib cage. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of performers throughout the tent, bathed with light from glowing round lamps that hang high above amongst ropes and chairs and round cages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That when the arena was cleared and the people had gone home, when the tigers were back in their cages, Caesar could send some agent to seek Julius out and murder him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just like her, “I sometimes feel like a bird in a cage and just want to fly away.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, she finds a tree behind the building and shinnies up as I watch from below, holding jay's cage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"The little bird's bleeding. Someone take her back to her cage and see to that cut." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And my heart in my rib cage was a bird that suddenly began to sing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate outside in the cage, and when night fell and the air cooled, he slept as Zeitoun’s cage mates slept, without blankets or pillows, on the filthy ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could feel her rib cage heaving in and out. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even this one easily executed task, retrieving the wallet of a man they’d held in a cage a few yards away, seemed, in the context, an act of great courage and empathy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Some of them very same cages are in my room, but you already know that too, don’tcha, Little Wood?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A new canary is singing in the antique cage hanging by the window, and from the center of the room the glass eyes of Barrabas stare up at me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking very determined, she placed herself in front of the cage door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The beasts patrolled their cages, well aware that they were on some perilous edge. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He dreamed that he was on show in a zoo, with a card reading underage wizard attached to his cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Jesse wouldn’t argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Farid was already busy with the door of the cage, but the two women inside were watching them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He knew it was a righteous anger at being caged and not really directed at him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Above his head hung the cage of King George, the scraggly green parrot won in a card game. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground fell away beneath him, the cage swung, and Tyrion wrapped his hands around the iron bars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We know that large numbers of black men have been locked in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My heart sinks into my rib cage and drops out of my chest entirely. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Tally felt like a mouse in a cage full of hawks, just waiting for one to swoop down and take her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon the monkeys began to collapse in their cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what’s in the cage? No, don’t tell me. The only other nonmagical creature in the Lower Elements. And the first troll we’ve managed to take alive in over a century.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe as a result, I’m made uneasy by the sight of birds in cages, fish in tanks, large dogs in small apartments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Prisoners are treated now like wild animals and are kept in cages,” he said in a lecture in 1905. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was prepared to spend my life in a cage as the centerpiece of their intergalactic zoo if it meant never returning to Calypso. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Koffi didn’t stop to think as she yanked the domed cage’s door open and let the birds soar up and into the night in a rainbow of feathers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There is no other sound, not of traffic or airplanes or trains or radios or the specter of Frau Schwartzenberger rattling the cage of the elevator. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But I can’t look at her, I just feel my heart threatening to break my rib cage, and wish that I hadn’t said anything, wish that we’d never come here. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet the cage with the rats was not two meters away from him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As he strode through the second-floor hallway he saw them: two dogs, a black Labrador and a smaller mixed breed, in a cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Climbing from the car, he maneuvered the goat cage from the back seat, with wheezing effort managed to set it down on the roof. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the cage, they put a little piece of food. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The cage was too far away—we’d be torn to pieces before we could reach it—but I could see that Emma was about to try anyway. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the cage opposite him was an old bear. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There's a cage for babies with a pile of sucked toys in it, but today it was empty. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She heard the bleats, snarls, and shrieks of caged beasts as its searing heat reached them, and her stomach heaved. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

O’Brien picked up the cage, and, as he did so, pressed something in it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever he was out of the cage, we closed the garage door, the only opening large enough for him to fly out. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the door of the cage, took the bird out and let it fly away. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the light of the low-hanging stars, it looked like an enormous cage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Four Brown Bears, each wearing a peaked cap, were trundling trolleys of food along the little corridor that separated the animals from the cages. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

At midday, Zeitoun and the cage mates were told they would be moving out of Camp Greyhound. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And for a moment Harry saw Snape’s profile: His eyes were fixed upon the coiling snake in its enchanted cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Flames seized the osier cages; billows of foul smoke rose skyward. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We walked out to the exercise courtyard, where these inmates were placed in large chain-link cages to exercise several at a time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach heaved, for this meant that she had to walk through the cavern, past all the cages and all those strange creatures with their sad, brilliant eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The children—oy. And where did you leave them? Outside in cages like the chickens?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat and the mouse were sitting on the shelf outside, and Chester Cricket was crouched under the bell in the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wisht I could put you in a cage with about a million mice an’ let you have fun.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I call, and run to the cage where my parakeet dances back and forth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She could feel her little sister’s heart pounding through her rib cage. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the gray tents of the Order of the Clean Hand, Spurge and Werfel sat slumped in a metal cage, waiting to hear news of their doom. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He half expected that she would pick him up, cage and all, and throw him onto the shuttle tracks. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large cage—perhaps four feet high—and inside was a strange-looking bird: black, as big as a small crow, but with stripes of color on its side. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They took the cage with them when they left. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Behind his head, still swirling and coiling, the great snake Nagini floated in her glittering, charmed cage, like a monstrous halo. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“When it’s humid and I’m running or whatever, my rib cage aches where the bullet cracked it. Other than that I’m okay.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, when there were almost one hundred prisoners elsewhere in the complex, was he in their cage? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Clutching the bars of his cage with bound hands, Mance sobbed and begged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I shifted my look to Bunnicula, who seemed to be asleep in his cage. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

With my other hand I find the patch of fire tattooed over his rib cage. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sat before me, making a cage of his fingers and nodding for me to begin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the dust settled, the handlers winched back the containment wall inside the cage and began hammering the side panels with the flats of their hands. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It squawked furiously when Taran did not bring its food quickly enough, and rattled its beak against the cage. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He would occasionally escape from his cage, wander around the house, and eventually climb up inside the hollow center post of the dining-room table and go to sleep. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a new cage not unlike my old cage, except that it’s much cleaner. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

If they hadn’t discovered the cup’s secret, she would have drowned in a cage. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Entering the door was like walking into a zoo with the animals outside their cages. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard Toby waking up, because he is nocturnal, and I heard him rustling in his cage. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The monkeys were quiet and subdued, but they rattled their cages now and then. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new guard’s expression was the same as his predecessor’s, seeming to take for granted the guilt of the men in the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She took the flashlight from Raymie and swung it around a room filled with cages. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Cooke got the cage which he knew the doctor always called for at that hour and brought it forward. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found that his rib cage ached when he walked. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owl screeched and fell to the floor of the cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the beast’s shadow descended over me, I awoke with my heart slamming against my rib cage and my mouth as dry as ashes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I come back to my room, breathless from running down the hallway, I notice Nutmeg and Cinnamon are in their cage again. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shiver, my rib cage aching from the cold. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Farid ducked down behind the cage when the red eyes looked his way. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every time I caught something, I put it back in the first cage I saw; I didn’t care if it was the right cage or not. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gathers up his tools and belongings while Julia runs to my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Within the hour, the long row of cages began to fill. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her own caged bird sings a song, written in the key of fear. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the cages were the fay she had seen in Mona’s book. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every one except Ms. Griegson, who put her hand on my chickens’ cage too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The cub pulled the paw back and then swiped the bars of the cage. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His fingers are so long that, though the heel of his hand touches one side of my rib cage, his fingertips still touch the other side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He ran a stick across the bars of the cage, and the tiger glared and backed off, as if preparing to spring again. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Now they fly to their iron cages in Annuvin,” he said. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Each cage was stencilled with the name and the brand of the bull-breeder. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the shower seemed to have been designed for someone approximately three feet, seven inches tall, so the cold water hit my lower rib cage—with all the force of a dripping faucet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were covered with shavings and smelled like they really had been in here for three hundred years, without getting their cage cleaned. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear was taking two cages of ravens, so they might send back word as they went. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Letting Algernon out of his cage would throw the meeting into chaos, and after all this was Burt’s debut into the rat-race of academic preferment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mahisha, now unconcerned with Babu, paralleled the move in his cage in a fluid, effortless motion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before any decision could be taken about what to do, she squeezed through a break in the roof bars of her cage and van­ished in the night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cage smelled of dogs and raw meat, and indeed it did look like a kennel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Babu unlocked, opened, entered, closed and locked a cage next to the tiger’s cage. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Always the procedure was the same: a prisoner would be removed from his cage and dragged to the ground nearby, in full view of the rest of the prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

None among them could live caged like that. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A snake kept in a laboratory cage had gone into violent tremors after being fed such worms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then they’ll give him a helmet and lamp and stuff him into a cage with the others. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were three six-foot-tall metal cages in the corner that couldn't have been more than four feet by four feet. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At any given moment, if you were to snap a picture of that hallway, half the people living in cages would be classified as “violent offenders.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Smiley found a large metal cage in his attic and brought it over. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The young birds were not like their mother and father, being gray and very ugly, but anyway, I took them from the nest and put them in a small cage that I made of reeds. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my first experience setting foot into a caged place. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A streak of black and orange flowed from one cage to the next. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She adjusted a flower cage on its pedestal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time a suitable chopping block was found, Lord Janos had retreated into the winch cage, but Iron Emmett went in after him and dragged him out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The door was stiff and it was heavy, and she could not get a good enough grip on either it or the cage wall to exert much pressure. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And there was enough of it to go around several times, so even if the blade broke away completely, it would still be held in a cage of wire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The witch behind the counter was already advising a wizard on the care of double-ended newts, so Harry, Ron, and Hermione waited, examining the cages. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

One time, I opened a cage to set a half-grown doe free. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew two pages of long, flexible zippers and noticed that a shark has no rib cage. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mario wanted to ask him how much the cage cost, but he was afraid to. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were cooking implements, and a large wooden cage, currently empty, in another corner. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s just something about having everyone agree on something—something about you—that opens a cage of butterflies in your stomach. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This seemed a very long time to Julius, who used the interval to dismiss the four slaves who were now needed to manhandle the large cage containing the full-grown tiger. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then he would be doused with the bucket and returned to his cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Under the eave of the porch our charge Methuselah screamed like a drowning man in his cage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone should walk up onstage and put them down, but no one is paying any attention to the caged dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In the third cage, which was wedged into the corner, sat a small man in a wheelchair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If I go, this trip will help me break free from my cage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the corner of a separate cage a mother rat lay over her litter of blind naked children and let them suckle and the mother stared about nervously and fiercely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked more human now, less like a caged animal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost like the spongy wood of his old tree stump— and felt much more like home than the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took a handful of nuts and berries and seeds from a wooden bowl and placed them inside the cage, which she hung from a chain in the middle of the caravan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to feel the infinite depth of space above and around her, not this metal cage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Once the bonobos were out cold, the men lifted them into the cages and then heaved those into the back of a truck to be transported to the airport. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there an animal had been crushed beneath a cage. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we reach his building, my heart’s slamming all over my rib cage. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The ladies-of-honor screech until he's safely returned to his small golden cage. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He unfastened the lid at the top of the cage and raised it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They eat food pellets from hoppers in their cages and drink from bottles fitted with eyedroppers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry hissed, springing up and pulling Dobby back onto the bed — Hedwig had woken up with a particularly loud screech and was beating her wings wildly against the bars of her cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He did not want it to be true that he was now and might always be a man in a cage, hidden away, no longer part of the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, the watch commander sent him to the winch cage with four barrels of fresh-crushed stone, to scatter gravel over the icy footpaths atop the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He made sure to pause meaningfully at their cage, giving Zeitoun and Todd a look of warning before moving on. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He sat on a folding chair about ten feet in front of the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Two very irritated dogs lunged at his cage with open jaws. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The edge of the tray was digging into his rib cage. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra explained fearfully about her encounter with little Tony Makarios, and looked over her shoulder at the poor caged daemons, who were clustering forward pressing their pale faces to the glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His arm goes around me, and I bury my face in his rib cage, tears and snot wetting his shirt. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Rani takes a cage out of her bag. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In his letter to me, he quoted Anne Frank by saying that he, too, felt “like a bird in a cage and sometimes just wanted to fly away.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, two lions walked up to the cage and began to sniff at it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The broomstick spun to earth, but he just managed to seize the strap of his rucksack and the top of the cage as the motorbike swung the right way up again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Before dinner, Uncle Jet set up a cage trap in the middle of the cornfield. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He climbed down the front of my cage rather than his own, and spoke softly; we both assumed that by now the other rats were asleep. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs and cats and little gerbils in cages. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Pond sprinted forward, forcing Nathan to squeeze his legs against Pond’s rib cage to hold on. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At a factory egg farm, the laying hen spends her brief life jammed into a wire cage with six other hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But the zoo lady said maybe they’ll have an opening there in a while, cleaning cages and stuff.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“If it’s only a bird, I suppose it will be O.K. if you keep him in a cage.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d stand the bird upright, saying, “Sorry, old fella,” and put it back in its cage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His body was placed in a cage that was suspended for months at the dockyard. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one cage by his feet was a wildcat for some man who wanted to regain some of his youthful vigor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rolls of parchment littered that part of his desk that was not taken up by the large, empty cage in which his snowy owl, Hedwig, usually perched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The lobby was luxurious—modern—but the rooms she peeped into were sterile green cages. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At first she felt caged in by New York. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The street lamps glowed brilliant in the moonlit dream of the campus, each light serene in its cage of shadows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the disaster at the Hellshow, the cages had been flooded to purge them of beasts and bodies; they’d been empty ever since. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He considers finding a couch to sleep on, but what if these demons from hell break out of their cages and murder each other during the night when he’s supposed to be watching them? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Koffi's toes curled in the grass, and from the cage’s shadows a beautiful creature emerged. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Also, how you gon’ get the dead bird out the cage?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It only came to his rib cage, but he wore it anyway. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of years ago, our nation put those considered less than human in shackles; less than one hundred years ago, we relegated them to the other side of town; today we put them in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And a little bit after we found him, he died. And all the daemons they cut away, they kept them in cages in a square building back there.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At last he was released from the cage. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were four mastiffs that had been raised tied to chains and spent the daytime locked in a cage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently, through a little clearing in the middle of the hall, they were able to get a glimpse of the cages. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Its pits are filled in, the cages torn down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She removed it from the cage, rocked it in her arms, and with a missionary’s care managed to get water down his parched, swollen throat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the snow was swirling round the outer ward, a caged beast howling to be free. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Animals were sedated, cages were loaded and secured, feed was stored, bunks were assigned, lines were tossed, and whistles were blown. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the open door on the cage made Raymie feel sad. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And she juts hers up at him, eyes directly pointed into his, and says, “If you touch me, I will call the police and they will put you in a cage.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The sunburned man in the cage yelled back, and soon the courtyard was filled with shouts and filthy language, the kinds of words my mother never wanted me to say or hear. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No it’s not. It’s just not used to the cage.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

One followed the cage down, drifting just beyond the bars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The boy stood on a wall,” she continues, “watching, pointing, but he lost his balance and fell into the wild cage.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at Emma and said, “You want them? Here!” and he pulled back and swung the cage at her face. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The whole room had exploded in activity, monkeys whirling in their cages and shaking them violently, giving off high, excited whoops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed it at the starry cage holding the snake, which drifted upward, off Snape, who fell sideways onto the floor, blood gushing from the wounds in his neck. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Piles of them function as tables, others hang suspended from the ceiling, along with large golden cages holding several live white doves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Will he try to bite me if I put my hand into his cage?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet just the fact that it was a cage made it horrible. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun and Todd were brought to the front of the cage, a few feet from the back of the bus station, and a different guard opened the door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hector carefully removes the bird, the damaged bars repairing as he sets the cage down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the rattlesnake cage the snakes lay with their chins resting on their own coils and they stared straight ahead out of their scowling dusty black eyes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, his desk was next to the table where the lizard’s cage sat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Impossibly, it seemed to be coming from among us, inside our cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He put two fingers on the bone in the center of his rib cage. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Is it better to be safe here, in a cage with a swing set and cubes of frozen fish? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But when he saw the cage, his courage failed him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We can open the cage. You could come and live in the drain pipe.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he quickly locked the cage, which Hugo had always feared somuch, and tucked the key back into his pocket. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He picked the cage up and rattled it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In spite of himself, Harry leaned around his pile of books for a better look at the cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We solved that problem by taking healthy stock from other cages and putting them into cages with sick animals. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he is out of his cage, he wants to sit on my head and worry my hair and my glasses frames. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have him in a cage for all the north to see, proof of your lies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mynah—a living creature smuggled in by the Mellower—stirred in its cage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something about her that looks like it can’t be caged or bound—at least not for long. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Deeply hidden inside the jungle were a scattering of small prisons, often just bamboo cages that held one man, forced to sit or crouch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But there was one thing—what my father had said about Mr. Bykovski on the cage—that kept bothering me no matter what else I was trying to think about. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everything within the cage rotates slowly, the silver stars sparkling as they catch the light. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We started walking down the long chamber with all the cages on both sides, and the only other people there were an attendant hosing out the gorilla cage and some woman holding a two-year-old baby. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My body was a knot of raw nerves and nausea, my lungs crushed against my rib cage like a prisoner in an iron maiden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It presses her breasts down against her rib cage until she looks like a box. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Calm down,” a voice says, like I can control how calm I feel when I’m being hog-tied like an animal and caged in preparation for slaughter. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart slams against its bone cage, over and over, blood seeping down to the cracks in the ground. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She was deep in enemy territory with no allies but a drüskelle who’d thrown her in a cage only a few weeks earlier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had just finished brushing my teeth and was heading back downstairs when a quiet knock sent my heart thudding against my rib cage. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On top of the big kennels are 10 smaller cages with smaller dogs. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In another cage a Gila monster with a skin like a beaded bag reared slowly up and clawed heavily and sluggishly at the wire. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet for a week after the application of the insecticide the water remained poisonous, a fact attested by the daily deaths of goldfish suspended in cages downstream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a cart laden with bleating lambs rolled past, and one of the smallest creatures wiggled through the wooden bars of its cage and tumbled to the street. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The shack—oh, it was a shack, no poetry of home and hearth allowed—was a flimsy cage, keeping me in and very little else out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Up on stage, the professor and another man are pulling Othello back from the cage and settling him into the stage’s lone chair. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“My dad isn’t going to like this. He’s not going to like it one bit. He always says the cons in the bug cage are the scariest ones, because you never know what they’ll do.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anger rose even higher in Conor’s chest, thumping his heart against his rib cage. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

No interest in caging the prey for later use. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That night, when it was his turn to lie over the guardrail in the cage, Zeitoun tried to do so comfortably but could not. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mark would’ve guessed the man could be caged with a dozen hungry lions and he’d still only have a smirk on his face as he decided which one to kill first. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The four cage slaves were swiftly disposed of, but Julius had to be kept alive until Caesar decided on a suitable fate for him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When we first got El Perico, he spent most of the time in a makeshift wire cage Roberto, my older brother, built for him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The professor marches over to where Othello stands next to the cage, a matter-of-fact smile on the academic’s face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But a day passed, then two, and Blaine remained caged in his frozen silence. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rani puts Jay in his cage, hands him to me, and then insists on sitting by the open door of the carriage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He drags it up, through his rib cage, to his heart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I went toward the microphone where Brother Jack himself waited, entering the spot of light that surrounded me like a seamless cage of stainless steel. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck my arm elbow-deep into the bird to excavate any meat clinging to the rib cage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Among the sellers with their ropes, cages, and water tanks were the sellers of little girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tapped my finger on the stout cage glass the snake had opened its clockwork jaws and seemed to smile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon one of the guards brought out a thick-barreled gun and shot it into one of the cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She opened the cage door, and picked out the sleeping dormouse with bony fingers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chester Cricket’s new manager, Tucker Mouse, was pacing up and down in front of the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babu exited the cage in the same careful way he had entered it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"He had some white stones too, an' a bird cage with a green parrot. He didn't blow the white stones, of course, an` he said." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tío Pepe once told me about this experiment with monkeys who were caged for so long that when the doors were left open, they wouldn’t come out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A caged catlike animal with blond fur and black spots purrs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter was horribly familiar with one part of the structure: the mesh cages, the silver blade above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby’s cage hung from a metal stand in the corner on the opposite side of the room, quite high up, so that the floor where she crouched was above their heads. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as the mouse hit the floor we opened the cage and shoved it onto the stage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The front of the cage had a slot for the name of the inhabitant, but no one had bothered to use it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Chester passed the first dollar bill up to Harry Cat, who took it over to the cage and pushed it through the gate. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This cage, like those, was a single-fenced enclosure divided into smaller ones. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She went closer and peered into the cage. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sam took a bird from one of the cages, stroked its feathers, attached the message, and said, "Fly home now, brave one. Home." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The monkeys had been shipped by boat to Ferlite Farms, where they were jammed together in large cages known as gang cages, in which the male monkeys often fought and bloodied and killed one another. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These memories were fading, as was the memory of being caged. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In my jeans pocket, I carry pictures: Nessa, smiling, at a Jersey dance camp; DeShon, with headphones, cleaning reptile cages at a zoo. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I tried not to get too excited, but I ended up running all the way down the hill to the lion’s cage. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in his bedroom, Harry fiddled aimlessly with his rucksack, then poked a couple of owl nuts through the bars of Hedwig’s cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

All day long I knuckle walk circles around my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I sit on the stoop of this daycare and press my palm against my aching rib cage. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She told him about lull, and how it didn’t work anymore, and how, as soon as her consciousness relaxed, it was as though the doors of all her captive terrors’ cages slid wide open. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Several cages had been toppled, their barred metal doors swinging in the morning breeze. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Clydas was with him, carrying a bucket of chopped meat as they shuffled from cage to cage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From his big cage on the porch, Methuselah screeched at us in Kikongo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes feel as if I am a bird without wings and the door on my cage is not open. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The northman had brought a son, three grandsons, four hundred spears, two score archers, a dozen mounted lances, a maester, and a cage of ravens ... but only enough provisions to sustain his own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One day he saw a seven-year-old boy hosing a terrified rabbit in its cage and laughing. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A small, yellow bird in a cage sat on its perch outside the house. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She won’t even set foot in this room, and these babies are in cages! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single mark on its little body, but the cage was scratched and dented, and the ground all around clawed to rubble. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We had just moved Koocah’s cage from the living room to the kitchen, where the family spent most of our time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Spoken right before you captured me and stuffed me in a cage. Was that the time for speaking truths?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the schoolhouse we had a time toting the cage up the outside steps that led backstage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He dashed to the back garden, where Fang and Slasher were hurling themselves against the wire of their cage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In earlier chapters, we considered various wires of the cage in isolation; here, we put the pieces together, step back, and view the cage in its entirety. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bullets obliterating the window of the veterinarian office and continuing on through the walls to reach the cages of the animals in back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I saw Sohrab, still in his yellow raincoat, leaning against a garbage pail, staring across the park at the empty batting cage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it was only when they were at the cage that they realized they hadn’t thought the whole plan through. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then, heaving his trunk in one hand and holding Hedwig’s cage in the other, he made his way back downstairs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Here is a black man caged behind bars, probably for years, put there by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of this had amused Nurse, who made his displeasure clear by confining Mormont in an iron cage and having him beaten every evening as the sun sank into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth was in favor of breaking the cages and freeing them on the spot, but I pointed out it wouldn’t do much good until the truck stopped moving. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying, Rocky’s girlfriend, Adrian, she cleaned animal cages.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There stood Boots’s cage, and there were the four slaves who carried it—all fast asleep too, sitting on the floor with their backs against the bars. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sprite had already begun to unlock some of the cages, and those who had been set free started to follow Kaede and her burden out of the cavern. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was no adult among them, except, some distance away, in front of a cage filled with playful spider monkeys, a tall wiry white man with silver-rimmed glasses stood bemused. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby and Pete, who used to play with me as soon as they got home from school, now ran immediately to that silly rabbit’s cage to play with him. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The children were moved from here to Karteh-Seh after the rockets hit the old orphanage. Which is like saving someone from the lion’s cage and throwing them in the tiger’s.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the cage to retrieve it and stroked her soft feathers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Instead of the usual display of gold-embossed spellbooks the size of paving slabs, there was a large iron cage behind the glass that held about a hundred copies of The Monster Book of Monsters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A slamming door sends a stack of trunks and cases tumbling in his dressing room, toppling a cage full of doves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then, starting with Jackie, he went from cage to cage, checking on the cheeping birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After the chairman announced the presentation from Beekman University, we took our seats on the platform behind the long table—Algernon in his cage between Burt and me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He drew on a pair of very thick gloves, picked up a large, knobbly walking stick, and proceeded toward the door of the Monster Books’ cage. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The room is long and rectangular, but with the overflowing bookshelves on both sides, I feel caged in by it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A labyrinth of three hundred rooms housing, no, make that caging, the wives and concubines of the sultan. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We lumbered to the front yard, where Patrice was directing the staff as they unloaded metal cages from a truck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” she says, zigzagging dressing across her salad, “you are not a discus cage. You are a flesh-and-blood person who this tragic thing has happened to. People will want to help.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Yellow-wing, whose cage had been brought inside at the end of summer, shifted on his perch and chirped. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A hundred feet ahead, under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, a row of chain-link cages hung suspended from cables. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Last winter, Piper had slowed the power of Gaia at the Wolf House, helping to free Hera from a cage of earth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mario was bending over the cricket cage, fascinated by the way Chester moved his wings when he played. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one key factor they hadn’t considered: how Ernie was going to get this dead bird out of the cage without having to touch it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On the rising cage were two members of the rescue team, identified by the green crosses taped to their helmets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This time the guards brought ham sandwiches to the cages and then stuffed them through the holes in the wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We need to get you out of that cage.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After a lifetime caged away from flight and truth, comes freedom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the butcher were cages with fresh chickens waiting to be killed for the buyer, and before him was a big zinc washbasin filled with fresh fish. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A safety cage dropped down with a guy in black scuba gear. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back room of the laboratory the white rats in their cages ran and skittered and squeaked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the back of the cage was a high and smooth cement wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cersei paced her cell, restless as the caged lions that had lived in the bowels of easterly Rock when she was a girl, a legacy of her grandfather’s time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had the hatch covers over their bay pulled open when the weather was good, but at all times the animals were kept confined to their cages. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tall wooden shack housed the cage elevator, which carried miners one to two hundred feet underground, where they would disperse into various dugouts called rooms, each supported by a single wooden pillar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If anyone even looked at them, they threw themselves against the sides of their cage and stuck their scabby snouts out as far as they could and clacked their long yellow teeth together. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He reached into the cage and pulled out a single sodden bird. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was jumbled up on the floor with Chess and Emma: Her elbow was in his ear; Chess’s knee was in Finn’s rib cage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was my favorite class because it was the only one held in a regular classroom—no jars of cow hearts, no smell of formaldehyde, no cages full of screaming monkeys. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The small cages were piled on top of each other, and the large cages looked like human prisons, and all of the cages were empty. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Bobby was like a caged panther, pacing up and down, continually complaining about everything, from the food, to the temperature, to the disrespect his captors showed him, and screaming at the guards. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"They can draw you up in a cage." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first, it looked like a typical maintenance tunnel, with electric cables, warning signs, and fuse boxes on the walls, lightbulbs in wire cages along the ceiling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Into her head came lines from an old poem: Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he looks more defeated than weak, more helpless than scared, liked a caged puppy. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For my dare, we went back to the Pit for me to get my first tattoo, the patch of Dauntless flames covering my rib cage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, when the money was used up, I would be moved to a state hospital, with hundreds of people like me, in a big cage in the basement. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Pretending to be talking about baboons, we proceeded to compare the mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers of the white boys to the various baboons in the cage. epithet after another. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must make these people think someone forgot to lock the place and shut the cages,” he explained. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even caged rats are given water bottles and food pellets. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I wondered what danger the caged men presented that they couldn't sit with the other incarcerated men on the benches. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The cage had two floors, one level with us, the other at the back, higher by about three feet, that led outside to the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bank was store-sized, and the only teller was Otis, back in his cage. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama began to weep, great silent tears, and Papa was now limping back and forth beside the bunk, like a caged animal, brandishing his long, polished North Dakota cane. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s mesmerized by the eaglet making little hops across the mulch-filled cage. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On one trip, Fred was holding the cage on the stern of the ship, while Dad backed the car aboard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in front of the cage containing his prisoners did he slow his pace to examine each of the three with a small, satisfied glance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, great!” muttered Elinor, stumbling out of the cage with Teresa. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And out from the largest of the cages there came, with slow, soft, winding movements, a Hamadryad. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The walls of the room appeared, and then the floor and the ceiling, and she had the distinct feeling that she was trapped in a box, a lovely cage filled with tapestries and cushions. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You could never see the sky here; it was like a cage. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

These days, George cleans my cage and Mack is the one who feeds me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It was in the kitchen, near her cage, a small scuffling on the hard linoleum floor. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It contained two banks of cages, positioned facing each other along opposite walls of the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton looked over at the lizard’s cage and searched for the small reptile, but couldn’t find him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

His caged bird was set free—free to live in a place where loving “differently” is the norm, unshielded and unwavering. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Once more I was lifted from the cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We had been standing in a rough circle on the floor of the laboratory, just outside the two screen doors that enclosed the mice cages. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bird was about the size of a small robin, and from inside the gold cage it seemed to glow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were now five prisoners in their cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took to covering his cage more and more often so that we could have some peace. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

All the cages were open and the snakes were out—some curled lazily into great scaly knots, others slipping gently about the floor. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster, so that I have to put my arms across my chest because it feels like it’s going to burst out of my rib cage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Digory now saw that where four trees grew close together their branches had all been laced together or tied together with switches so as to make a sort of cage. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The cage had been occupied until a few months before by a yellow canary named Porgy, who had lived in it for five years and then died of old age. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now whenever I looked at him I’d see the image of those two little bonobos in the cage. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s first suspicion was that the cricket had sneaked out and smuggled all the money from the cash register into the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cages were inside steel boxes that looked like microwave ovens. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wrapped his foot in all the extra paper napkins in the cage, and the relief was immediate. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Moreau snarls, and the cage becomes a tempest of swirling black clouds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock there were about fifty prisoners at the bus station, but Zeitoun’s cage was still the only one with its own dedicated guard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Artemis felt the excitement of success thumping inside his rib cage. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles burn merrily on every available surface, illuminating the sleeping doves in their cages hanging amongst sweeping curtains of richly colored tapestries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had dogs at his feet and a bird in a cage beside him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He trimmed them expertly with his knife, lashed them with braided vines, and in no time at all the dwarf held up a serviceable cage. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The sergeant fished his mop handle into a cage and pinned a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To dial a number given to you by a man in a cage, to tell the voice on the other end, “I saw him.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I offered him a chocolate bar, and he just let it drop outside the cage.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

At first I wanted Methuselah to come back and live in his cage, until Father explained to me that this whole arrangement was wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Algernon, I found myself behind the mesh of the cage they had built around me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Get out? But how? Your cage is shut.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Among the variety of animals I keep in cages in the garden I have four monkeys and a bat-eared fox that will escape on the slightest pretense from the boy who cleans out the cages. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our lives wouldn’t have needed saving if they hadn’t stuck us in that blessed cage!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I like this one, still nice and round. Maybe we should open that cage door and hose her down.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In a cage just like her old cage, still alone? The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I am out of the cage, and I am up close, and I am snarling. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grunt and a loud groaning of wood as the cage slid sideways and then the Wall was beneath him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could see that its whole interior was a large wire cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But then my mom stopped by the very last cage, where a playful little black-and-brown puppy caught her eye. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The lions saw the spear and ran off into the bush, leaving the two frightened boys in the cage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. My dad tore the cage down and made me stop.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally the monkey got itself jammed down in a crack behind a cage with its tail sticking out, and Sergeant Amen hit the tail with a massive dose of anesthetic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced his cage vigorously, and even ignored the scraps of meat that were given to him to whet his appetite. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The back of their cage nearly abutted the train tracks, and on the tracks directly behind them stood an Amtrak train engine. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The cage he had just been hanging from was now rising toward a hatch in the ceiling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He stood now amid the cages in the cellars of the Colosseum, breathing in the rank stench and listening to the growls and shiftings and howlings of the beasts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I cursed and Emma screamed and threw herself against the rail, clawing at the air as the cage fell toward the sea. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The Menagerie had been built to look like a tiered cage, its first two stories left open but for the widely spaced golden bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I watched through the wire front of my cage as the others were caught and tagged. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As she blew a little snow on each cage, the goose made a clicking sound in his throat, and the catch at the front of the cage came open. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In a wire cage in the living room lived a python named Sampson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of cages for showgirls to dance in, but no one was in the lounge now except a janitor. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All the monkeys in these cages were infected with Ebola virus, and most of them were silent, passive, and withdrawn, although one or two of them seemed queerly deranged. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went together to buy birds for the cages that had been empty ever since my grandmother, sensing that she was about to die, had opened them and let the birds fly out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The caged Miss Peregrine that Golan had thrown into the ocean—that had been the real one, while the one we “rescued” had been her brother. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The constables returned him in an iron cage made by one of their cousins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"Can you move my lab mice somewhere safe? They're in the bio lab. It's just one cage." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own recently whopped head throbbed in sympathy, but he had never been happier to have a chaperone who liked mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Scrappy got a tattoo of a blackbird in a cage on the back of his hand,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Because it may take more than one night to find the way out. If it does, whoever is doing the exploring must be back in his cage by morning. Otherwise Dr. Schultz will find out.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Between us stands a parrot cage that we found for the cat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only survivors of the experiment were the two control monkeys—the healthy, uninfected monkeys that lived in cages across the room from the sick monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck his own arm into a tsetse cage. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dobzhansky harvested the two cages after four months, he found that the populations had changed dramatically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Tendai, somewhat regretfully, closed the bird cage and put it into a closet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The energy of the bomb came from cutting the link between human and dæmon, and that meant the hideous process of intercision: the cages of mesh, the silver guillotine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their limbs stuck out at awkward angles through the wooden bars of the cage, and at the sudden sunlight they cried loudly, scrambling over each other to try to get out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Argaven stood there sullen as an old she-otter in a cage, swinging back and forth, from foot to foot, back and forth, baring his teeth in a grin of pain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’m like an animal who’s been locked out of his nice, safe cage.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took the cub out of the cage. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the staff became more frustrated by their inability to get Joe out of the cage, there was talk of using pliers and hacksaws, of putting the cage on its side with Joe in it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The only other object in the cage was a steel bar in the shape of an upside-down U, cemented into the pavement like a bike rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There, clutching each other and shivering in a cage, were two baby bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would be even funnier to see Algernon escape from his cage, and to see all these people scattering and crawling around on their hands and knees trying to retrieve a small, white, scurrying genius. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wilson is a little flighty like that, which is why she sometimes pays me to go knock on her door and remind her to clean her hamster cage. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, they dragged him to his feet and returned him to the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After many clicks and carrots, she takes Ruby back to her cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He began to pace back and forth like an animal in a cage, pausing only to point a finger at Violet. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was a small crowd around the cage now, and one particularly frantic woman grabbed my shirt and tried to pull me over the chain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stage was against the far side of the barn, and staggered across the enormous dance floor between it and the doors were four huge cages on raised platforms. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had my finger on the cage door release, and as Algernon watched the movement of my hand with his pink- candy eyes, I’m certain he knew what I had in mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

With one hand holding up my anaco, she uses the other to wind the faja over my rib cage, so tightly I can barely breathe. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he pulled the only rabbit he had out of a hat, which happened to be a cat from a cage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

David brought him back downstairs and put him in his cage. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because when I yanked her off balance and she put her hand out, her open hand went right up against my rib cage, almost into my left armpit. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked to the cage, peered in; then she circled around it, viewing the goat from every angle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She carried the cage outside and hung it from the willow tree beside the hut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Gulliver didn’t chirp once when Virgil lifted him out of his cage—another sign of his misery and resentment. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He seemed so far away from us, from the boat, in a tiny cage. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Harry hurried into the hall to fetch his rucksack, Firebolt, and Hedwig’s cage before joining the others in the dark back garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If I see a canary in a cage, I’m running. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Jane—look!” said Michael, pointing to the cage at the end of the row. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A little door was open at the back of the cage, and apparently Bobo was in the inner part where they get fed. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I try to stand up straighter, but my muscles feel like a cage, holding my shoulders hunched. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was late one night that I heard him calling to me, speaking softly, around the wooden partition between our cages. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

During those first few weeks, warders from other sections and even other prisons came to stare at us as if we were a collection of rare caged animals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four needle jabs to my rib cage later, I’m flattened out on my hospital bed, gritting my teeth to keep from begging them to bring back my morphling drip. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He takes his top hat from its stand and puts it on her head, where it slides down and obscures her questioning eyes in a cage of black silk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I no longer have to tie the faja so tightly it strangles my rib cage for fear of my anacos falling down. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an outburst of squeals from the cage. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The owl was asleep, or else faking; she was angry with Harry about the limited amount of time she was allowed out of her cage at the moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He bought me a bag of popcorn, and we returned to the cheetah cage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our mother sometimes threw a tablecloth over his cage in frustration. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think, my dear Alyosha, that if you want to win that bear’s heart, you should stop expecting it to be happy in a cage.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

These baby monkeys were kept in a cage so long, they wouldn't come out when the doors were finally left open. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

By the third day, much of the cage had been dismantled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two-legs reached down into the cage and began to rub the cub’s belly. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had a piece of cord tied tightly around his waist, and this was attached to the top of a tiny wire cage. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They flipped it over the top of our cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Unaware of the commotion in the courtyard, she was led by instinct directly to the corner where the cage had been set down. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the cages and plants and birds—it was, yeah, a little freaky. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Wall is mine, Jon reminded himself as the winchmen were swinging in the cage, for two more days, at least. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gem-bright birds perch in dangling cages and lend their sweet songs to silent garden nooks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Within his cage, he fluttered like a burning leaf, a moth caught in a candle flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The warmth of a home and a family was a healing change from the prison cage for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was small, with brown walls, and the metal bars, so thick his hand could not go around one, reminded him of the chimpanzee’s cage at Nsukka’s dismal, forgotten zoo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He willingly walked from his “traveling” cage to the three-sided one on the platform that would carry him aloft. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for the steady rise and fall of their rib cages, I might think they were dead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Liza Hamilton, her apple cheeks flaming red, moved like a caged leopard in front of the stove when Samuel came into the kitchen in the morning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The birds in outdoor cages jostle, and Lark calls them all by name as they pass. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the first door, there’s a second door, so we’re trapped in a cage in between. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s the trouble with you great clodhoppers. You don’t see beyond your noses. But if you expect me to build a cage for you, you’re mistaken.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see where it was coming from, and that’s when I noticed that all the animals were out of their cages. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she slides it into my cage at the spot where my glass is broken. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The bonfire’s curling cage sits empty, not even a smoldering ember remains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By the time they showed it to her and asked for help, it was just a beating heart inside a cage of matted feathers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But you know what’s not guaranteed? Not one thing. Except for cages. Cages...everywhere!” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The rough- looking boys were removing a large, squawking long-necked bird from a bamboo cage. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Pink didn’t help me, there was no way I could get that heavy cage into the auditorium. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think Ralph would be happy in a cage,” he told his teacher. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a practiced eye, Jemmy surveyed the cages. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Michael seemed immediately interested and hopped from his perch to the cage bottom, and Genie left the room relieved. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The trafficker hadn’t had time to put the cover back on the cage, and I would forever remember the image of the two little bonobos in back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Still I am beating my wings against the walls of my cage,” I said ruefully, “for Elsinore sometimes seems a prison to me.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He had just about decided to forget his sudden whim and go to bed when the cage gave a jerk and began to ascend. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I would simply have to ambush it with whatever sense I had left, or it would trap me in its stupid cage for fifty years without any sense at all. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Both floors had cages, or bubbles, in which one officer sat and operated the gates and cell doors by means of an ancient system of brass-handled levers that protruded from the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If by chance a baby was left behind in a crib, or a leopard in a cage, it would be a skeleton without marrow, clean as a whistle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched my left side and rested her hand on my rib cage, midway down the line of the surgery scar. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single mule was hitched to one of the cages and dragged it up against the gate in the corral wall. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Prison workers should be retrained for jobs and careers that do not involve caging human beings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two boys cowered in the corner of the cage, and the uncle could hear the younger one weeping. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if, imprisoned in that cage, a cage within his own heart had burst open. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The plan was to knock Quisling unconscious, drive him into the mountains, call Britain for a plane, fly him to London, and put him on display in a cage. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had stuffed it into an inside pocket of his jacket, Dumbledore waved his wand and the trunk, cage, and Hedwig vanished. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners had been added to the cages throughout the evening, and now there were more than seventy at Camp Greyhound; they were angry. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We swam and prepared to dive for the cage, though I didn’t know where the breath would come from, we had so little left. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Quickly, before any thought could paralyze him, Milkman plunged both hands into the rib cage. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his face a puffy mask, Harry felt as though he was peering out from between the bars of a cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We all fell in a jumble: Chester, the cage, Bunnicula, and me. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ox carts, oxen, and horses had all vanished horn the yard, but the bear cage was still there. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rusted iron bars cage the first floor windows. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He used to risk getting shot just to leave the cage of the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And so Enoch held up Miss Peregrine’s cage and she let out a great screeching cry. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in her cage, staring at Harry with her enormous amber eyes, and clicking her beak in the way that meant she was annoyed about something. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She crouched down, a safe distance from the cage, and stared into the yellow eyes of the cub. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s heart beat against his rib cage like the invisible bird, and tears fell down his cheeks. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He still hadn’t recovered from his Amazon imprisonment— getting kicked across the lobby, disarmed, caged, and insulted as a baby man by an egomaniacal horse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I left him my name. He won’t need more than that to know where to find his precious little daughter. Tell Capricorn I’m shutting her in one of the cages.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He felt the secret building up inside him, a living thing rattling around his rib cage. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Store managers juggle key rings and extra-large coffees, then the cage gates fly up in the air. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll never smoke cigarettes or eat pork or birds with webbed feet,” she murmured as she swabbed out the guinea-pig cages. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cage was directly before the manor door, and the techies were securing a concussor seal to the surrounding wall. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If there were no blood vessels, no rib cage, no muscles holding up my heart to where it beats in my chest, it would’ve fallen out onto the floor. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When she nodded breathlessly, he reached down and lifted the cub out of the cage, talking to him in a clucking, rumbling tone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He hops onto her shoulder jauntily when she lets him out of his cage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A sort of premonitory tremor, a fear of he was not certain what, had passed through Winston as soon as he caught his first glimpse of the cage. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Javier deftly swung his right leg back over his seat and came to a stop with his left leg still in the cages of his pedal. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She took her hand off their cage and looked out at all those people who were looking at her and waiting. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Darlene put the cage on the bar and uncovered a huge, scrofulous rose cockatoo that looked, like a used car, as if it had passed through the hands of many owners. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I pulled apart the two cages just a little bit, and Sycorax whirled, hissed, threw herself on top of Caliban, and pushed through. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The inside of the Wildcat became a cage of screaming and seat-jumping until we finally heard Pa shouting, “All right! All right back there!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I stepped inside the security checkpoint cage, my fingerprints and retinal patterns were scanned, and my new name flashed on the monitor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She looked over at the cage but said nothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I draw the things in my cage, simple items that fill my days: an apple core, a banana peel, a candy wrapper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

My mom presided watchfully over the whole process, barking out reprimands whenever the men banged the cages. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was red on one side and white on the other, all matted and filthy from cage and travel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Our main problem, it seemed to me, was that the state had certified us as lion tamers before ever leaving us alone in a cage with a lion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is the case of the chimpanzee whose cage door was left unlocked and had swung open. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is the chief reason broilers don’t get put in cages. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I went to the cage and carefully lowered it to the floor. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry made sure that Hedwig’s cage was safely wedged on top of his trunk and wheeled his trolley around to face the barrier. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Harry got dressed and was just persuading a disgruntled Hedwig to get back into her cage when Ron banged his way into the room, pulling a sweatshirt over his head and looking irritable. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His brother had given him three cages of ravens too, so Kerwin could send back word of their voyaging, but Victarion had forbidden him to loose them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s hard to believe a man in a cage, but please. Can I just give you her number?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He put the cage on the ground and went back to fetch the two boys. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And is the song of a bird different if the bird is in a tree, in the sky, or in a cage? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By this time we had developed a sort of system of communication, a simple enough thing, just passing spoken messages from one cage to the next, like passing notes in school. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Leonard’s daughter will develop a phobia of birds being locked up in cages. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So they made a sort of cage or coop all round him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And, in one cage, a no longer functioning false animal, a chicken. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

If chickens are pecking at each other in cages, the industry doesn’t let them out of their cages. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He edged slowly forward, keeping his body away from the cages on either side, which were filled with hysterical, screaming, leaping, bar-rattling monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had a skirt like a cage carved of whalebone, another a long train made of hundreds of doves’ wings all stitched together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

About six cages down from me, on the same shelf, I saw them put a collar on Jenner; but once he was back in his cage, I could see him no longer. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We came to the parrot cages, my other favorite place. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under it all, the calls keep coming from the cage, and my sick feeling gets near to crippling. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Through the cage exits we could see the vegetation of the surrounding island, flooded with sun­light. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would open a cage door, and the sergeant would slide the mop handle into the cage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under my window, Nutmeg and Cinnamon purr happily, shuffling through the shavings in their cage. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun saw no reason not to do so, even while being held in an outdoor cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On a stand beside her was a cricket cage just like Chester’s. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone who was there looking for beads among the trash told Úrsula that the night before he had seen her son in the tumult of the caravan pushing the snake-man’s cage on a cart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was just a lot of noisy kids trapped in a cage for twenty minutes to play a game they didn’t have time to play or enough of whatever they needed to play it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet up, the heavy cage began to sway with every gust. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sometime before his twenty-first, a Crown Victoria cage car would take him back to Alameda County Juvenile Hall, where he would be processed and then released. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We have been listening to your talk about going out. We would like to go, too, but we cannot open our cages.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took him out of his cage and stroked him on the head. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muttering with rage, Mama Bellini picked him up by his antennae, tossed him into the cricket cage, and locked the gate behind him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand slid whining under; the blue hills drifted by, drifted by, leaving their home behind, the raining pillars, the caged flowers, the singing books, the whispering floor creeks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, you specify that it will be a big cage. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

One of my colleagues scribbled on a piece of paper, which he then posted on the side of the cage: “Dangerous. Please Do Not Feed.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two inmate trusties who had been mopping the floor stopped to watch the officers struggle with the wheelchair and the cage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pretty Boy chirped at me from his cage. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are transferred from their prison cells to a much larger, invisible cage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The round belly that I once loved to wrap my arms around is caved in, showing his rib cage. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he’s done with Ruby, he enters my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He wriggled out, seized Hedwig’s empty cage, and dashed back downstairs to his trunk, just as Uncle Vernon burst out of the dining room, his trouser leg in bloody tatters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And Boo would remain caged forever—if he was even alive. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman kept song sparrows in small wicker cages and gave Liyana two fat olive oil soaps to take home to her mother, too. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The crab-eating monkeys at the Reston monkey house were placed each in its own cage, under artificial lights, and were fed monkey biscuits and fruit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had leaned over, thrust her hand in the cage and waved the end of her sari in the lion’s face, with what intent we never figured out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of black men are unable to be good fathers for their children, not because of a lack of commitment or desire but because they are warehoused in prisons, locked in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once they cut through my wall, they would have to cut through the cage, too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

O’Brien picked up the cage and brought it across to the nearer table. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The door opened up and she looked straight ahead and saw all these cages. She started yellin, ‘Dale, you not gonna believe it, but them cages was filled with man-sized rabbits!’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then we heard a dog snarl very near the bottom rim of the cage, and went silent. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a large fireplace in the dining-room and she now set about wedging the cage up the chimney and out of sight. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was so empty and quiet that he could hear his anxious heart thump against his rib cage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Although it was three or four meters away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compartments, and that there was some kind of creature in each. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the light of the full moon every tree and flower and shrub was visible, and they could see the houses and cages quite clearly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Overhead the moon shone through the bars of the fire escape, and it kept pace with us as we walked inside, like some restless animal pacing in its cage. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tongue was as rough as a rasp, but even so she would not pull her hand back, not until Jaime took her by the shoulders and yanked her away from the cage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he saw again the Horned King and heard the screams from the flaming cages. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When I am home, Budgie wants to be out of his cage, a desire he makes known by squawking or, what is far worse, by pacing dementedly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fjerdans would stand outside their cages, eating and drinking, mocking their filthy clothes and the way they smelled. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I feel giddy looking up at Jay's cage, swaying above my head. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I was explaining that I’d never had a cage when I heard panicked squawks coming from the greenhouse. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t trust my voice not to shake, so I put my hand on top of the wire cage with my chickens in it and I shook my head. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He paced like a caged animal, and Luke had no idea why. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His rib cage ached, like he hadn’t taken a deep, full breath in a very long time. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In the corner, the invisible bird sounded as if it was helplessly throwing itself against the walls of its cage. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Polly looked happy and healthy enough standing on his cage, but he still gave me the evil eye. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green metal cage, the porcelain table top, the family that spoke like guitars. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children of all shapes and sizes, from babies in long clothes upwards, were scrambling about in another cage. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

You get three showers a week and are allowed forty-five minutes in a small caged area for exercise a few times a week. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Abdulrahman, being younger, would clean the cages when necessary, and Ahmad, being older and more experienced in these matters, would find new birds, feed those who lived there, and train them when the time came. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We disregarded his presence and jostled our way through the startled white boys to the front of the cage. as I deliberately kicked him in the shin. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could walk, we built a “cage” for him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I clutch the bottom of the seat with one hand and put my other hand over Jay's cage to keep it from sliding around. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This led to a quick game of “spleen,” which is where we try to jab each other in the rib cage. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“What sort of a net or a cage would hold it?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His belly was concave, and his skin pressed against his rib cage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was so nervous, it felt like my heart was playing xylophone against my rib cage. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had latched myself into my cage and was getting ready for sleep when I heard a scratching noise on the door, and there was Jenner, climbing down from above. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the President was thrusting his lizard dæmon into the smaller of the silver mesh cages. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I put the food in the palm of my hand and went downstairs to the basement, where I opened the top of Tiny Tim’s cage. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then we were scrambling to the hatch and sprinting down and down the endless seesawing staircase, hopeless that we could reach the cage before it sank but hysterical to try to anyway. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Shay and Jessica stare at us like two cats watching birds in a cage. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hers was a gilded cage, but it was a cage nonetheless. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The cages are behind the building, tucked into pine trees and landscaping. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As I lay there in the strange house, I felt like a newly caged animal that rushes about looking for the open door that isn’t there. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was ramping up and down in his cage, coughing, and blowing his nose, and spluttering with rage. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Like a discus thrower, Golan continued the swing until the cage sailed over her head, then released. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The trunks right themselves instantly, but Hector picks up the cage to inspect the damage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Quickly after each group was locked into a cage, they were warned about touching the fence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The line from my rib cage to my knees fell straight without even a ridge to disturb its direction. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog barked, its nose snuffling to get beneath the tarp and up through the cage bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The space inside Zeitoun and Todd’s cage was approximately fifteen by fifteen feet, and was empty but for a portable toilet without a door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They ducked out the door of the cage. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Another corridor lined with cages, big ones though, and inside, great baying hippos and a twenty-foot alligator thrashing angrily in shallow water. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He raised the cage, shielding himself, and gave it a vicious shake. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

What torment—like a cage door no sooner swinging open than it slammed shut again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The figure at the top looks up only briefly from behind a cage of ornate gold bars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cinnamon and Nutmeg jostle each other, their front feet high against the side of the cage. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two dogs he’d brought with him from the city lunged and snapped at the TV star cowering behind the bars of his cage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z