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  • Here is a better explanation from the official web site: “The new eBARRITO stores consist of modular, double-pressed cardboard walls equipped with wavy-style shelving – an effect achieved with interlocking tubular sections and modular lamps resembling bird-cages.”

    Speech Bubble Cardboard Coffee Table 2010

  • Our bed-room has two great glass bird-cages enclosed balconies one looking toward the Rhine Valley & sunset, the other looking up the Neckar-cul de sac, & naturally we spend nearly all our time in these…

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Our bed-room has two great glass bird-cages enclosed balconies one looking toward the Rhine Valley & sunset, the other looking up the Neckar-cul de sac, & naturally we spend nearly all our time in these…

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The outer rind of the Bamboo, split and shaved thin, is the strongest material for baskets; hen-coops, bird-cages, and conical fish-traps are very quickly made from a single joint, by splitting off the skin in narrow strips left attached to one end, while rings of the same material or of rattan are twisted in at regular distances.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • The bower of blossoms and bird-cages in which those crabbed old gentlemen were embosomed was approached by a flight of marble steps, flanked by gilded nymphs and tritons.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • The two rooms were exactly like two bird-cages, set side by side, one smaller than the other; the flat was on the third storey, and the windows looked into the courtyard.

    A Raw Youth 2003

  • Our bedroom has two great glass bird-cages (inclosed balconies), one looking toward the Rhine Valley and sunset, the other looking up the Neckar cul-de-sac, and naturally we spend pearly all our time in these.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • The bower of blossoms and bird-cages in which those crabbed old gentlemen were embosomed was approached by a flight of marble steps, flanked by gilded nymphs and tritons.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • I opened a side-door, and entered a large room, where were, in a corner, some rusty and cobwebbed bird-cages, but nothing more.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • (The place was quite a humble one; the Parrys were never very well off; but there were always grooms and stable-boys about — Clarissa loved riding — and an old coachman — what was his name? — an old nurse, old Moody, old Goody, some such name they called her, whom one was taken to visit in a little room with lots of photographs, lots of bird-cages.)

    Mrs. Dalloway 2003

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