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Examples
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Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice.
The Woman in White 2003
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He would blandly kiss his white mice and twitter to his canary-birds amid an assembly of English fox-hunters, and would only pity them as barbarians when they were all laughing their loudest at him.
The Woman in White 2003
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A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad. de
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It is perfectly true to human experience, that there are minds, which, like caged nightingales and canary-birds, though their wings were formed with the faculty of cleaving the clouds, yet pass a perfectly contented existence within their wires, and sing as cheerfully in return for their water and seeds, as if they had the range of the horizon.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Our embarkation will, I foresee, be a work of time and labour; for my friend, Mad. de ____, besides the usual attendants on a French woman, a femme de chambre and a lap-dog, travels with several cages of canary-birds, some pots of curious exotics, and a favourite cat; all of which must be disposed of so as to produce no interstine commotions during the journey.
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Through the wide doorway the patio and its colonnades of many pillars lay cool and shaded; cages of singing canary-birds hung from the ceiling; the fountain rippled in the middle; a tall girl in green and white sauntered across in her slippered feet, carrying a tray; a gaily dressed slave passed silently; and the whole thing might have been a dream ....
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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The sale of canary-birds and poodles might suffer a temporary depression in consequence; but this is comparatively unimportant.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Some of the other boats were full of men, who came on board, bringing fans, canary-birds, parrots, feather flowers, basket-work, filigree jewelry, and many other things to sell.
Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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Other persons carried for sale canary-birds, linnets, and two or three other sorts of small birds, perched on their fingers; these birds had been rendered so tame that they did not attempt to fly away.
A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss
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When they reached town, mamma took her into a store where birds are kept for sale; and Birdie saw, to her great delight, hundreds of canary-birds, and a good many bright-colored parrots.
The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People Various
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