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Hearing the canary's song Maxine 2008
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And at night we'd sit and listen to the canary's song.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Distant Shore 2006
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If we're the equivalent of canaries in the coal mine, we ought to remember exactly what the canary's fate was.
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Venus and Main Street and the canary's tweet the planets and their motions the earth with its erosions because my soul is sore goddamn the ports and shores of the enormous oceans my pain's as bad as that.
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Haystack Radio Observatory in Massachusetts agreed to look for the pieces when the canary's orbital plane went over their radar beam.
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The face he turned to Clive beamed with delicious anticipation, like a cat's on finding the door to the canary's cage open.
Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984
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I've never listened to a canary's heart, 'he added rather apologetically.
Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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Lifting up his eyes to the light, to see if he had glued on the wooden canary's head quite straight on its neck, Alick caught sight, through the window, of a couple of fishing-smacks making steadily for the bay.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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He has mended all my doll-ladies 'broken legs, and the canary's head, too; and he has made such a bewful new tail for the old horse -- the grey horse, you remember, father, what lost his tail when he was quite young.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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There really was a deep full tone, distantly suggestive of a nightingale's, that favourably distinguished the bird's song from the canary's usual acute treble.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 Various
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