Canaries

Examples

• They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The Count was exercising his canaries as he used to exercise them in Marian's time at Blackwater Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They are almost as tame as the canaries, and they are perpetually let out like the canaries. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My cockatoo, my canaries, and my little mice--who will cherish them when their good Papa is gone? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I will offer my canaries and my cockatoo to this vast Metropolis--my agent shall present them in my name to the Zoological Gardens of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The canaries and the cockatoo were probably in some other room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Canaries of unrivalled vivacity and intelligence: worthy of the garden of Eden, worthy also of the garden in the Regent's Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typist: Pierce