Cages

Examples

• At a signal from Dak Kova the doors of two cages were thrown open and a dozen green Martian females were driven to the center of the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There's some of the birds flown from the cages. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The old man, looking up at the cages after another look at us, went through the list. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He paused a moment before the cages, with upraised sword. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The racks without your cages are filled with blades. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Then a figure broke from one of the cages behind them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I could not have imagined then that you would want to sell our furniture, and take a house in Bride Street, where the rooms are like cages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The other apes turned now upon me, and as I stood facing them a sullen roar from the audience answered the wild cheers from the cages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Kantos Kan and I were confined together in one of the cages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• For an instant silence reigned in the great amphitheatre, then a wild shout arose from the cages of the doomed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The inner guards went down beneath howling mobs, and the cages vomited forth their inmates hot with the lust to kill. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Soon the cages were covered, they had a strange funereal look. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Just beneath the lowest tier of seats was a series of barred cages on a level with the surface of the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The following morning the cages would be filled with a new consignment of victims, and so on throughout the ten days of the games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• We all drew nearer to the cages, feigning to examine the birds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Della