1 Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXI 2 He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 3 She was looking at the canary yellow festoons left over from the Coronation.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 7 4 At the theatre," went on Nozdrev, "there was an actress who sang like a canary.
Dead Souls By Nikolai GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER IV 5 One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII 6 As the spring came on, I grew more and more lonely, and fell back on the telegrapher and the cigar-maker and his canaries for companionship.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII 7 They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 8 Her canaries alone number four hundred, and, in addition, there is an army of pug-dogs, hangers-on, and servants.
Dead Souls By Nikolai GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV