Cage example sentences

He sold cats and dogs and monkeys; he dealt in fish food and bird seed, prescribed remedies for ailing canaries, and displayed on his shelves long rows of ornate and gilded cages.Arriving at the zoo, Grandfather made straight for the particular cage in which Timothy had been interned.The bird suspected nothing and he was so surprised when she carried him over to the cage, popped him in, and shut the door on him that for a moment he could think of nothing to say.“I've put you in the cage because I'm so fond of you.Then, opening the cage, he reached inside and drew out one of the doves.“Now why don't you transfer Timothy to another cage, away from this stupid leopard?” “But— sir —” stammered the keeper, “it is not your tiger.And he tried to slip through the bars of the cage, but of course couldn't, and he beat against the door, but of course he couldn't open it.” Grandfather went in search of the Superintendent of the zoo, but found that he had gone home early; and so, after wandering about the zoo for a little while, he returned to Timothy's cage to say good-bye.If he comes back, and mind you, if he does you'll be lucky, pop him into the cage and keep him there.He was holding the cage shoulderhigh, staring at his purchase.“I shut you in a golden cage because I loved you and wanted to have you all to myself.“The rice-fields and the lake and the willow trees look quite different when you see them through the bars of a cage.“Hello Timothy!” said Grandfather and put his arm through the bars of the cage.Grandfather took what seemed to him an age to withdraw his hand from the cage.” The customer pointed suddenly to a suspended cage which contained two snowy birds.