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Updated: May 8, 2025
We often move to the objects of supreme curiosity or desire, not in the lines of castle or bishop on the chess-board, but with the knight's zigzag, at first in the wrong direction, making believe to ourselves we are not after the thing coveted. Put a lump of sugar in a canary-bird's cage, and the small creature will illustrate the instinct for the benefit of inquirers or sceptics.
We often move to the objects of supreme curiosity or desire, not in the lines of castle or bishop on the chess-board, but with the knight's zigzag, at first in the wrong direction, making believe to ourselves we are not after the thing coveted. Put a lump of sugar in a canary-bird's cage, and the small creature will illustrate the instinct for the benefit of inquirers or sceptics.
"Oh no," replied the fairy who had addressed him; "we are in the habit of talking to children, though they do not always know it." "And what do you tell them?" asked Phil, eagerly. "All sorts of nice things." "Do you tell them all they want to know?" "Oh no," laughed the fairy, with a silvery little voice like a canary-bird's.
I suppose you'll be suggesting a children's day next, and after that a parrot's or a canary-bird's day." "I had no idea you were such a woman-hater," said Raleigh, in astonishment. "What's the matter? Were you ever disappointed in love?" "I? How absurd!" retorted Confucius, reddening. "The idea of my ever being disappointed in love!
I concluded that he intended to wait for a more favorable opportunity to recover possession of his wife; but I was determined that no such chance should be afforded to him. At nine in the morning we went on board of the Gazelle, and she weighed anchor immediately. Cornwood took possession of the pilot-house, declaring that he had never been confined in a canary-bird's cage before.
Delaford went away, satisfied that he had produced an impression such as he could improve if they should ever be thrown together again. The Lady of Eschalott remained anything but satisfied. She was touchy and fretful, found everything a grievance, left cobwebs in the corners, and finally went into hysterics because the cat jumped at the canary-bird's cage.
"I didn't mean to hurt 'em, really and truly," he said, "but they were all dirty and yellow with egg, you know, and I thought you'd like me to clean 'em up." "But that wasn't egg, Philly it was dear little clean feathers, like a canary-bird's wings." "Was it?" "Yes. And now the chickies are as cold and forlorn as you would feel if you tumbled into a pond and nobody gave you any dry clothes.
It seems to require more leisure and a deeper culture than we Americans have yet, to produce such a lovely flower. . . . July 19. We all have colds now, except Mr. Hawthorne, with whom earth's maladies have nothing to do. Julian and Una are homesick for broad fields and hilltops. Julian, in this narrow, high room, is very much like an eagle crowded into a canary-bird's cage!
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