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  • Is there no menagerie or library that we could see?†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure's father is principal locksmith for the National Museum of Natural History Between the laboratories, warehouses, four separate public museums, the menagerie, the greenhouses, the acres of medicinal and decorative gardens in the Jardin des Plantes, and a dozen gates and pavilions, her father estimates there are twelve thousand locks in the entire museum complex.†   (source)
  • Gisa guides me past a bakery with cakes dusted in gold, a grocer displaying brightly colored fruits I've never seen before, and even a menagerie full of wild animals beyond my comprehension.†   (source)
  • Arranged around the boy was a whole menagerie of wind-up men, staggering around like damaged robots.†   (source)
  • Khal Drogo was a head taller than the tallest man in the room, yet somehow light on his feet, as graceful as the panther in Illyrio's menagerie.†   (source)
  • Though the upstairs shop stayed dark, with the metal gates down, still, in the shop-behind-the-shop, the tall-case clocks ticked, the mahogany glowed, the light filtered in a golden pool on the dining room tables, the life of the downstairs menagerie went on.†   (source)
  • The hedge menagerie was buried up to its haunches; the rabbit, frozen on its hind legs, seemed to be rising from a white pool.†   (source)
  • I'm famous for my love of animals, too, and have created quite a little menagerie in the compound between the garden and the restaurant for everyone's amusement.†   (source)
  • Jane felt like she did at the Central Park Menagerie, watching completely different species.†   (source)
  • When I was young my mother took me to see a menagerie in Senarin.†   (source)
  • Rounding out the lineup was the rest of our menagerie: two frogs, three goldfish, a hermit crab, a snail named Sluggy, and a box of live crickets for feeding the frogs.†   (source)
  • Whenever Sophie's mother was in a bad mood, she would call the house they lived in a menagerie.†   (source)
  • A golf course"), the newcomer to Garden City, once he has adjusted to the nightly after eight silence of Main Street, discovers much to support the defensive boastings of the citizenry: a well run public library, a competent daily newspaper, green-lawned and shady squares here and there, placid residential streets where animals and children are safe to run free, a big, rambling park complete with a small menagerie ("See the Polar Bears!"†   (source)
  • A menagerie!†   (source)
  • I had read A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie and, like everyone, I thought Williams was a genius.†   (source)
  • Char was talking to three of the soldiers who had been in the ogres' guard at the menagerie.†   (source)
  • There was also Franklin's particular friend and near neighbor at Passy, the flamboyant, once-beautiful Madame Helvetius, widow of the acclaimed philosophe Claude-Adrien Helvetius, who lived amid a menagerie of chickens, ducks, birds in aviaries, dogs, cats, and pet deer.†   (source)
  • In fact, the Kennedy children have turned the White House into a veritable menagerie, with dogs, hamsters, a cat, parakeets, and even a pony named Macaroni.†   (source)
  • The houses looked abandoned and still, dead silence hovering over them, pierced only by the weird menagerie of noises from the anxious cat.†   (source)
  • When it got so close that the petulant and neurotic motion of the rods and cams was audible, and when the steam escaping from half a hundred pre-war gaskets sounded like a menagerie of snakes, Guariglia stepped off the tracks and waved the cigar.†   (source)
  • Colorful bite-sized eggs harvested from the dwarf pigeons of the moon's farm colony, delicate pink shrimp from the Sea of Japan, elegant cheese swirls that melted on the tongue, pastries pumped with pâtés or creams in a menagerie of shapes, the gleam of caviar heaped on shaved ice, the richness of fresh fruit with frosty sugar coating.†   (source)
  • Several of these deer were so heavily infested with external and internal parasites that they were little better than walking menageries, doomed to die soon in any case.†   (source)
  • …I would rather go down to my political grave with a clear conscience than ride in the chariot of victory as a Congressional stool pigeon, the slave, the servant, or the vassal of any man, whether he be the owner and manager of a legislative menagerie or the ruler of a great nation…… I would rather lie in the silent grave, remembered by both friends and enemies as one who remained true to his faith and who never faltered in what he believed to be his duty, than to still live, old and…†   (source)
  • A menagerie was a collection of animals.†   (source)
  • The prince keeps a pride in his menagerie.†   (source)
  • The sea is wet, the sun is warm, and the menagerie hates the mastiff.†   (source)
  • On the back of the photo a message was printed: ONLY ACCESS TO MENAGERIE: CLIMB INSIDE!†   (source)
  • What if the sheriff sells the menagerie in the meantime?†   (source)
  • "But that hollow at the menagerie didn't become a wight,"" said Emma.†   (source)
  • The menagerie tent shut up like a dark Spanish fan.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon, I slipped out of the manor to the greenhouse near the menagerie.†   (source)
  • But no one knows the location of my menagerie!†   (source)
  • "He can't get her to walk in a straight line from her car to the menagerie.†   (source)
  • He said it wasn't fine enough. for the menagerie, but you might like it.†   (source)
  • " "He's going to help out in the menagerie.†   (source)
  • My fingers traced the route to the old castle and on to the menagerie.†   (source)
  • "Miss Wren meant this menagerie to be an ark, but gradually it's become a tomb."†   (source)
  • On our way out of the menagerie, Char said, "Tonight I shall triple the guard around the ogres.†   (source)
  • "And as a nice bonus," said Caul, "we paid a visit to your menagerie, as well!†   (source)
  • Make sure she doesn't go behind the menagerie for a bit.†   (source)
  • The only sounds from within the menagerie are shuffling, snorting, and quiet munching.†   (source)
  • But back at the menagerie you made it sound so easy!†   (source)
  • We should've left him at the menagerie ….†   (source)
  • Once in the menagerie, she stands behind her rope, happily charming the crowds and accepting candy.†   (source)
  • Because of the hollow in the menagerie loop?†   (source)
  • They stop, perplexed, wondering what happened to the menagerie through which they entered.†   (source)
  • "The sign on the rope said Access to Menagerie," said Horace.†   (source)
  • He's not there, but the tension among the menagerie men is palpable.†   (source)
  • THE SHOW IS ABOUT a quarter of the way through when she walks into the menagerie.†   (source)
  • Naturally, I head behind the menagerie to find out what Marlena's not supposed to see.†   (source)
  • Three weeks later, another menagerie man lost his arm while helping August feed the cats.†   (source)
  • I turned instinctively toward the menagerie because this was the cue for the elephant act.†   (source)
  • In the distance, Greg walks toward the menagerie.†   (source)
  • Apparently August stormed into the menagerie and banished everyone.†   (source)
  • When I finally reach the lot, I stop and gaze at the menagerie tent.†   (source)
  • They emerge from behind the stable tent and menagerie, sleepy, with straw in their hair.†   (source)
  • Afterward, seeking the company of animals, I enter the menagerie and tour the perimeter.†   (source)
  • THE FOX BROTHERS menagerie is now swarming with Benzini Brothers men.†   (source)
  • BECAUSE I CAN'T THINK of anything else to do, I head for the menagerie and do the usual.†   (source)
  • As soon as I can do it without attracting attention, I flee to the menagerie.†   (source)
  • WHEN I RETURN to the lot, Rosie has been installed in the menagerie tent.†   (source)
  • I HEAD FOR the menagerie, watching all the while for August.†   (source)
  • LATER THAT NIGHT, Marlena and I sneak into the menagerie and bring Bobo back to our stateroom.†   (source)
  • I find August in the menagerie tent, standing in front of the elephant.†   (source)
  • I climb to my feet and go instead to our menagerie.†   (source)
  • "Jacob--it's the menagerie," he screams over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • He beat one of the menagerie workers so badly he lost an eye.†   (source)
  • "SO THAT'S THAT," says August as we emerge from the menagerie.†   (source)
  • Marlena, waltzing with me in the menagerie.†   (source)
  • "Jacob--it's the menagerie," he screamed.†   (source)
  • Diamond Joe and I carry buckets of offal from behind the menagerie to the main train.†   (source)
  • One of them ran for Earl, who entered the menagerie and hauled August out by his armpits.†   (source)
  • I walk on, eventually settling on a patch of grass some distance from the Fox Brothers menagerie.†   (source)
  • That could be ring stock, baggage stock, or menagerie.†   (source)
  • Then she walks backward, leading them from the menagerie.†   (source)
  • I opened my eyes again and scanned the menagerie, frantic to find her.†   (source)
  • She stands in the menagerie and takes candy.†   (source)
  • INEVITABLY, PEOPLE TRY to exit the big top the way they entered it--through the menagerie.†   (source)
  • Marlena watches until all eleven have been returned to the menagerie.†   (source)
  • The walls were encrusted with hubcaps, spools of wire, license plates, ancient tire irons, hand saws, rakes, hoes, scythes, circular saw blades, and a menagerie of antique iron tools, rusted and strange.†   (source)
  • You could see if they've got anything for Scabbers, and Hermione can get her owl," So they paid for their ice cream and crossed the street to the Magical Menagerie.†   (source)
  • It was an hallucination, no different from what had happened yesterday outside that room on the second floor or the goddam hedge menagerie.†   (source)
  • Hermione, meanwhile, maintained fiercely that Ron had no proof that Crookshanks had eaten Scabbers, that the ginger hairs might have been there since Christmas, and that Ron had been prejudiced against her cat ever since Crookshanks had landed on Ron's head in the Magical Menagerie.†   (source)
  • But Harry, remembering what the woman at the Magical Menagerie had said about rats living only three years, couldn't help feeling that unless Scabbers had powers he had never revealed, he was reaching the end of his life.†   (source)
  • There had been an elephant in the menagerie at Lannisport when he had been a boy, but she had died when he was seven …. and this great grey behemoth looked to be twice her size.†   (source)
  • It bounded farther down the street, howling a menagerie of pain-lions' roars and stricken birds, cats being tortured.†   (source)
  • At five minutes to twelve stood a copy of Dr Faustus, at two lay on Occult Iconography, at six, under Mr Halloway's trailed fingers now, a history of circuses, carnivals, shadow shows, puppet menageries inhabited by mountebanks, minstrels, stiltwalking sorcerers and their fantoccini.†   (source)
  • I heard his promise at the menagerie.†   (source)
  • After I apologized, and after I delivered Father's message to Mandy, and after she made me sit down and eat breakfast on a plate, I started for the royal menagerie just outside the walls of the king's palace.†   (source)
  • It's just that, I'm afraid—a story, inspired long ago by that curious rock down below and Miss Wren's peculiar menagerie."†   (source)
  • When Bronwyn reached the bottom, she opened her trunk and handed out the peculiar sheep's wool sweaters we'd been given in the menagerie.†   (source)
  • Caul knew he'd be welcomed into Miss Wren's menagerie disguised as Miss Peregrine, and when she wasn't at home to be kidnapped, he'd nudged us after her, toward London.†   (source)
  • "What's a menagerie?" asked Olive.†   (source)
  • "Well, that's fantastic!" said Horace, tossing up his hands "You might've told us earlier, you know—like back at the menagerie, when we were planning all this!"†   (source)
  • So every day Cuthbert saved more peculiar animals from the hunters, lifting them up to the mountain by the scruffs of their necks, until there was a whole peculiar menagerie up there.†   (source)
  • It's a menagerie."†   (source)
  • He had borrowed Horace's disguising-room overcoat to keep from freezing, and though Miss Wren didn't seem surprised to see a coat hovering in the air, she was astonished when the invisible boy wearing it said, "I deduced your birds' location from the Tales of the Peculiar, but we first heard of them in your mountaintop menagerie, from a pretentious dog."†   (source)
  • I secure Bobo's door and slip into the connection, the roofless canvas tunnel that joins the menagerie to the big top.†   (source)
  • Besides, Marlena thinks Boaz is getting depressed at being left by himself in the menagerie while the others perform.†   (source)
  • In a matter of seconds, there are only three living creatures in the menagerie besides me: Rosie, Marlena, and Rex.†   (source)
  • By late morning, I'm just another menagerie man: cleaning dens, chopping food, and hauling manure with the rest of them.†   (source)
  • It is only after she is behind her rope with one foot chained to a stake that the menagerie is opened to the public.†   (source)
  • "She's back in the menagerie," I say.†   (source)
  • AFTER UNCLE AL has made his selections, our workmen tear down all of the other circus's tents except for the stable and menagerie.†   (source)
  • I need to check the other menagerie.†   (source)
  • Rosie is driven right up to the back end of the big top, which is already connected to the menagerie.†   (source)
  • " The man opposite Uncle Al rises and turns--he's the man from the menagerie tent, only now he's minus the top hat.†   (source)
  • One by one the menagerie men leave.†   (source)
  • Rosie is at the far end of the menagerie, and as my eyes adjust to the twilight I see someone standing beside her.†   (source)
  • WHEN I RETURN to the lot, a selected few of the Benzini Brothers tents are up: the menagerie, the stable tent, and the cookhouse.†   (source)
  • Camel is in such bad shape Walter seeks me out in the menagerie to tell me about it, but August is watching, so I can't return to the train.†   (source)
  • Walter sprints to the menagerie to get me, but by the time I get there Earl has already hauled August away.†   (source)
  • Marlena was standing in the menagerie tent in front of a string of stunning black and white Arabians when August first approached her.†   (source)
  • I'm working on one of her front feet when I'm suddenly aware that all human activity in the menagerie has ceased.†   (source)
  • WITH ROSIE SAFELY restored to the menagerie, I return to Barbara's tent, still clutching the bull hook.†   (source)
  • For her part, Rosie is carted out through each town in the hippopotamus wagon and then displayed in the menagerie.†   (source)
  • I'M PRESSED UP AGAINST the outside of the menagerie tent, pulling the laced seam open so I can peek through.†   (source)
  • I watch from across the menagerie as August's mouth opens in shock, then outrage, and then vociferous complaint.†   (source)
  • Animal by animal, the menagerie fills.†   (source)
  • The animals in the menagerie are no less happy to see us--the chimps scream and swing from the bars of their dens, flashing toothy grins.†   (source)
  • Then he wipes his face, leans over to retrieve his hat, bows to the astonished audience of menagerie workers, and continues on his way.†   (source)
  • The sheriff and the general manager of the Nesci Brothers are standing beside the menagerie tent, shaking hands and smiling.†   (source)
  • And so an impromptu parade is thrown together, after which the animals are led to the menagerie and the candy butchers and other concessionaires set up their wares.†   (source)
  • I was never entirely sure whether Marlena knew--there was so much going on in the menagerie at that moment that I have no idea what she saw, and I never brought it up.†   (source)
  • The other townsfolk--rubes, as Uncle Al called them--had already made their way through the menagerie tent and into the big top, which pulsed with frenetic music.†   (source)
  • It's smack in the center of the menagerie, under rays of glorious light, surrounded by banners advertising sarsaparilla, Cracker Jack, and frozen custard.†   (source)
  • A few days later, the sequined headpiece reappears--mended carefully with pink thread--and so Rosie looks glamorous as she charms the crowd in the menagerie.†   (source)
  • I RETURN TO THE ring stock car and lie on my bedroll, sickened beyond belief by the thought of what's going on in the menagerie and even more sickened that I'm doing nothing to prevent it.†   (source)
  • WHEN I GET BACK to the lot, Rosie is standing some distance from the menagerie with the general manager of the Nesci Brothers, the sheriff, and a railroad official.†   (source)
  • The puzzled menagerie men and a handful of others stood outside, their ears pressed to the seams of the great canvas tent as a torrent of angry screaming began.†   (source)
  • Of how he recognized her powerful way with horses the very moment she entered his menagerie tent three years before--sensed it from the horses themselves.†   (source)
  • You wanna see the menagerie?†   (source)
  • " It turns out that Uncle Al was so delighted by Rosie's popularity in the menagerie that not only is he insisting she take part in the Spec but also that she put on a full elephant act in the center ring immediately after the show begins.†   (source)
  • The animal dens are all open, and the center of the menagerie is a blur; staring into it, I see bits of chimp, orangutan, llama, zebra, lion, giraffe, camel, hyena, and horse--in fact, I see dozens of horses, including Marlena's, and every one of them is mad with terror.†   (source)
  • I turn toward the menagerie.†   (source)
  • A menagerie man?†   (source)
  • In the menagerie?†   (source)
  • In the menagerie itself.†   (source)
  • …cases of sauerkraut, 105 pounds of sugar, 24 crates of oranges, 52 pounds of lard, 1,200 pounds of vegetables, and 212 cans of coffee delivered to the lot; despite the tons of hay and turnips and beets and other food for the animals that is piled out back of the menagerie tent; despite the hundreds of townspeople gathered at the edge of the lot right now, first in excitement, and then in bewilderment, and now in fast-growing anger; despite all this, we are tearing down and moving out.†   (source)
  • The townsfolk--who have been staring at poster after poster of Rosie balancing on a ball for the last two weeks--are unhappy in the extreme when the show ends and they realize that the pachyderm who cheerfully accepted candy, popcorn, and peanuts in the menagerie tent never made an appearance in the big top at all.†   (source)
  • Because he is a man of few words unlike me and thee and this sentimental menagerie.†   (source)
  • Indeed, that is why I still keep my menagerie at the Tower.†   (source)
  • Amuse ourselves with the glass menagerie, darling?†   (source)
  • The man who had been carrying the two buckets to the menagerie came back with his buckets empty.†   (source)
  • ] ["The Glass Menagerie" music steals in as the scene dims out.†   (source)
  • [The scene dims out with the "Glass Menagerie" music.†   (source)
  • Cottard went his usual desultory ways, and M. Othon, the magistrate, continued to parade his menagerie.†   (source)
  • Fringing the pool were posed a brazen menagerie of lions, dragons, and unicorns, each offering a stylized ferocity that emphasized rather than offended the surrounding peace.†   (source)
  • The citizens of London sent fifty million pounds, to keep the menagerie up, and the Ladies of Britain constructed a pair of black velvet carpet slippers with the Wart's initials embroidered in gold.†   (source)
  • At their feet they could see the grass of the outer bailey—it was horrible looking down on it—and a small foreshortened man, with two buckets on a yoke, making his way across to the menagerie.†   (source)
  • It seems to be a menagerie game.†   (source)
  • ] [Screen legend: "The Glass Menagerie.†   (source)
  • He would call himself the Chevalier Mal Fet— the Ill-Made Knight So far as he could see—and he felt that there must be some reason for it somewhere—the boy's face was as ugly as a monster's in the King's menagerie.†   (source)
  • Faintly the music of "The Glass Menagerie" is heard as she continues, lightly:] Not one gentleman caller?†   (source)
  • But there, in the Conqueror's tower, a constant ebb and flow of cockneys would be livening the frost Even Arthur's menagerie, which he now kept in the Tower, would be giving a comfortable background of noise and smell.†   (source)
  • She remains by the table, picks up a piece from the glass menagerie collection, and turns it in her hands to cover her tumult.†   (source)
  • The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London subscribed for a spacious aquarium-mews-cum-menagerie at the Tower in which all the creatures were starved one day a week for the good of their stomachs—and here, for the fresh food, good bedding, constant attention, and every modem convenience, the Wart's friends resorted in their old age, on wing and foot and fin, for the sunset of their happy lives.†   (source)
  • The Glass Menagerie SCENE ONE.†   (source)
  • Music: "The Glass Menagerie.†   (source)
  • [Music: "The Glass Menagerie.†   (source)
  • -menagerie.†   (source)
  • "Is this an ocean menagerie?" said I. "Looks like it," said Montgomery.†   (source)
  • Through the dim smoke-haze the bunks looked like the sleeping dens of animals in a menagerie.†   (source)
  • Hey, Milt, I forgot about thet darned pet cougar of yours an' the rest of your menagerie.†   (source)
  • Well, I noticed the Holy Wren was showing you the menagerie.†   (source)
  • He was looking over the ground for Ciro's Menagerie—they'll all be down next year.†   (source)
  • You must be better than a whole menagerie of pets to her.†   (source)
  • You know how the keeper and the public regard the elephant in the menagerie: well, that is the idea.†   (source)
  • It is a conservatory, Axel; but is it not also a menagerie?†   (source)
  • A regular menagerie appeared in barn and shed, for pet animals were allowed.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, we'll leave instructions to ship the whole menagerie to France."†   (source)
  • It certainly is a menagerie, for these remains were not brought here by a deluge.†   (source)
  • Some of the households were lively, some mournful; some were stopping at the doors of wayside inns; where, in due time, the Durbeyfield menagerie also drew up to bait horses and refresh the travellers.†   (source)
  • They followed it, this time, as eager as children in sight of a circus menagerie—which, indeed, the scene a good deal resembled.†   (source)
  • That was how the Sunday Sun put it, and a clever and remarkably prompt "handbook" article in the Referee compared the affair to a menagerie suddenly let loose in a village.†   (source)
  • Nicole waited silently till he had passed; then she went on through lines of prospective salads to a little menagerie where pigeons and rabbits and a parrot made a medley of insolent noises at her.†   (source)
  • Smaller boys than himself flocked at his heels, as proud to be seen with him, and tolerated by him, as if he had been the drummer at the head of a procession or the elephant leading a menagerie into town.†   (source)
  • Don't you be surprised, Mr. Roach, if you find yourself in the middle of a menagerie and Martha Sowerby's Dickon more at home than you or me could ever be."†   (source)
  • She ate noisily, greedily, a little like a wild beast in a menagerie, and after she had finished each course rubbed the plate with pieces of bread till it was white and shining, as if she did not wish to lose a single drop of gravy.†   (source)
  • He was standing in front of them in an attitude like that of a showman showing off the animals in a menagerie, or of the kind clergyman when he points with a wand at the 'Scenes from Palestine, when there is a magic-lantern and he is explaining it.†   (source)
  • What'll you do with this menagerie?†   (source)
  • It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that she could only do this by working just as she did, with all her soul upon her work, and with never an instant for a glance at the well-dressed ladies and gentlemen who came to stare at her, as at some wild beast in a menagerie.†   (source)
  • The Divers approached the Agiri Fair through a menagerie of mammoth steamrollers that made way for them.†   (source)
  • …"superfluous places," with which each apartment was provided; not to mention the private gardens for each of the king's guests; not to mention the kitchens, the cellars, the domestic offices, the general refectories of the house, the poultry-yards, where there were twenty-two general laboratories, from the bakehouses to the wine-cellars; games of a thousand sorts, malls, tennis, and riding at the ring; aviaries, fishponds, menageries, stables, barns, libraries, arsenals and foundries.†   (source)
  • The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie.†   (source)
  • Exceedingly red-eyed and grim, as if he had been up all night at a party which had taken anything but a convivial turn, Jerry Cruncher worried his breakfast rather than ate it, growling over it like any four-footed inmate of a menagerie.†   (source)
  • He no longer dares to think independently, or to pursue his ideas to their logical conclusion; so, he turns the whole theory upside down and proclaims in the "People's Messenger" that it is the barn-door hens and street curs that are the finest specimens in the menagerie.†   (source)
  • I do wish you would be content with the menagerie you have already collected, instead of bringing in a specimen of every beast you come across.†   (source)
  • There was a smell within, coming up from the floor, of tethered beasts, like the smell of a menagerie of wild animals.†   (source)
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