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menagerie
in
The Once and Future King
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- 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.†
Book 1
- 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.†
Book 1 *
- 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.†
Book 2
- The man who had been carrying the two buckets to the menagerie came back with his buckets empty.†
Book 2
- It seems to be a menagerie game.†
Book 2
- Indeed, that is why I still keep my menagerie at the Tower.†
Book 2
- 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.†
Book 3
- 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.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(menagerie) a collection of wild or unusual animals kept for exhibition; or more generally, a diverse or strange mixture of people or things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)