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Canaries   /kənˈɛriz/   Listen
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Canary  n.  (pl. canaries)  
1.
Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. "A cup of canary."
2.
A canary bird.
3.
A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
4.
A quick and lively dance. (Obs.) "Make you dance canary With sprightly fire and motion."





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"Canaries" Quotes from Famous Books



... same romance), written on the poet's voyage to the Islands of Terceras and the Canaries, has the fire and freshness of the south and the sea; all its colours are clear. The reader's ear will at once teach him to read the sigh "heigh ho" so as to give the first syllable the time of ...
— Flower of the Mind • Alice Meynell
... servant in livery would bring in a copper pan with a bunch of mint on a hot brick, and stepping hurriedly upon the narrow strips of carpet, he would sprinkle the mint with vinegar. White fumes always puffed up about his wrinkled face, and he frowned and turned away, while the canaries in the dining-room chirped their hardest, exasperated by the ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... the name 'Mr. Gastrell' was also in the passenger list, because a cousin of mine should have been on board. At the eleventh hour he was prevented from sailing, and it was upon receipt of a cable from him that I decided to catch the next boat to the Canaries ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... white azaleas, red geraniums, and gay nasturtiums seemed to have bloomed their loveliest to help the gentle mistress who had tended them so faithfully, even when misfortune's frost had nipped her own bright roses. Overhead swung a pair of canaries in their garlanded cage, singing with all their might, as if, like the London 'prentice-boys in old times, they cried, "What do you lack? Come ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 - Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... a little grudgingly. "Oh, I don't go back on that, but I was looking through the great impartial eye of the universe. Whereas a man may be good of his kind, he's only good in his kind. Tip out a cat among canaries and see what happens. My dear girl, we were the veriest birds in his paws! And notice that it isn't moral law—it's instinct. We recognize by scent before we see the shape. You never knew him. You never could. And you never ...
— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain


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