cage bird

How to use cage bird in a sentence

• Lean on the wall, and loose her cage-bird heart, To lift and breast and dance upon the breeze.

  The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" | Q

• This favorite cage-bird comes from Australia, where it is found in enormous flocks.

  The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore Wood

• The cage-bird class has as its most important representative the canary.

  Our Domestic Birds | John H. Robinson

• Its ready adaptation to confinement has made it a popular cage-bird on both sides of the Atlantic.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 | Various

• Be no cage bird who will not fly out into the sunlight when the door is opened freely.

  A Friend of Caesar | William Stearns Davis