How To Use Canaries In A Sentence
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Except (he didn't add) that instead of keeling over and dying like canaries, they trouser the money and scarper.
Current Affairs
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His earliest recollection of becoming involved as a hobbyist was when in the early seventies he purchased two pair of border Canaries for his young son Eric.
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Sheesh, a bummer to be sure, but the show isn't just about despair, faulty canaries and premature death from lung cancer.
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Away from the big resorts, the easternmost of the Canaries is a heady mix of wild volcanic landscapes, surfer-friendly beaches, theatrical modernist architecture and vineyards made up of volcanic stone circles that could have been designed by Andy Goldsworthy.
Summer holidays: 10 of the best trips for couples
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In the Canaries, the lavas are much more compositionally varied in each of these stages, ranging from tholeiitic basalts to phonolites and trachytes.
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The show should only consist of budgerigars, canaries, zebra finches, Bengalese finches, pigeons and captive bred British birds.
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She turns them all on so she can listen to the crazy chorus of crescendoing cacophony; it's a distressing dissonance like chattering chipmunks and chirping canaries conversing.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady
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Arbeau says that some consider the name Canaries to be that of a dance in use in those islands.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
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In a cage across the room, I noticed canaries that chattered incessantly to each other and seemed to sing at my presence in protest of my invading their territory.
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His first full season at the helm was a rewarding experience as he led the Canaries to the play off finals after helping them to a sixth place finish.
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Perhaps this is why he has a jaundiced view of the Canaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty.
Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
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He keeps canaries, diamond doves and a pair of quails.
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The existence of stem cells in the brain was first discovered in canaries and this discovery upset the received wisdom for many decades that the adult brain never gained new nerve cells.
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Adopt a beluga whale. Factoid: Long ago sailors nicknamed these whales "sea canaries" for their birdlike songs.
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Perhaps this is why he has a jaundiced view of the Canaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The women affect parti-coloured petticoats of home-made baize or woollen stuff, dyed blue, scarlet, brown, or orange; a scalloped cape of the same material bound with some contrasting hue; and a white or coloured head-kerchief, sometimes topped by the _carapuça_, but rarely by the vulgar 'billycock' of the Canaries.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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These people are the human "canaries" of riverine health; along with millions of dam-affected people before them, they have paid the price for a half-century of uncontrolled dam building with their farmlands, their fisheries, their forests and other natural riches that dams destroy.
Lori Pottinger: River Defenders Gather in Mexico to Warn of Global Crisis
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She was devoted to Mrs. Smith, to Mr. Smith, to their dogs, cats, canaries; and as to Mrs. Smith's gray parrot, its peculiarities exercised upon her a positive fascination.
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The people which first inhabited this land were called Canaries by the conquerors, they were clothed in goat skinnes made like vnto
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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They make the unlikeliest of record-breakers but these sportswomen are determined to beat inexperience and make the 3,000-mile journey from the Canaries to Barbados faster than any men.
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Budgies, finches, sparrows and canaries are only a few of the more than one hundred kinds of birds people keep in their apartments.
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The LoneTones, "Canaries" -- Fuzz, dissonance and reverb have been employed by roots-rockers like My Morning Jacket and Neil Young for years, so it should be no surprise that Appalachian outfit The LoneTones employ those elements with equal dexterity.
The Daily Times News Headlines
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In the past, miners used caged canaries to tell when the air in a mine was going bad; when the canaries stopped singing, it was time to get out before the air became unbreathable.
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The smallest barrel organs were tiny instruments called sérinettes or ‘bird organs’, designed to make easy the constant repetition needed to teach canaries to sing favourite airs.
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English ambassador who, deeming his own land the 'Fortunate Islands,' protested against Pope Clement VI. so entitling the Canaries in a deed of gift to D. Luis de la Cerda, the 'D.sinherited' Conde de
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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In the past, miners used caged canaries to tell when the air in a mine was going bad; when the canaries stopped singing, it was time to get out before the air became unbreathable.
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‘They cross-breed them with canaries to get what they call ‘mules’, which create different colours and varieties.’
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Janet has been keeping exotic birds including cockatiels, finches and canaries for 12 years.
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However if he can keep the Canaries in the Premiership then that will mean as much as lifting a trophy.
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We all watched as Alice stopped to coo at two canaries in a silver cage on the porch.
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Even other people's cats and dogs and canaries gave her the willies (as she, it often seemed, gave them).
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His earliest recollection of becoming involved as a hobbyist was when in the early seventies he purchased two pairs of canaries for his young son Eric.
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* Amphibole is in general very rare at Teneriffe, not only in the modern lithoid lavas, but also in the ancient basalts, as has been observed by M. Cordier, who resided longer at the Canaries than any other mineralogist.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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If anything, Gunnoe had to resist pressure to speed up "Canaries" -- to make it, in her words, more danceable.
Weekend Mixtape
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The people who are left out in this system are like canaries that miners took with them; if poisonous gas were leaking into the mine, the canaries would sicken.
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The archil of the Canaries is a very ancient branch of commerce; this lichen is however found in less abundance in the island of
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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In the Canaries, the lavas are much more compositionally varied in each of these stages, ranging from tholeiitic basalts to phonolites and trachytes.
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In these schoolrooms twenty tables, each calculated to accommodate twenty guests, were laid out, surrounded with benches, and covered with white cloths: above them were suspended at least some twenty cages, containing as many canaries, according to a fancy of the district, specially cherished by Mr. Helstone's clerk, who delighted in the piercing song of these birds, and knew that amidst confusion of tongues they always carolled loudest.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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It is evident that Teyde is by no means exhausted, and possibly it may return to the state of persistent eruption described by the eye-witness Ca da Mosto, who landed on the Canaries in A.D.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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He met Canaries officials last night to thrash out personal terms.
The Sun
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In the 19th century, underground coal miners carried canaries down into the shafts as their first line of defense against poisonous gases.
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He met Canaries officials last night to thrash out personal terms.
The Sun
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About 20 koi carp, worth more than £1, 000, were killed, and between 20 and 30 finches, canaries, waxbills and Java sparrows were allowed to escape.
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Reich had the bird breeder's equivalent of a green thumb, and was known among bird hobbyists for training canaries to sing the song of the nightingale.
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There are topknotted canaries, and it is a singular fact, that, if two topknotted birds are matched, the young, instead of having very fine topknots, are generally bald, or even have a wound on their heads. [
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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Finch mules have always been more difficult to breed than the canaries or finches themselves, but some were less difficult than others.
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The Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, for example, of which four were performed — "Saeta" and "Canaries" are both early (1949) experiments in simultaneous tempi and metric modulation, and, with their predominantly triplet -, eighth -, and dotted-eighth-note vocabulary, there are fleeting audible glimpses of Reichian phase-shifting.
Magna Carter (7): Either/Or
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Reich had the bird breeder's equivalent of a green thumb, and was known among bird hobbyists for training canaries to sing the song of the nightingale.
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Billed as the story of the first genetically engineered animal, The Red Canary charts the obsession of Hans Duncker and his attempts in the 1930s to alter radically the genetic makeup of wild canaries to create a new species.
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Teneriffe primitive strata, or even those trappean and ambiguous porphyries, which constitute the bases of Etna, and of several volcanoes of the Andes, we must not conclude from this isolated fact, that the whole archipelago of the Canaries is the production of submarine fires.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Avoid nesting material for finches, canaries and other small birds because they may have artificial fibers such as polyester contained within.
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Budgies, finches, sparrows and canaries are only a few of the more than one hundred kinds of birds people keep in their apartments.
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In the Canaries, the lavas are much more compositionally varied in each of these stages, ranging from tholeiitic basalts to phonolites and trachytes.
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A feature of the book that has attracted much attention is ‘a world list of superior singers’ including 194 species, from Australian lyrebirds to canaries, heard by himself or reported by others.
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New birds will come thick and fast - woodpeckers, kingfishers, barbets, tinkerbirds, widows, cisticolas, apalis and prinias, crombecs, various sparrows and canaries.
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Miners became fond of their birds, and as well as breeding the canaries with one another, they started to produce crosses - or mules, as they called them - with British finches such as goldfinches and greenfinches.
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When it gets dark the canaries stop singing but at dawn they start again and wake up the guards.
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About 20 koi carp, worth more than £1,000, were killed, and between 20 and 30 finches, canaries, waxbills and Java sparrows were allowed to escape.
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Vast numbers of rockfish at various life stages, especially widows, yellowtails, and blues, which tend to school in midwater, and some deeper-water species such as yelloweyes, canaries, vermilions, and bocaccios, which are not typically seen near shore.
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Beaming the sound of the birds' natural predators, such as geese or owls, at their roosts scares the canaries away from the power lines.
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The Canaries were the nearest bits of dry land to us, but Mr Jellicoe, the third mate, reckoned that they were a good hundred and fifty miles away, and dead to wind'ard; so it was useless for us to think of reaching them in a boat with her gunnels awash, and not a scrap of food or a drop of fresh water in her.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
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The goldfinches chittered and sang like drunken canaries and once in a thunderstorm a barred owl blundered into that fake crystal chandelier she had always detested.
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On September 18 they put into the excellent port of the island of Gomera, 'the best,' he says, 'in all the Canaries, the town and castle standing on the very breach of the sea, but the billows do so tumble and overfall that it is impossible to land upon any part of the strand but by swimming, saving in a cove under steep rocks, where they can pass towards the town but one after the other.'
Raleigh
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Finches, canaries and budgerigars do not need as much attention from their people and so may be an option for those with busy life-styles.
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The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the
Les Miserables
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Evidence for this is provided by stoneworts, highly specialised and complex algae that are often called the ‘coal-mine canaries of the plant world’.
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‘They cross-breed them with canaries to get what they call ‘mules’, which create different colours and varieties.’
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This and the two following numbers, 26 and 27, are only required for the humming birds; 28 is, however, a good size for the least. 24 will be found a good size for the smaller kinds of warblers and finches up to canaries. 21 is a useful general size for a great number of small birds, and will do for such a bird as the hawfinch.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Small square cages are used for canaries, while thrushes are given larger round cages.
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In the Canaries, the lavas are much more compositionally varied in each of these stages, ranging from tholeiitic basalts to phonolites and trachytes.
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The family have always kept pets, Mrs Cotter said, and currently own cats, a dog and two parrots and some canaries.
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The bokmakieries, canaries and a colony of vivid European bee-eaters that I spotted gave me just a glimpse of the nearly two hundred bird species that inhabit the reserve.
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In their study, the researchers compared two species of night-migratory songbirds - garden warblers and European robins - with two non-migratory songbirds - zebra finches and canaries.
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The song of the canaries in a cage downstairs rings out throughout the whole restaurant.
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As the names indicate, color-bred canaries are bred to attain specific colorations and song canaries for their singing abilities.
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Cardinals and doves develop their melody progressively caught in beat/heart echoes, as with spelunker canaries fluting noxious gas
Silver Spring to Phoenix
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Touristy places to avoid – especially in August – would be Balearics, Canaries, and North Africa … because they are going to be filled with thousands of French & Brits on family holidays & teenage revelry variations.
Calling in favours
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There's a slim chance of picking up Madeiran petrel on my forthcoming Canaries trip, and I now know of a site in Morocco where the hemipodes are said to be still present and calling.
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Scientists have really gotten interested in the brains of songbirds, particularly those birds that can keep learning new songs when they're adults, like canaries.
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The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
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And I will miss all of my pets - my two beloved, fun-loving dogs, my seven lively cats, my canaries, my horses, and even my chickens.
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Finches, canaries and budgerigars do not need as much attention from their people and so may be an option for those with busy life-styles.
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Iraq women are the canaries in the coalmine which is why it was always so important for the US government to ignore them and for their lapdogs in the press to do the same.
Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude
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The Canaries are great, but their main industry is package holidays, their economy is based on it.
Calling in favours
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We all watched as Alice stopped to coo at two canaries in a silver cage on the porch.
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A dozen birdcages with canaries are scattered throughout the room and attached to the walls.
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The shoemaker often took walks in the extensive town meadows, to gather groundsell and plantain for his canaries and gorse-linnets, and little
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Relaxed and carefree, they fall in love with a Mediterranean resort or a fishing village in the Canaries.
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Mr. Ramsden sells a range of poultry birds including ducks and geese, as well as a selection of ‘fancy birds’ such as canaries and budgies, but he has a policy of not accepting any birds imported within the last 12 months.
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Along with camels, pigeons, donkeys, oxen, canaries, cats and dogs, the memorial remembers the eight million horses killed in the Great War alone.