Then Chee-Chee explained to them that
menageries were places in the Land of the White Men, where animals were put in cages for people to come and look at.
They were born too late to see Noah's ark, and died too soon to see our
menagerie.
It was a whole
menagerie of rare and curious beasts in a wondrous hot-house, where numberless birds with plumage of a thousand hues gleamed and fluttered in the sunshine.
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.
Raffles, walking with the uneasy gait of a town loiterer obliged to do a bit of country journeying on foot, looked as incongruous amid this moist rural quiet and industry as if he had been a baboon escaped from a
menagerie.
I belong to Bailum & Barney's Great Consolidated Shows--three rings in one tent and a
menagerie on the side.
The Woozy has proved himself a good Woozy and a faithful friend," the Wizard went on, "so we will send him to the Royal
Menagerie, where he will have good care and plenty to eat all his life.
In similar ways she had experienced unusual feelings when she looked at wild animals in the
menagerie, or when she witnessed a storm of wind, or shuddered at the bright-ribbed lightning.
When the Circling Brothers' big three-ring show on a hard winter went into the hands of the receivers, he boarded the
menagerie and the horses and in three months turned a profit of fifteen thousand dollars.
A WISE and illustrious Writer of Fables was visiting a travelling
menagerie with a view to collecting literary materials.
When, as was commonly the case, I had none to commune with, I used to raise the echoes by striking with a paddle on the side of my boat, filling the surrounding woods with circling and dilating sound, stirring them up as the keeper of a
menagerie his wild beasts, until I elicited a growl from every wooded vale and hillside.
Through the dim smoke-haze the bunks looked like the sleeping dens of animals in a
menagerie.
