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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But canaries are idiots of smell and wizards of hearing and love.
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Glancing up, I saw a beautiful yellow bird perched on a telegraph wire, looking like a prize long-tailed canary .
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He keeps canaries, diamond doves and a pair of quails.
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Here, for instance, were hand-sized wolves, with the wings of canaries.
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In the war my Grannie's canaries were blown through the window and on to the street.
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Porches are enclosed with metal bars, like canary cages.
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When the canaries stopped singing, the miners knew it was time to get out of there.