Word: cage
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...others bearing "the marvelous and incongruous debris of the wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among the last in the long procession were trains bearing indiscriminate cargoes of men and things. In one car was a cage with an African parrot and a box of tame squirrels and a hunchback! Everybody, not excepting the parrot, was wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement." As the Confederacy was closing down, a woman diarist wrote in wonderful magnolia prose: "There they go, the gay and gallant...
...Crimson thinclads opened a long lead on the second lap of the mile relay and held on to win and defeat Northeastern, 63-55, Saturday at Briggs Cage...
...Crimson Thinclads will face their first challenge of the New Year tomorrow as they go against an untested Northeastern team at Briggs Cage...
...revolution may already have begun. Pet alligators have fled their habitats and begun to multiply in city sewers. South American piranhas have checked out of private aquariums to infest Southern waterways. Pet snakes of many deadly varieties escape and terrorize whole neighborhoods. Argentine monk parakeets are fleeing the cage and filching the fruit from Midwestern orchards. Land snails slither out of home aquariums to gnaw the stucco outside. A fugitive kangaroo has hopped 250 miles through Illinois and zapped several cops. In every city in America, abandoned dogs rampage in wild packs through vacant lots and nocturnal streets...
...Crimson thinclads utilized their powerful field artillery Saturday afternoon, shooting down the Eagles of Boston College, 78-40, at Briggs Cage...