It was quite an old-maids' paradise, with its canaries in cages, plants and flower-pots, and faded photographs of family groups and friends.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
We must cable from the canaries of our success.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
Love-birds and canaries hung in their golden houses in the windows, and they, poor caged things, could hop as far from their wooden perches as Carol could venture from her little white bed.
"The Birds' Christmas Carol"
Kate Douglas Wiggin