Menagerie Sentence Examples
This is a magnificent palace, with gardens, a menagerie and a good library.
Inside the lean-to was a menagerie of antique farm equipment.
Sclater, "On the Struthious Birds living in the Zoological Society's Menagerie," Transactions, iv.
I love all living things,--I suppose everyone does; but of course I cannot have a menagerie.
The park is beautifully laid out, and contains a small menagerie.
All collections of living beings are subject to epidemics, and in an ideal menagerie special precautions should be taken.
Each of these levels will be populated by a menagerie of monsters, none of whom harbor a particularly strong love of the Doc.
You can never be alone down PGS - we had a whole menagerie of cute little creatures wanting to be our friends.
Children of all ages delight in meeting our farm animals - a growing menagerie of donkeys, ponies and chickens.
It seems that this creature escaped from an early private menagerie.
AdvertisementIn addition to the menagerie, founded in 1838, and since then remaining one of the chief collections of the world, the Society owns a fine aquarium, and supports a museum and library.
It's possible to amass quite a menagerie.
The cast of Goldfinger was a menagerie of actors and actresses from all walks of life, all levels of fame (and future success), and they all came together to form one of the classic Bond movies.
Sniegoski. Golden and Sniegoski have collaborated on the dark fantasy series The Menagerie as well as the young readers fantasy series OutCast.
You can still visit the Tower of London and see the Lion Tower where they kept the menagerie.
AdvertisementRossetti returned to a boyhood interest in animals creating a small menagerie in the garden of his house.
From the scimitar-horned oryx to the Galapagos giant tortoise, gamers will discover and interact with a menagerie of exotic and authentic animals.
There is a menagerie of free range poultry on the farm and anyone wishing to help collect the eggs would be most welcome!
The dining room overlooks a delightful bird garden and small menagerie which includes miniature wallabies.
A month later, she landed a part in The Glass Menagerie in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania.
AdvertisementIncluded in this menagerie are fish, penguins, mollusks, sharks, and many others.
Anyhow, we'll leave instructions to ship the whole menagerie to France.
We have a veritable menagerie of small woodland creatures accompanying us.
At one point it housed a great royal menagerie containing a range of exotic animals.
Stories abound of Rossetti's stay at number 16 along with friends and a large menagerie of exotic animals.
AdvertisementThe garden and large menagerie of the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp were founded in 1843, and have been maintained at a very high level.
An old quack doctor named Levett, who had a wide practice, but among the very poorest class, poured out Johnson's tea in the morning and completed this strange menagerie.
The extensive, enclosed gardens offer a safe but exciting environment, including a menagerie of rare-breed hens.
This animal, a young female, came from the Gabun, and was kept for some months in Wombwell's travelling menagerie, where it was treated as a pet.
During the absence from home of his owner the wolf was sent to a menagerie, but pined for his master and would scarcely take any food for a considerable time.
In other cases again, as in the case of London, the income is derived partly from the subscriptions of members, who in return receive privilege§ as to admission, and partly from gate-money and menagerie receipts, all the income being expended on the maintenance of the institution and on scientific purposes.
Other parks are Lake Park, also on the lake shore, at North Point, where stands the waterworks pumping station with its tall tower; Riverside and Kilbourn Parks, east and west respectively of the upper Milwaukee river, in the northern part of the city, Washington Park on the west side, containing a menagerie and a herd of deer; Sherman Park on the west side, and Kosciusko, Humboldt and Mitchell Parks on the south side.
Its large variety of trees and shrubs, including oak, hickory, elm, maple, chestnut, birch, ash, cedar, pine, larch and sumach, its flower gardens, a palm house, ponds, a lake of 61 acres for boating, skating and curling, a parade ground of 40 acres for other athletic sports, a menagerie, and numerous pieces of statuary, are among its objects of interest or beauty.
I belong to Bailum & Barney's Great Consolidated Shows--three rings in one tent and a menagerie on the side.
Two others were received in the Zoological Society's menagerie in 1904, and another was housed there for a short time in the following year, while a fifth was received in 1906.
In 1793 the Paris Museum of Natural History was re-established by law, and Buffon's idea of attaching to it a menagerie was carried out; the latter, as the collection in the Jardin des Plantes, still survives.
In addition to the menagerie, there is an infirmary and operating room, an anatomical and pathological laboratory, and the Society holds scientific meetings and publishes stately volumes containing the results of zoological research.
Many of the zoological gardens are owned by private companies and derive their income entirely from gate-money, menagerie sales, rent of refreshment rooms, concert-halls and other auxiliary public attractions, any profits being distributed amongst the members of the company.
In the larger gardens, however, the greater part of the space is engaged by a few extensive enclosures for herds of herbivorous animals, and where no attempt is made to associate the function of a game reserve with that of a menagerie a smaller area is quite satisfactory.
The Imperial Menagerie of the palace of Schonbrunn, Vienna, was founded about 1752.
The staff, excluding purely scientific departments, costs about £6000 per annum; gardening department, about £1500 per annum; maintenance of buildings, enclosures, paths and so forth, about £4000 per annum; provisions for animals, about £5000 per annum; litter, water, heating and general menagerie expenses about £3000 per annum.
Each Greek god had a small menagerie of sacred animals, and it may be conjectured that these animals were originally the totems of various stocks, subsumed into the worship of the anthropomorphic god.
His attainments included Latin, which he could both read and write; he knew something of the English laws and language, and it may have been from an interest in natural history that he collected, during his reign, the Woodstock menagerie which was the admiration of his subjects.
It is hunted by the Arabs for its flesh and to test the speed of their horses and greyhounds; it is during these hunting parties that the young are captured for menagerie purposes.