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When the O’Haras were ten paces away, the bird suddenly swooped off the miner’s shoulder—the miner took no notice—and flew to a table on top of which reposed an elegant metal cage with a frilly nightcloth rolled up at the top. […] The fat woman rolled the nightcloth down over the cage and its nearly raped cockatoo and stalked off with it in high outrage.
Source: wiktionary
Quiet settled over the manager’s office like the night[-]cloth over Sister Angela’s canary cage, leaving each one to brood on his or her own thoughts.
Source: wiktionary
Though it is midday the apartment is dark, the nightcloth is on the birdcage still.
Source: wiktionary
She tells me about the serving girl she had to scold for failing to remove the nightcloth from the songbirds’ cage (You see, I can be useful to you when you’re gone, she exclaims with a teasing smile and plucks a fishbone from my beard) and I provide her a fictitious account of my luncheon visit to a neighboring castellan to discuss proposed changes in the game laws.
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