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Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, of Bonham, Tex., utterly lost control of his cageful of snarling Democrats, and Minority Leader Joe Martin, of North Attleboro, Mass., quietly turned loose his herd of trumpeting Republicans.
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He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight.
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Moscow's two best jazz orchestras blared near a frisky goat, four droop-eyed sheep, a cageful of songbirds and roosters.
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These days it sounds as if a cageful of canaries has been let loose in Osadchuk's store in Moscow.
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That's where they'd caught the fiercest rats to sell by the cageful.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
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Unit 9
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