squirrel cage
Example Sentences
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The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos.
From Time Magazine Archive
The animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs.
From Time Magazine Archive
She threw herself into such an orgy of preparations for leaving home, that the days flew around like the wheels of a squirrel cage.
From Mary Ware's Promised Land by Goss, John
She whirled her muff over and over upon her two hands like the wheel of a squirrel cage, regarding it intently with her pretty head on one side.
From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo
She also saw the squirrel cage which hung just where the light fell clearest.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Howard, Velma Swanston
