Small aviary

Usage examples of birdcage.

He looks very small against the massive filigree of the birdcage, a white plastic spaceman doll floating in front of a shifting, faceted fretwork of spun glass.

The gaps between the bars of the birdcage were larger than they had seemed, from a distance.

They slid along the structure like droplets of water along the wires of a wet birdcage, and passed over and through each other like waves, whether they met moving about the armature or sailing through the space inside.

Lieutenant Peterson tugging on my spacesuit, trying to drag me away from the birdcage, back to the shuttle.

And moreover, all of us can feel which droplets and splinters of the birdcage critter are Charlie and Leslie.

The birdcage still looks shrink-wrapped under a layer of silver insulating foil, and teardrop-shapes are bustling about it, inside and out.

Leslie dropped his hands from his face and sat straight as a tear-shape like a falling drop of mercury detached itself from one girder of the birdcage and drifted effortlessly across the open space in the center of the starship, splashing down on the opposite side of the structure.

He gestured out the window, at the stars and the sun-catcher shape of the birdcage, small enough with distance that he could have covered it with his palm.

Peterson draws us up a few short yards outside the birdcage, and we spread casually apart.

A scatter of the birdcage aliens drifts diagonally across the starship, passing beside and through one another.

Only the rock had made quite the impression on him that the birdcage did.

Leslie already had that half-assed comparison of the birdcage to some sort of sacred site stuck in his mind when he and Charlie soared through the bars, leaving the rest of the EVA team behind.

When things stop twisting in front of my eyes, all the mercury in the birdcage has gathered in an enormous blob at the center of the ship.

Min-xue braced himself in the doorway, watching the crystal bars of the birdcage slide past, and much to his own surprise managed to clear his mind.

The birdcage guys are ferrying meter-wide chips of water ice through the veils hung over their filigree space ship, busy as ants tearing apart a grasshopper.