squirrel cage
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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
The world whirls like a wheel in a squirrel cage which we all tread:––only to find ourselves together after travelling many, many miles at top speed!...
From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
It's like going round in a squirrel cage.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The ends are secured in flanges like the wires of a squirrel cage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
