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Example sentences for "larks"

Lexicographically close words:
lariats; laribus; laridon; lark; larking; larkspur; larkspurs; larky; larly; larmes
  1. The larks were at it again, singing as if their hearts would break for joy as they hovered in brooding exultation over the song of the future; for their nests beneath hoarded a wealth of larks for summers to come.

  2. The morning was still glorious, the larks right jubilant, and the air filled with the sweet scents of cottage flowers.

  3. Then as now had the meadow-larks called “Sweet!

  4. She could not bring herself to uncover her one dead love before those pitiless eyes, while the meadow-larks were calling and answering with such piercing sweetness.

  5. All day long the rapture of the larks filled the blue air with vanishing spirals of music, swift and passionate in the ascent, repetitive and less piercing in the narrowing downward gyres.

  6. The starlings and the sparrows enjoyed the commune of the homestead; the larks and fieldfares and green and yellow linnets congregated in the meadows, where, too, the wild bee already roved.

  7. Through the whole island went a rapid, trickling sound, most sweet to hear: the myriad voices of twittering birds, from the dotterel in the seaweed, to the larks climbing the blue slopes of heaven.

  8. They were pals, he and Rosie, who understood and appreciated each other and who enjoyed going off on little larks together.

  9. Since these larks had become a regular thing, life for George had regained its normal zest, as it does for any man once fresh interests begin to occupy the leisure moments heretofore given up to a fruitless passion.

  10. They were here on the 26th of February at least,--but not yet do the larks sing or the flickers call, with us.

  11. Mr Durant at once explained to her who Queeker was, and Queeker introduced Mr Larks as a friend who had come to see them on important business.

  12. After a time, when Billy became sane again, Mr Larks pressed him to converse more freely about this Mr Jones, but with returning health came Billy's sharp wit and caution.

  13. I have seen cause to change my plan," said Mr Larks quietly.

  14. Her lover and Mr Larks went out, followed by Queeker.

  15. By this time Mr Larks had become aware of whispering voices in a part of the room which he could not see.

  16. We're very glad to get 'em to eat; and I can assure you the larks make excellent pies.

  17. Larks and starlings chiefly, but there were other kinds amongst 'em.

  18. Mr Larks had opened the door and entered without knocking.

  19. He followed white roads that were banked with primroses and ran headlong down to the sea; he climbed the shoulder of a down on a spring morning, when the air was alive with larks carolling.

  20. I never met such girls for larks as her and 'er sister.

  21. Overhead there is nothing--nothing but the blue sky, with the larks singing, quite regardless of the War.

  22. The larks sang at last high up against the grey cloud over the frost-bound earth.

  23. The larks rose a little way to sing in the moist air.

  24. Nature sets no value upon life, neither of mine nor of the larks that sang years ago.

  25. At four o'clock in the morning the larks begin to sing: they will be half an hour earlier next month, adjusting their time nicely by the rising of the sun.

  26. Broad-pinioned birds wheeled slowly, very high; and all about us, on the tips of swaying bushes and in the tops of trees, thousands of golden larks were singing.

  27. They were in appearance like our meadow-larks back east, but their note was quite different; more joyous and lilting, but with the same liquid quality.

  28. I heard the larks singing through the open doorway, and all the little sounds of a summer day.

  29. I noticed how loudly and sweetly the larks were singing up in the blue.

  30. At dusk the nightingale sang as though no war were near its love, and at broad noonday a million larks rose above the tall wheat with a great high chorus of glad notes.

  31. The throstle's note came low and mellow from below, and in the sun's eye larks were singing wildly.

  32. Larks and sun and wind overhead; in the distance the pale mountains, patched with snow.

  33. The cloud banks sat on the horizon as on the sea; the sky very pale and blue, moist, with song of larks descending from it.

  34. The larks had been singing all the afternoon, but were now dropping down into their nests in the pasture fields; the air had just the sharpness in it which goes along with a cloudless evening sky at that time of the year.

  35. Th' sun shone breet at early morn, Burds sang sweetly on the trees; Larks wor springin from the corn, Tender blossoms sowt the breeze.

  36. Look here, Aunt Mary; it's the best place for larks you can imagine; beats Fairview hollow.

  37. But with the dignity of thirteen, and the experience of three months at Eton, Robert gave it as his opinion that Phil's larks were not worthy of the name.

  38. Taking Larks by means of a mirror is a ruse based upon the natural curiosity of this species, which leads it irresistibly towards any reflected light.

  39. Without either regret or envy it must have seen that Larks and Quails have usurped its place in popular favour for filling pates.

  40. The season of incubation over, the Larks assemble in numerous flocks, having now only their food to think of; and that being plentiful, they soon get plump and fat.

  41. It pursues Larks with such ardour that it often falls into the snares laid for these birds; but it will never attempt to get free from the trap until it has satiated its sanguinary appetite.

  42. Larks are found all over the Old World, especially in Europe and Asia.

  43. At the place where we killed the three bears, on our voyage up the river, we now found numerous elks; magpies, blackbirds, and the great prairie larks abounded.

  44. We proceeded in quick trot and gallop across the prairie, where the larks flew up before us, and ravens and crows appeared in great numbers.

  45. Larks and claret for his supper,' said the basket-woman to herself as she looked at him from head to foot.

  46. I bid them wait in the street yonder, for my mind misgave me that the man who spoke so short to them was a cheat, with his larks and his claret.

  47. You are famous for larks at Dunstable, and I make it a rule to taste the best of everything wherever I go; and, waiter, let me have a bottle of claret.

  48. Now, it occurred to the basket-woman that this man had cheated the children out of the guinea to pay for the larks and claret, and she thought that perhaps she could discover the truth.

  49. A man who was pushing his way in, and carried in his hand a string of dead larks hung to a pole, impatient at being stopped, kicked down the straw basket, and all its contents were thrown out.

  50. The clear sunshine, the murmur of streams, the odor of the freshly turned sod, the caroling of larks all are eloquent of the springtime.

  51. How the larks sang for us on that bright morning!

  52. But, alas, even meadow larks are not free from danger.

  53. In the autumn we may join a party of larks and take our family to the marshes for awhile, but we shall return.

  54. Meadow larks do sometimes go south for the winter, but usually they live their lives in their home meadows.

  55. He raised his head, looking up into the sky at some larks singing above him in the heavens.

  56. Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!

  57. Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard.


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