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Definition of Larks
1. lark [v] - See also: lark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Larks
Literary usage of Larks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"The larks family are addicted to picnics. I say addicted, for some of their ...
When he came with his wagon, Mr. larks and the boys helped to stow away the ..."
2. The Art and Practice of Hawking by Edward Blair Michell (1900)
"CHAPTER IX LARK-HAWKING THE merlin, the lady's hawk, has always been the hawk
par excellence for larks. Hobbies, no doubt, have taken them in the old days, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"We have no leas, no larks, no rooks, No swains, no nightingales, No singing
milkmaids (save in books): The poet does his best — It is the rhyme that fails! ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"The Horned larks are the only representatives of this family found in America.
About one hundred species, of which the Skylark is the best known, ..."
5. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"(Listen to the meadow - larks, across the fields that sing), Sweet, sweet, sweet!
О subtile breath of balm! О winds that blow, О buds that grow, ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1884)
"( )i all our birds there are probably none that have given rise I» ^> much
perplexity and been the occasion of so great confusion MS the Horned larks. ..."