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Definition of Lavrocks
1. lavrock [n] - See also: lavrock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavrocks
Literary usage of Lavrocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women by Thomas Young Crowell (1885)
"Though woods now are bonny, and mornings arc clear, While lavrocks arc singing
And primroses springing, Yet nane of them pleases my eye or my ear. ..."
2. A Book of Old Ballads edited by Cora Morton (1917)
"Two versions have three singing lavrocks—a better conception, as the description
undoubtedly refers to the ornamentation of either the wand itself or of its ..."
3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1913)
"... incense flung From the mountain-heights of joy, for a careless-hearted boy,
And the lavrocks rose like fountain sprays of bliss that ne'er could cloy, ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bride, Busk, and go to the braes of Yarrow: There
will we sport and gather dew, Dancing while lavrocks sing the morning; ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"He's gien to her a silver wand, With seven living lavrocks * sitting thereon.
She's gien * to him a diamond ring, With seven bright diamonds set therein. ..."
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