Larks
[lɑ:ks]
Examples
- But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I have read him all, excepting only the last little sentence, and he wishes me most particular to write again what larks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The afternoon was full of larks' singing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They twirl them out in the field and larks see them and come out and the Italians shoot them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were larks, linnets, and goldfinches--I should think at least twenty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- By going home with Mr. Jarndyce for a day or two, I shall hear the larks sing and preserve my amiability. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have sent his name up, on a scrap of paper, to the kite, along the string, when it has been in the sky, among the larks. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'm not a fashionable party and don't mean to be, but I do like harmless larks now and then, don't you? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You know, Pip, replied Joe, as you and me were ever friends, and it were looked for'ard to betwixt us, as being calc'lated to lead to larks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Pip, said Joe, appearing a little hurried and troubled, there has been larks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But fen larks, you know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And when you're well enough to go out for a ride--what larks! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You don't shoot larks do you, darling, in America? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He wishes me most particular to write what larks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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