Presently he flew out to a stone against which the icy current was beating, and turning his back to the wind, sang as delightfully as a lark in springtime.

the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With everything that pretty bin, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise!

there was such a precious guy at the ball last night, and I had no end of a lark with him.

" "I don't see it's much of a lark to bag what doesn't belong to you," muttered Diggory.

Some of the young ones (English) wanted to go down and have a lark on the ice, but it wasn't possible.

"Well, they thought as they'd play burglar an' break into the place an' make a regular lark of it.

well and clarify it, then season the larks with pepper and salt, put them in a pot with butter, and send them to the oven; when baked take them out of the butter whilst hot, take the jelly and season it to your taste with pepper and salt; then put the jelly and larks into a pan together, and give them a scald over the fire; so lie them in pots and cover them well with jelly.

It was pleasant to hear English larks from rich clover fields singing so joyously in the sandy waste.

And there, partially overarched by a tuft of clover, was her little all of eartha snug, warm nest with two small eggs in it, about the size and color of those of the ground-chirping-bird of New England, which is nearer the English lark than any other American bird.

Nevertheless, he was rich in the possession of a temperament which soared like a lark above suffering and disappointment.

"Who cares about being comfortable on a lark like that?" cried Laura airily.

The land never troubles them in America, and they can wear fine clothes, and be as free as the larks over the bogs.

Only to think that all the time I was grieving for you as dead and buried by the Russians among the hills over there that you were larking about with those jolly Russian girls.

Couldn't you go on a lark without telling the Captain about it, and getting us all into trouble?" To make this all the funnier, that very night three horses stabled in a rickety barn at Voisins, kicked their door down, and pranced and neighed under the Captain's bedroom window.

And a very merry journey this was; for Dawson, finding himself once more at liberty, and hearty as a lark after his long confinement and under no constraint, was like a boy let loose from school.

I can take a few smooths with a rough, it is true, but I do not find it agreeable when one play larks against me on my windows.

It's well known what black coats are, and how they never cry out so loud upon other folks as when they've had a jolly lark among themselves.

They all run and leap in the merry morning-air, and, as we watch them more nearly, we know them to be the royal family out larking before Paris is astir.

At New Haven and Cambridge lads of his age were larking beneath the elms and playing childish pranks on each other.

Now the hare is snared and dead beside the snow-yard, And the lark beside the dreary winter sea; And the baby in his cradle in the churchyard Sleeps sound till the bell brings me.

In the literary department we especially notice the Sun-Dial, a pensive tale, by Delta, but too long for extract; and the Sky-Lark by the Ettrick Shepherd, soaring with all the freshness and fancy of that extraordinary genius.

Jo, we'll have larks during hayingreal country larksand a barn dance.

It was a great lark for Satan.