0 a small, brown bird that is known for its beautiful singing
1 an activity done for a joke that is not intended to cause serious harm or damage:
2 a small, brown bird with a pleasant song
3 an activity done for enjoyment or amusement:
He started hang-gliding years ago as a lark.
By ' a world of nightingales and larks and deer ' presumably he means a world containing such things and lacking humans.
My action is of many types: a scraping, a buttering, a nocturnal pantry bumbling, a pursuit of a surreptitious snack, a self-indulgence, a midnight lark.
I suppose "lark"is an old-fashioned word, and they say a"giggle" in the modern idiom of these young people.
Lark and meat pie used to be sold at a well-known hostelry.
I could go on with any number—practically every bird you know; all the wagtails, the wood and the shore-larks, the meadow- and tree-pipits, the dipper.
One cannot expect a raven to hatch a lark.
It has been said the collier likes to hear the lark sing.
I know of no place where you hear the lark better than in the areas where our coal pits are situated.