Примеры 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.

• Lorries can be stolen for various purposes—sometimes just for a lark—and terrible things can happen.

• That would be a lark, and a very happy state of affairs.

• The arrangements suit the larks but not the nightingales.

• I agree also that it is cruel to keep larks in captivity, because it is the nature of that bird to ascend.

• It is for the county council in the first instance to consider whether larks need protection, during the open season.

• It might refer to starlings and larks, as well as to other things.

• He asked who could think of caging larks that sang at heaven's gates.