lark

• Seeing a lark was always difficult: a tiny backlit vibrating speck against the huge sweep of open sky, it could elude you for many minutes. —  A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers, - [Wimsey-Vane]
• "I've suffered mor'n once from raids on my orchards and chicken coops, and found it was some town boys, off on what they called a lark, that made other people suffer But I assure you there is not the slightest possibility of any boy here having taken your chickens, sir," continued the scout master We've been on the move all day long," added Tom, "and only arrived here half an hour back. —  The Boy Scouts of Lenox
• The sky was without a cloud and in the vault overhead, blue as a piece of Delft, a lark was ascending in transports of exultant song. —  Leaves from a Field Note-Book
• The tapping of his hammer and the song of the lark were the only sounds that broke the warm stillness of the April day. —  Leaves from a Field Note-Book
• His companion was a man who delighted in what he called a lark, and whose only method of insuring a lark was by starting in with whiskey and keeping it up. —  Unleavened Bread

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