laverock

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A' at ance they drappit frae the lift like a laverock, an' lichtit upo' the horizon, whaur the sea an' the sky met like richteousness an' peace kissin' ane anither, as the psalm says.

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  1. An obsolete or dialectal form of lark. There mighte men see many flokkes Of turtles and laverrokes. Rom. of Rose, l. 662. Now lav'rocks wake the merry morn, Aloft on dewy wing. Burns, Lament of Mary Queen of Scots.
  2. Sandy laverock the sand-lark or ring-plover, Ægialites hiaticula; also, the common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus. Also called water-laverock.

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  • And to us below, the many voices, softened into one sometimes in the pauses of severer thought, are sometimes very affecting, so serenely sweet it seems, as the laverock's in our youth at the gates of heaven At our door stand the Guardian Genii, Sleep and Silence. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • Ony ane o' them withoot the ither stan's like the ae factor o' a multiplication, or ae wing upo' a laverock (lark Towards the close of the week, he grew much feebler. —  Robert Falconer
  • A' at ance they drappit frae the lift like a laverock, an' lichtit upo' the horizon, whaur the sea an' the sky met like richteousness an' peace kissin' ane anither, as the psalm says. —  Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
  • I'm like the auld Black Douglas (wasnae't?) that likit better to hear the laverock sing than the mouse cheep. —  Catriona
  • For he pipes like a laverock, does Sandy McGraw. —  Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
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