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  • His philosophy is rosy as a skylark's mating song.

    And there goes hubris. Angry Professor 2008

  • This explained the cause of the skylark's strange actions.

    Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life Various

  • Tumleys, sister of George Hoskins 'wife and to Joe Tumley, the little man with a voice as sweet as a skylark's.

    Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

  • While thy footfall lightly press'd tramples by the skylark's nest,

    Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

  • From heaven above came the skylark's defiant challenge; from earth beneath the fussy scream of the blackbird; on all sides the tweetings, twitterings, chirrupings, chirrings and pipings of petulant finches, and, in tender modulation to the avian chorus, the deep-throated, innumerable, drowsy hum of insects.

    "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

  • That "unbodied joy," the skylark's song and flight, is through the genius of Shelley so faithfully embodied, that it may enter as a definite joy into the lives of countless human beings.

    The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916

  • Green grass was beneath her; splendid roses, red and gold, were censers slowly swinging; the silver fountain leaped as if to meet the skylark's song.

    Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903

  • You listen to the skylark's note rising, spiral by spiral, on

    On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The coals snapped in the grate and the firelight danced merrily on the skylark's cage and the copper kettle.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • As neat of plumage, and as busy and talkative about small domestic matters as the robin, Bobby loved to watch the wifie stirring savory messes over the fire, watering her posies, cleaning the fluttering skylark's cage, or just sitting by the hearth or in the sunny doorway with him, knitting warm stockings for her rheumatic gude-mon.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

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