meadow-lark

After a time, the liquid-mellow cry of the meadow-lark, first vocal for the day, caused him to desist.

CHAPTER I 2010

Birds should abandon their abstract songs, from the “spring of the yea-ar” sound of the eastern meadow-lark to the squeaky wheelbarrow of the black-and-white warbler.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

A meadow-lark in her warm nest amid the evergreen branches as the snow dusts everything around her in magic

Archive 2008-12-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008

A meadow-lark in her warm nest amid the evergreen branches as the snow dusts everything around her in magic

Ten Christmases Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008

And the meadow-lark hied to her nest, and the mottled owl peeped from her cover.

Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance

Have you ever watched the meadow-lark singing as he sits on guard on the fence, while the rest of his brown-coated yellow-vested flock run along the field picking up seeds and insects?

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

Still, this old woman enjoyed the fruit trees 'budding promise as she patted along the railroad, and perhaps some old thrill shot again as a meadow-lark uttered his short, rich madrigal from the weather-darkened fence.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Similar in the good work it does is the meadow-lark.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

Were you ever wakened in the early morning by the clear whistle of a meadow-lark over your head, with the rich scent of the mountain pines coming to you on the pure light air of a new day, with the sun wrapping the earth in misty blue, and staining the mountains with rose?

Sunny Slopes Ethel Hueston

On the meadow the meadow-lark sings, but sad is her song to Winona,

Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance