meadow-larks

With the scent of water lilies perfuming the twilight air, meadow-larks wheeled and glided over the waters, catching flitting insects.

Wit'ch Storm Clemens, James 1999

We heard the rippling song of some meadow-larks this day, the only birds of this species we remember having seen on the Western plateaus.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

We marked out the bed, -- as the robins, meadow-larks, and bluebirds directed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

"Spring o 'the year," called the meadow-larks in clear, piercing tones.

Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

The value of the hay crop saved by meadow-larks in destroying grasshoppers has been estimated at three hundred and fifty-six dollars on every township thirty-six miles square.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

Here also in the mesquite and giant cactus were thrush and Western meadow-larks and mocking-birds mimicking the call of the cat-bird.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

Autumn, kept she her musical round; greeting the sun at his rising, together with the meadow-larks which came to dip their beaks in the sparkling water-drops; and singing to the moon and stars all night, as she bore their features within her bosom, in grateful remembrance of their beauty.

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

The very last day of winter, as if they could not possibly wait a day longer, great flocks of meadow-larks came, and settled down on the field next to us.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

(Listen to the meadow-larks, across the fields that sing!)

The California Birthday Book Various

(Listen to the meadow-larks, across the fields that sing!)

Graded Memory Selections Various