From over in the Green Meadows rose the clear lilt of Carol the Meadow Lark, and among the alders just where the Laughing Brook ran into the Smiling Pool a flood of happiness was pouring from the throat of Little Friend the Song Sparrow.
Once they wasted a lot of time while Unc' Billy Possum hunted for a nest of Carol the Meadow Lark, on the chance that he would find some fresh eggs there.
Then he stopped and listened, and everything stopped and listened with him, and the Forest was very lone and still and peaceful in the sunshine, until suddenly a hundred miles above him a lark began to sing.
Graham had wealth of mirth by nature; Paulina possessed no such inherent flow of animal spirits—unstimulated, she inclined to be thoughtful and pensive—but now she seemed merry as a lark; in her lover's genial presence, she glanced like some soft glad light.
They couldn't row a race, go on a lark, or take care of themselves, as we do.
Bring on the doughnuts and the tarts and the shaky stuff in the entry closet, Frank, and let's have a lark.
In the severity of her early resolution, she would take Aldrich out into the fields, and then look off her book toward the sky, where the lark was twinkling, or to the reeds and bushes by the river, from which the waterfowl rustled forth on its anxious, awkward flight,—with a startled sense that the relation between Aldrich and this living world was extremely remote for her.
I'll lie down for an hour, so as to be as fresh as a lark by supper-time.
People with 'lark' genes appeared up to 11 percent less likely to be schizophrenic and had up to a third lower risk of depression.
LESSON 34 THE LARK Three boys, Dick, Sam, and Ned, went out to play in the fields, and fine fun they had.
But a lark is really the best thing to get up with.
It all comes back to whether you're a lark — an early riser — or an owl, and "most people are a little owlish," said David Welsh, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the body's pacemaker cells and was not involved in the study.
There was a lark singing.
Give a lark to catch a kite.
This revealed 15 genes that were linked to a person being a 'lark' or an 'owl'.
Nightingale In the dale, , Lark in sky, , Merrily , Merrily merrily, to welcome in the year.
When I decided to change from a night owl to a morning lark, I turned back my alarm clock 15 minutes earlier.
"" It's a bit of a lark organised by UK film critics – a gong for the top canine performance at the festival, handed out on the last Friday in the British pavilion.
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deal heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the
No one, however, was so happy as the lark at not having to obey the little King.
