He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly.
She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertainment in listening to the larks singing far and near, and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind, and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure.
On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened.
" "The snow is quite gone down here, darling," replied her husband; "and I only see two white spots on the whole range of moors: the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.
" The sailor having strung the couroucous like larks on flexible twigs, they then continued their exploration.
Great larks went on over there, while the girls applauded from the piazza or chamber-windows, and made a gay flag for the victors to display from the tower when the fight was over.
Your mother is coming, too, and we are all going to have larks together till we are well.
The visit altogether was one of the pleasantest larks he had ever had, not the less so perhaps because he suspected that his queer cousin Tertius wished him away: though Lydgate, who would rather (hyperbolically speaking) have died than have failed in polite hospitality, suppressed his dislike, and only pretended generally not to hear what the gallant officer said, consigning the task of answering him to Rosamond.
" "I do miss the other chaps, rather," Peter confessed; "but if Jim could stay after his leg was well, we could have awful larks.
A study has found morning 'larks' are up to 35 percent less likely to suffer from depressive symptoms, based on their genes.
Larks and owls Humans and their sleep patterns are guided by circadian patterns – that is, 24-hour internal clocks that trigger alertness and sleepiness at regular intervals.
Only about seven per cent of young adults are morning larks, while by age 60 most people preferred to be up with the dawn.
The clear blue sky was dotted with fluttering larks.
The clear blue sky was dotted with fluttering larks.
The clear blue sky was dotted with fluttering larks.
,（） Most people think of themselves as either morning "larks" or night owls, but there's more to sleep cycles than that.
A study that analysed the DNA of self-professed 'nights owls' and 'morning larks' found that people who like to rise early tend to be thinner than those who go to bed later.
" When, therefore, the sun was just above the center of the forest, the girl set out on her way with a bowl of soup, but the field-sparrows, and wood-sparrows, larks and finches, blackbirds and siskins had picked up the millet long before, and the girl could not find the track.
The birds now wished to discuss the matter, and on a fine May morning they all gathered together from the woods and fields: eagles and chaffinches, owls and crows, larks and sparrows, how can I name them all?
Then I get so hungry a Ham goes but a very littleway and fowls are like Larks to me——A batch ofBread I make no more ado with than a sheet ofparliament,and I can eat a Bull's head as easilyas I used to do Bull's eyes.
