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lark
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synonyms: Alaudidae ???
tags: [avian]
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Definition:a diverse family of birds with most species occuring in Europe and Australia. They are famous for their flight song, especially the Eurasian skylark variety.
photo: by Daniel Pettersson (http://www.fagelfoto.se ) under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.sound file: by Phoenicurus ochruros, XC423566 (original amplified slightly)
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I have had a sirloin so large, that I have been forced to make three bites of it; but this is rare. My servants were astonished to see me eat it, bones and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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"How much is a lark?" The seller himself does not know the value of a lark. He scratches his head and asks whatever comes into it, a rouble, or three kopecks, according to the purchaser.
Anton Chekhov. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
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Anthony Bourdain: I am above all things a man of the people, a regular Joe, a man as moved by a simple slab of mom's meatloaf as I am of larks' tongues in aspic stuffed with truffles and moistened with the tears of baby unicorns.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, season 11: Newfoundland (May 13, 2018)
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Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land;
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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‘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.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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The Aged must have been stirring with the lark, for, glancing into the perspective of his bedroom, I observed that his bed was empty.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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along the top of the wall was a row of birds; sparrows, a thrush, a lark, and even a pheasant, all jostling and sidling for position before their laughing mistress.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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