1 Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she writes about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again.
2 After this, the boys dispersed for a final lark, leaving Mrs. March and her daughters under the festival tree.
3 There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.
4 My servants were astonished to see me eat it, bones and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark.
5 Only the little lark never sang.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK 6 This lark is going to turn into a milch cow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE 7 A lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed immensity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 8 It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS 9 First I was a poet; now sold for a few pence as a lark; no doubt it was that accursed poetical nature which has metamorphosed me into such a poor harmless little creature.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 10 A stout stately dame received them with a smile; but she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field-bird, as she called the lark, should appear in such high society.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 11 In the clover-fields beyond the chestnut-trees, a lark was mounting up to heaven, while pouring out her clear morning song.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 108. The Judge. 12 The Aged must have been stirring with the lark, for, glancing into the perspective of his bedroom, I observed that his bed was empty.
13 And the lark was never gayer than that excellent woman.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 14 nightingale or the lark, though, in general, the American.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 15 Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL