And the more Tommy Lark reflected, as he climbed the dripping Black Cliff path, the more surely was his anxious conviction of Elizabeth Luke's need confirmed by his imagination.
In the courtship of pretty Elizabeth Luke, Tommy Lark had acted directly, bluntly, impetuously, according to his nature.
Tommy Lark touched the little cake with the toe of his seal-hide boot, with the sea then nearing its climax, and alighted prostrate on the smooth slant of the big pan.
By this time Tommy Lark had connected the telegraph operator's concern with the rare emergency of a message.
In the wake of Tommy Lark he grinned, his teeth bare with delight and triumph.
Tommy Lark turned from a listless contemplation of the gray reaches of the open sea.
And both Tommy Lark and Sandy Rowl knew it well enough.
To Tommy Lark it was plain that Sandy Rowl could not lift himself out of the water.
Tommy Lark danced across to the other side of the lane, however, without great difficulty.
Three black ravens were flying overhead, and a lark was singing its evening song.
I wonder where the little larkdoes be hiding herself.
Help me out a little, and then go off on your lark yourself and recuperate.
For instance, no man who did not feel and realize with vividness, no man who lacked a genius for expression, could so select and place just the touches which describe the sudden descent of the lark in the evening sky.
Far off the little owl cried; in the thick thorn-brake the larkand finches sang; the ringdove moaned; the yellow bees were flitting round the springs.
Wake when the lark wakes; when he slumbers close Your work, ye reapers: and at noontide doze.
I certainly hope not," cried Mrs. Meadow Lark in an anxious tone.
Peter sat still until Mrs. Meadow Lark had alighted on the fence near Carol.
You are thinking that it is funny Mrs. Meadow Lark didn't go straight hack to our nest when she seemed so anxious about it.
For the same reason that in summer you never see Snowflake and Wanderer the Horned Lark and some others I might name," replied Snipper.
Somehow Peter never before had realized how handsome Carol the Meadow Lark was.
I think it is perfectly wonderful that Mrs. Meadow Lark can hide her home in such a way.
Oft shall I lie awake and mark The hours by no clanging clock, But in the dim and distant dark The crowing of some punctual cock; Then up as early as the lark To meet you by our rock.
Far the musical persistence Of a field-lark lingers low In the west where tulips blow.
It is the lark so shrill and clear: against heaven's gate he claps his wings, the morn not waking till he sings.
But gazed a space into her melting eyes So woefully, her poor heart flutter'd sore, Like a caged larkthat thrills to mount the skies.
The lark sings poized above me in the sun, Like Moslem in his gilded minaret Calling the faithful unto matin prayer.
Sun itself within your brightness, as the lark doth in the day; Soon the air will be so lumined that my weakness will not bear it, So I'll gather new strength from thee to support me on my way.
And light as a lark upon the wing, Pouring the melody of thy mirth, In sunny showers down to the earth.
No, there's a power within the soul that yearns For action, as the larkfor liberty, Pursuing ever with insatiate thirst And aspiration, some unsubstant aim.
Hymn'd by the panting lark to the young day, Joyous and loving as the sunny beam That greets the early primrose, when the dream Of flowery revels through the noontide hours First steals upon it.
The lark was rejoicing among the silvery floating clouds.
None but the sky-hid lark whose spirit is Too high for earth may vie for praise with thee In aery rhapsody.
These things done, they were just in the humour to have a lark with Betty.
Robert was almost too happy to eat; yet he had not swallowed two mouthfuls before the sun rose unheeded, the lark sang unheeded, and the roses sparkled with the dew that bowed yet lower their heavy heads, all unheeded.
Never before had his hand failed to alight, sure as a lark on its nest, upon the brass handle of the door that admitted him to his paradise.
The lark sang of something greater than he could tell; the wind got up, whispered at it, and lay down to sleep again; the sun was at hand to bathe the world in the light and gladness alone fit to typify the radiance of Robert's thoughts.
Why, that a larkhas been seen flying in the air with a golden helmet and spear, and the Senate are met to discuss the portent.
It has been told us by the priests that a lark has been seen flying in the air with a golden helmet and spear: it is this portent that we are considering and discussing with the augurs, as to whether it be a good or bad omen.
The Hindoo name of thelark is no less interesting than the Latin alauda.
The AEsopian fables of the mother-lark with its young ones, and of the lark with the birdcatcher, show us this bird full of cunning and wisdom.
The Greek name of the crested lark (koruedalos) corresponds to the Latin galerita.
The lark with the crest or with the tuft explains the custom of the Gauls, recorded by Suetonius in the Life of Julius Caesar, of representing a crested lark upon their helmets.
The lark is a form of the young man himself, the young sun who from poor becomes rich; the loom upon which the lark perches is the sky.
In the nineteenth Mongol story, the poor young man makes his fortune when he hears a lark upon his father's tomb, which has come and placed itself upon the loom.
In this triple interpretation which can be given to the word bharadvagas, nearly all the myth of the lark seems to be contained.
Christos and crista; the crested lark and St Christophoros.
The father of the lark is therefore the god himself.
Goropius explains the belief that the lark existed before the earth, by observing that the lark sings seven times a day the praises of God in the high air, and that prayer was the first thing which existed in the world.
We have seen in the preceding chapter, the crested lark in connection with St Christopher.
The crestedlark is the same as the crested sun, the sun with his rays.
XV A BIT OF A LARK Mallow gave Craig one of his favorite cigars.
Frontispiece A Bit of a Lark The Battle He That Was Dead TO J.
They are certainly very curious," remarked the King, staring at the human heads upon the lark bodies.
I'd rather be a child-lark again, and nest in a tree, than to go home to the folks in this way.
The bluejay hinted that he considered the widow's experience would enable her to do more for the baby goldfinches than could a child-lark who had never yet laid an egg, and so Twinkle was forced to yield to his superior judgment.
An instant later he had joined the eagle and Twinkle, and was flying as hard and swift as his wonderful lark wings could carry him up, up into the blue sky.
I, on my side, wanted to know if he was having a lark with me.
He wanted to know if I was having a lark with him.
I loved the morn, and ere the lay Of plaintive meadow-lark began, 'Mid dewy shrubs I tore my way, Up the wild crag where waters ran.
The blackbird, the cuckoo, the heron and the lark are the musicians of the world.
Except for its somewhat smaller size it is indistinguishable from the English skylark, and all books on Indian ornithology state that this bird soars up into the heavens and pours forth its song just as the lark does in England.
This is the common Finch-Lark of India, being a permanent resident everywhere, except the N.
What though, for shewing truth to flattered state, Kind Hunt was shut in prison, yet has he, In his immortal spirit been as free As the sky-searching lark and as elate.
