When the blewart bears a pearl, And the daisy turns a pea, And the bonnie lucken gowan Has fauldit up her e'e, Then the laverock frae the blue lift Draps down, and thinks nae shame To woo his bonnie lassie When the kye comes hame.
Ay, it is the Gowans and the Laverock that you will like best.
The third line may be read Like a | laverockin the | lift ‸ etc.
It is an excellent exercise to analyze Jean Ingelow's Like a Laverock in the Lift and observe the pauses, holds, and substitutions.
The bonny, bonny Dell Nannie Braw Ower the Hedge Gaein and Comin A Sang o' Zion Time and Tide The Waesome Carl The Mermaid The Yerl o' Waterydeck The Twa Gordons The Last Wooin Halloween The Laverock Godly Ballants-- 1.
Rise, Jock; gang out and meet the priest; I hear his bridle ring; 130 My Baby now shall be my wife, Before the laverock sing.
I'll shoot the laverock i' the lift, The buntin on the tree, And bring them to my mither hames See if she'll merrier be.
Weariness mastered my body, but my mind still roamed; the bunk became a coffin quicklimed, and the murderer of David Borland lying in it; the laverock cried across Earn Water and the moors of Renfrew with the voice of Daniel Risk.
The rushes of the moor hissed me as I ran blindly through them; the tufts of heather over Whiggit Knowe caught at me to stop me; the laverock seemed to follow overhead, a sergeant of provost determined on his victim.
I listened and I better listened, but Borland still lay there at last, a thing insensate like a gangrel's pack, and in all the dreary land there was nothing living but the laverock and me.
It was the seventh of March, the first day I heard the laverock that season, and it sang like to burst its heart above the spot where the lad fell with a cry among the rushes.
With Professor Laverock in the chair, Mr Clott read the minutes of the last meeting, upon which, as nothing had happened, there was no comment.
After formalities, Professor Laverock called upon Mr Mann to read his scheme to the committee.
Laverock met him the other day, and asked him about some committee business.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laverock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
