The skylark is very generally distributed over the northern portions of the Old World, but is not found in America.
There are a few places in the United States where the skylark has been naturalized, but most of us have never heard it sing.
My neighbor has an English skylark that was hatched and reared in captivity.
The skylark is the one properly diploma'd professor.
Moreover, the skylark has the merit of punctuality and is regular.
Monkey gorged himself with bacon at their early breakfast; and long before the hour appointed for the party to come on board, the Skylark was ready for their reception, with mainsail set, flags flying, and the anchor hove up to a short stay.
He returned to his new home in the Skylark on the same day, and arrived soon enough to give Grace a sail in the yacht before dark.
Colonel Montague glanced at the Darwinian, and possibly debated in his own mind whether the crew of the Skylark was man or monkey.
It was known now that theSkylark had been to Bar Harbor, with Mr. Hines and the deputy sheriff as passengers.
The wind was light, so that the Skylark made a long passage: and Monkey did not wake the skipper till the yacht was off North-east Point.
About five o'clock she landed her passengers at the Portland Wharf, and Monkey came off from the Skylark for Bobtail.
The Skylark returned to her anchorage, and the gentlemen were landed on the wharf.
By this time dinner was ready, and the skipper of the Skylark was invited to dine in the cabin.
The Skylark arrived at Rockland in a couple of hours.
In an hour he was as near the main land as it was prudent to venture in the night, and then he put the Skylark before the wind.
The Eagle, under jib and mainsail, was standing out of the harbor, and the Skylark had to pass her on her way to the wharf.
The anchor was weighed, the jib hoisted, and the Skylark continued on her voyage to Belfast.
The Skylark was now going up Belfast Bay, close-hauled, but still laying her course.
Tom went to the wharf in the carriage, but the Skylark was three miles down the bay, on her way to Camden.
The British Skylark often receives the credit for the harmony of our four Skylarks.
The Skylark of Britain comes in the next family (the Alaudidae), which is almost cosmopolitan.
He seldom went abroad without one or two trotting at his side, and a skylark would keep Shelley in society for a week.
It was on a beautiful summer evening, while wandering among the lanes whose myrtle-hedges were the bowers of the fire-flies, that we heard the carolling of the skylark which inspired one of the most beautiful of his poems.
Or to describe it in metaphor, it may be said to come midway between the crow of the "tame villatic fowl" and the music of the nightingale in the neighbouring copse or of the skylark singing at heaven's gate.
Damsel and Skylark knew their friend; A thrill ran through the pack like fire, And little whimpers ran in quire.
Skylark dropped as Maroon drew by, Their hackles lifted, they scored to cry.
At the View Halloo the hounds went frantic, Back went Stormcock and up went Antic, Up went Skylark as Antic sped It was zest to blood how they carried head.
The woman who mothered a lad like Master Skylark here is surely fit to rear the little maid.
Thou art the bravest skylark that ever broke a shell!
Upon my heart, he hath a skylark prisoned in his throat!
Ma foil it passeth understanding--a freedskylark come back to its cage!
Upon my word," said the Queen, "it is an oddskylark cannot sleep in feathers!
This species is very similar to the European skylark from which it is distinguished by its much smaller size.
The instinctive warmth of attachment which the female Skylark bears towards her own species, even when not her nestling, is remarkable.
Note: The Australian skylark (Cincloramphus cantillans) is a pipit which has the habit of ascending perpendicularly like a skylark, but it lacks the song of a true lark.
The Missouri skylark is a pipit (Anthus Spraguei) of the Western United States, resembling the skylark in habit and song.
For me the skylark builds and sings, For me the vine her garland weaves; The swallow folds her glossy wings To build beneath my cottage eaves.
The wings exhibit almost every modification, from the almost entire abortion of the first primary in the skylark to its considerable development (fig.
The skylark is probably the most plentiful of the class in western Europe.
When soaring it may be distinguished from the Skylark not only by its song, but by its ascending in circles, which it describes, poets tell us, and perhaps correctly, with its nest for a centre.
The male is said to have a pleasing song, combining that of the Skylark and of the Linnet.
But the Skylark needs no panegyrists, so, with all due deference to those who have struck the lyre in its honour, I will endeavour to describe its habits and haunts in humble prose.
The Skylark is a generally-diffused bird, adapted by the conformation of its claws for perching on the ground, and by its length and power of wing for soaring high in the air.
It is distinguished by its smaller size, short tail, a light mark over the eye, and by its habit of perching on trees, where the Skylark is never known to alight.
Come, challenge the grim dark Gates of the Grave As the skylark sings to those infinite skies!
Never a chime of bells Had they: but as they passed from out the porch Between the sleeping graves, a skylark soared Above the world in an ecstasy of song, And quivering heavenwards, lost himself in light.
Yet is there nothing out of tune with Nature There, where the skylark showers his earliest song, Where sun and wind have moulded every feature, And one world-music bears each note along.
Suddenly Batcha heard the sweet voice of the skylark that was mounting to heaven.
He put them in the skylark's bill and told the skylark to drop them on the dragon's head.
The skylark carried this message to heaven and God Almighty, pitying the poor shepherd, took some birch leaves and wrote on them in letters of gold.
So the skylark returned from heaven and, hovering over Batcha, dropped the birch leaves on the dragon's head.
Familiar examples are Wordsworth's To a Skylark and his fine Laodamia.
Shelley's To a Skylark is in trochaic metre of 3-stress and 6-stress lines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skylark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
