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    1. Far above I can hear a lark singing – it is a wonderful, liberating sound


    2. On the wall, half way along and to her right a security light shone weakly from behind its cage, singing a song of light as plaintive as the lark held captive beneath a towering sky


    3. So Ben has discovered the wonder of Easter – hmm, maybe you’re not doing so bad at this parenting lark, though the next few years are going to be difficult without a male role model for him to relate to


    4. bit of a lark


    5. The next morning saw a cauldron of porridge and not to miss out the boys were up like a lark to sample breakfast, but Fizzicist ordered them back and he took first serving place


    6. 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


    7. “Bugger this for a lark a man could get injured with all this steel flying around


    8. included Jean in this respect, eyeing up Peter and seeing them lark


    9. selling shoes for a lark, but I doubt it


    10. A lark called an alarm from a nearby bush, then flew off into the bright blue sky

    11. [later editions continued as follows 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


    12. As a lark, I applied for a job with Envirocon in Missoula, MT, for a contract administrator with two to four years’ experience, top pay of about $40k


    13. I was there when a Lark Cigarette was filtered over a mountain of charcoal and Walter Mitty drove his first Ford Mustang


    14. For moment, it seemed as if Johan might step forward to say something, but then the cry of an autumn lark pierced the chill air and he vanished away, as if he had never been there at all


    15. He might say something like, “In my opinion, the defendant who, let us remember, was no more than sixteen and living in a children’s home when the offence was committed, saw his actions as more of a lark than a serious crime


    16. I published Killer on Amazon as a lark and Amazon did the rest


    17. And you are relaxed and at peace, happy as a lark as you walk


    18. 50,000 heads on onlookers at a time as a lark! China almost never


    19. “They let you in!” She says with a lark


    20. "I tell you what though, this saying what you think lark could be such a laugh

    21. But we were past masters at this wildly overactive imagination lark; this was definitely just the start of things to come


    22. A lark had sung its natural song, perched there on that low branch, he remembered


    23. “Aloren,” said Max, “you’re a lark


    24. My job with Yellow Cab was really a lark for me


    25. They certainly didn’t dedicate this much time and resources to a lark


    26. Ned shot three policemen and thought it was a lark


    27. Before Ziggy came into the world, his parents had stopped on a lark at a palm-reader’s house to ask if their baby would be healthy


    28. Far up near the clouds a solitary lark was singing its joys


    29. and this coffin lark


    30. Hope flew away on the wings of a lark

    31. “This is not a lark!”


    32. Don’t you think you’re carrying this lark a bit far Teller? You’re on the staff here


    33. No fish, no pig, no shark, no lark, no animal of which is born of the regular or of Wraethworld can feed upon her in this very place, and shall they try, they shall be struck down, because they cannot transpire the iron and wood, the metal and electrical, the fist and the thorn


    34. Who'd have thought that seemingly dedicated bachelor would appreciate that most women would mind? Perhaps there was more to this psychology lark than he'd thought? It had been a very swish do, by all accounts, probably looked forward to for weeks; he vividly remembered his late wife, Angie's reaction when he had had to leave her at some social function or other


    35. God, he was getting good at this wordy lark


    36. Falling foul to their wrath, only to move on and lark


    37. drama was one of the brainchildren of Lark himself, together


    38. Lark thought the show was


    39. Lark was pleased that the show left the problem


    40. Lark spotted an anomaly in the security briefing

    41. The more Lark read, the


    42. Lark mused that


    43. Lark began to concoct a scheme to improve the


    44. Ivor Lark read the headline on the special edition of the Gopherville Gazette


    45. It did occur to Lark for a moment


    46. Actually, they came from Ivor Lark, but


    47. But first he would have to sell it to Ivor Lark


    48. Babbage and Lark, meanwhile, had settled on a definite plan of action


    49. Lark was mainly concerned with the timing


    50. had passed the notion on to Lark, who convinced himself it













































    1. The morning of Festival came along with the usual cacophony from the swifts and swallows larking about on the balcony and the priests chanting in the basilica


    2. ple of old red bricks larking around in that bag


    3. larking in the park-disenchantment brainwashes the hell out of the underworld from


    4. Larking about with Hallen whilst


    5. “Stop larking about!” The coach yells as they surface


    6. In the morning, however, he was up singing and larking round the house


    1. foreground, swallows and larks sang in the background,


    2. Now everything was silence, except for the chirp of insects and the early morning larks


    3. "What larks!" "Is it a joke?" "Betty, you're the handsomest butler!"


    4. One winter night while the soup was boiling in the fireplace, he missed the heat of the back of his store, the buzzing of the sun on the dusty almond trees, the whistle of the train during the lethargy of siesta time, just as in Macondo he had missed the winter soup in the fireplace, the cries of the coffee vendor, and the fleeting larks of springtime


    5. Does one ever grow too old, I wonder, to thrill over it? I know the blackbirds are whistling in the orchards if I could only get to them, and my father says the larks have been out in the bare places for these last four weeks


    6. A few days of frost, with a great red sun dropping behind the low range of western hills each late afternoon, and then a sudden veering of the wind to the south, and out rushed the crocuses, and up rushed the larks


    7. Wouldn't she too have been tempted in their place to get up to larks if the old cat--she forced out the horrid word, then amended it, her eye on Fate's intentions, to the old tom--were away? Anyhow, mercy, she was certain, was always best, and nothing would induce her to copy Job's disciplinary methods--


    8. All day long I am giving out table linen, ordering meals, supporting the feeble knees of servants, making appropriate and amiable remarks to officers, presiding as gracefully as nature permits at meals, and trying to look as though I were happy; while out in the garden--oh, I know how it is looking out in the garden this golden weather, how the placid hours are slipping by in unchanged peace, how strong the scent of roses and ripe fruit is, how the sleepy bees drone round the flowers, how warmly the sun shines in that corner where the little Spanish chestnut is turning yellow--the first to turn, and never afterwards surpassed in autumn beauty; I know how still it is down there in my fir wood, where the insects hum undisturbed in the warm, quiet air; I know what the plain looks like from the seat under the oak, how beautiful, with its rolling green waves burning to gold under the afternoon sky; I know how the hawks circle over it, and how the larks sing above it, and I edge as near to the open window as I can, straining my ears to hear them, and forgetting the young men who are telling me of all the races their horses win as completely as though they did not exist


    9. Yet they are beautiful young men; all are touchingly amiable, and many of the older ones even charming--how is it, then, that I so passionately prefer larks?


    10. The very turf beneath my feet had an eager spring in it; the very daisies covering it looked sprightlier than anywhere else; and up among the great piled clouds the blessed little larks were fairly drunk with delight

    11. Sometimes the path was narrow, and the trees shut out the sky; sometimes it led me into the hot sunshine of an open, forest-fringed space; once it took me along the side of a meadow sloping up on its distant side to more forest, with only a single row of great beeches between me and the heat and light dancing over the grass; and all the way I had squirrels for company, chattering and enjoying themselves as sensible squirrels living only in the present do; and larks over my head singing in careless ecstasy just because they had no idea they were probably bad larks with pasts; and lizards, down at my feet, motionless in the hot sun, quite unaware of how wicked it becomes to lie in the sun doing nothing directly you wear clothes and have consciences


    12. I was perfectly content too, because only one ear was wanted for Nieberlein, and I still had one over for the larks and the lapping of the water, besides both my happy eyes


    13. Some one downstairs was playing sadly on a cello, tunes that reeked of _Weltschmerz_, and overhead the larks shrilled an exquisite derision


    14. Space, freedom, quiet; the wind ruffling the rye; the water splashing softly against the side of the punt (there was a punt, she had extracted); the larks singing up in the sunlight; the shining clouds passing slowly across the blue


    15. And there were dark lines of forest, and flashes of yellow where the broom grew, and shining bits of water, and larks quivering out joy, and everywhere on the higher places busy windmills, and the whole world seemed to laugh and flutter and sing


    16. But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune


    17. but all were enjoying themselves, and when Jo collected her damaged property to go, her escort accompanied her, begging her to come again, "It was such fun to hear about Laurie's larks


    18. The day in Richmond Park was charming, for we had a regular English picnic, and I had more splendid oaks and groups of deer than I could copy, also heard a nightingale, and saw larks go up


    19. On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened


    20. She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertainment in listening to the larks singing far and near, and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure

    21. He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly


    22. That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy


    23. "You know, Pip," replied Joe, "as you and me were ever friends, and it were looked for'ard to betwixt us, as being calc'lated to lead to larks


    24. "Pip," said Joe, appearing a little hurried and troubled, "there has been larks


    25. The sky was blue, the larks were soaring high over the green corn, I thought all that countryside more beautiful and peaceful by far than I had ever known it to be yet


    26. And, then, to be here so young! Oh, what larks!" Meanwhile the object of this hideous admiration approached the wicket, against which one of the keepers was leaning


    27. The larks went up, twittering in the scented air above the down


    28. It was shining blue weather, with a constantly changing prospect of brown hills and far green meadows, and a continual sound of larks and curlews and falling streams


    29. Larks have gone up


    30. By this time the first light was clear and several larks were up

    31. The visit altogether was one of the pleasantest larks he had ever had, not the less so perhaps because he suspected that his queer cousin Tertius wished him away: though Lydgate, who would rather (hyperbolically speaking) have died than have failed in polite hospitality, suppressed his dislike, and only pretended generally not to hear what the gallant officer said, consigning the task of answering him to Rosamond


    32. The air was very bright and still, and there was a silence, except for the high distant song of larks


    33. Suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft


    34. herd of cattle was fields the larks rose trilling, one after another, like bubbles rising in water


    35. She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertainment in listening to the larks singing far and near, and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind, and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure


    36. That was his most perfect idea of heaven’s happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy


    37. Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls


    38. A dark cloud now and then covered the sun; the larks were soaring above the fields of winter corn; the forests were already covered with fresh young green; the meadows speckled with grazing cattle and horses


    39. He was enchanted with the fine weather; the darkening clouds, sometimes obscuring the sun; the fields over which the larks soared; the woods, just covering up the top and bottom with green; the meadows on which the flocks and horses browsed, and the fields on which plowmen were already seen—but a feeling of dissatisfaction crept over him


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