laverock
noun
a lark, especially a skylark.
lavrock
-
a variation of
laverock.
Example Sentences
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Meg, muckin' at Geordie's byre, Wrought as gin her judgment was wrang; Ilk daud o' the scartle strake fire, While loud as a lavrock she sang.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Still art thou singing, lavrock of her morn, Singing to heaven in that first golden glow, Singing above her mountains and her sea!
From The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems by Spencer Baird Nichols
And whan the wee flow'rets begin then to blaw, The lavrock, the peasweep, and skirlin' pickmaw, Shall hiss the bleak winter to Lapland awa, Then we 'll ply the blythe hours at the sawin' o't.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
The hawk dropped down into the pine-forest And, far below, the lavrock ruffled her wings Blossomwise over her winsome secret nest.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes
When the glede's in the blue cloud, The lavrock lies still; When the hound's in the green-wood, The hind keeps the hill.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
