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  • noun Plural form of woodlark.

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Examples

  • I was overwhelmed by the sensations around me—woodlarks calling, the sharpness of wood smoke, the descending cool.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

  • I was overwhelmed by the sensations around me—woodlarks calling, the sharpness of wood smoke, the descending cool.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

  • Then he said to us, Will you have me make these monk-hawks whom you see bardocuculated with a bag such as you use to still brandy, sing like any woodlarks?

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Then he said to us, Will you have me make these monk-hawks whom you see bardocuculated with a bag such as you use to still brandy, sing like any woodlarks?

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Skylarks rise and fall perpendicularly as they sing; woodlarks hang poised in the air; and titlarks rise and fall in large curves, singing in their descent.

    MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

  • Her song was as inconsequent as those of the woodlarks, who, with their hurried ripple of notes and their vacillating flights, were as eager and as soon discouraged as she was herself.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • In and out of the yellow broom-coverts woodlarks played, made their small flights, and sang their small songs.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • A few woodlarks played there, but they fled at the oncoming tumult.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • Suddenly a shout rang across the hill and silenced her and the woodlarks.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • Skylarks rise and fall perpendicularly as they sing; woodlarks hang poised in the air; and titlarks rise and fall in large curves, singing in their descent.

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

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