"Meadow lark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... about following him. They stopped to hunt for fat beetles for Jimmy Skunk, and at every little patch of sweet clover for Peter Rabbit to help himself. Once they wasted a lot of time while Unc' Billy Possum hunted for a nest of Carol the Meadow Lark, on the chance that he would find some fresh eggs there. He didn't find the nest for the very good reason that Carol hadn't built one yet. Peter was secretly glad. You know he doesn't eat eggs, and he is always sorry for his feathered friends ...
— The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad • Thornton W. Burgess
... filled with fruit, And song of meadow lark and song of flute; Far from the city there are lover's fields, Lips eloquent ...
— The Five Books of Youth • Robert Hillyer
... MEADOW LARK.—Length, about ten and a half inches; extent of wings, about sixteen and a half inches; female is smaller; body, thick and stout; legs, large; hind toe reaches out beyond the tail, its claw twice as long as the middle one; bill, brown, lighter at the base, dark towards the point; feet and ...
— Bird Day; How to prepare for it • Charles Almanzo Babcock
... steeple, ring, ring out your changes, How many soever they be, And let the brown meadowlark's note, as he ranges, Come over, come over ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools |
