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titlark

NOUN
  1. a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage

How To Use titlark In A Sentence

  • I doubt," said the titlark, "it will be much profit to him, wonderful though it is. News from the Duchy
  • Here the titlarks were in extraordinary force, and I lingered about the spot for half an hour, awaiting the longspurs that might be hoped for in their company.
  • That pretty little tale of a titlark was but the first of a long succession of memories of his early years, with half a century of shepherding life on the downs, which came out during our talks on many autumn and winter evenings as we sat by his kitchen fire. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
  • Another island of large size in the latitude of southern Scotland, but twice as far to the west, would be “almost wholly covered with everlasting snow, ” and would have each bay terminated by ice-cliffs, whence great masses would be yearly detached: this island would boast only of a little moss, grass, and burnet, and a titlark would be its only land inhabitant. Chapter XI
  • Or why it is permissible to slay a minute bird such as a snipe, while a titlark is on no account to be touched. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • Near me a titlark every few minutes rose from the sward, and spreading his wings came down aslant, singing with all his might.
  • The melody of singing birds ranks as follows: The nightingale first, then the linnet, titlark, sky lark and wood lark. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • The wrens mostly went about their business - whatever that might be - in a sharp, practical way, keeping silence; but the frail note of the titlarks sounded here, there, everywhere.
  • At the end of a fortnight two little titlarks came out of their shells, and the next day two more.
  • The Missouri titlark is the American bird which is most like the skylark of Europe.
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