titlarks

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

Young John went up to Balmain; and there, sure enough, he found wrens and titlarks flitting about everywhere, cheeping amid the furze-bushes on the low stone hedges and the granite boulders, where the winter rains had hollowed out little basins for themselves, little by little, working patiently for hundreds of years.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But John went up to Balmain -- which is a high stony moor overlooking the sea -- because he preferred to be alone, and also because, having studied their ways, he knew this to be the favourite winter haunt of the small birds, especially of the wrens and the titlarks.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Not one of his own titlarks or sedge-warblers could be more shy of public observation.

Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

Okebourne I was gazing over the plain green with rising wheat, where the titlarks were singing joyously in the sunshine.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867

From the oaks in the meadows on that side titlarks mount above the highest bough and then descend, sing, sing, singing, to the grass.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

That the titlarks are singing I know, but not within hearing from here; a dove, though, is audible, and a chiffchaff has twice passed.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

It is new to me that titlarks in cages sing in the night; perhaps only caged birds do so.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

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