He turned over on his side and peered into the shadow of the Main-Stone; but in vain, for the titlark is a hesitating, unhappy little soul that never quite dares to make up its mind. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
The melody of singing birds ranks as follows: The nightingale first, then the linnet, titlark, sky lark and wood lark. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Pipit, American, or titlark (Anthus pensilvanicus). From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
"I doubt," said the titlark, "it will be much profit to him, wonderful though it is.". From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
The scene of the tragedy was the nest of a pipit, or titlark, on the ground beneath a heather-bush. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
Or why it is permissible to slay a minute bird such as a snipe, while a titlark is on no account to be touched. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
Hearing a titlark singing his loudest, I found him perched on the rim of a tub placed for horses to drink from. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
Near me a titlark every few minutes rose from the sward, and spreading his wings came down aslant, singing with all his might. From Wordnik.com. [Round About a Great Estate] Reference
Blackbirds catch them on the ground, as do the killdeer, titlark, meadow lark, and others; while orioles hunt for them on the bolls. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Among those seeding bluebells and dry twigs and mosses I think a titlark has his nest, as he stays all day there and in the oak over. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
Young John, now he had learnt that wrens can talk, had no difficulty in recognising this other voice: it was the half-hearted note of the titlark. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
The monotonous and yet pleasing cry of the peewits, the sweet titlark singing overhead, and the cuckoos flying round, filled the place with the magic charm of spring. From Wordnik.com. [Round About a Great Estate] Reference
I went to see this extraordinary phenomenon, and found that it was a young cuckoo hatched in the nest of a titlark; it was become vastly too big for its nest, appearing. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference
The American pipit or titlark and the shore lark, both birds of the far north, and seen in the States only in fall and winter, are said to sing on the wing in a similar strain. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
One of them had a titlark, or meadow pipit, which he had just caught, in his hand, and there was a hot argument as to which of the two was the lawful owner of the poor little captive. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
He made no attempt to learn anything from them, however, but kept on practicing what the titlark had taught him, quite unconscious of anything singular or unpatriotic in such a course. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
The dispute waxed hotter as they sat there, and at last when it got to the point of threats of cuffs on the ear and slaps on the face they agreed to fight it out, the victor to have the titlark. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
One of Mr. Barrington's linnets, for example, after being educated under a titlark, was put into a room with two birds of his own species, where he heard them sing freely every day for three months. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
Then the young birdcatcher returned to the spot, and creeping quietly up to within five or six feet of the nest threw his hat so that it fell over the sitting titlark; but after having thus secured it he refused to give it up. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
When I came to recollect and inquire, I could not find that any cuckoo had ever been seen in these parts, except in the nest of the wagtail, the hedge-sparrow, the titlark, the white-throat, and the redbreast, all soft-billed insectivorous birds. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference
Transactions "for 1773 (Vol. 63); he says:" I have educated nestling linnets under the three best singing larks -- the skylark, woodlark, and titlark, every one of which, instead of the linnet's song, adhered entirely to that of their respective instructors. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
Above, on the giant downs, were stony waste places, and heather and gorse, where the rabbits live, and had for neighbours the adder, linnet, and wheatear, and the small grey titlark that soared up and dropped back to earth all day to his tinkling little tune. From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
I thought myself so much to the earliest leaf and the first meadow orchis -- so important that I should note the first zee-zee of the titlark -- that I should pronounce it summer, because now the oaks were green; I must not miss a day nor an hour in the fields lest something should escape me. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XI] Reference
The fact that a common Argentine titlark, a non-migrant and a weak flyer, has been met with at the South Shetland Islands, close to the antarctic continent, shows that the journey may be easily accomplished by birds with strong flight; and that even the winter climate of that unknown land is not too severe to allow an accidental colonist, like this small delicate bird, to survive. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
A few feet away, and the boys proceeded to take off their jackets and roll up their shirt-sleeves, after which they faced one another, and were just about to begin when Caleb, thrusting out his crook, turned the hat over and away flew the titlark. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
"It is a curious fact, and one, I believe, not hitherto noticed by naturalists, that the cuckoo deposits its egg in the nests of the titlark, robin, and wagtail by means of its foot. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
When the note of the titlark linnet was thoroughly fixed, I hung the bird in a room with two common linnets for a quarter of a year, which were full in song; the titlark linnet, however, did not borrow any passage from the linnet's song, but adhered stedfastly to that of the titlark. ". From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
"What will you give him?" asked the titlark. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
Will he? "the titlark piped back ghostlily. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
"Ah!" said the titlark, "I told you that secret. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
Caleb Bawcombe -- An old shepherd's love of his home -- Fifty years 'shepherding -- Bawcombe's singular appearance -- A tale of a titlark -- Caleb. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
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