Word: lark
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part in the physical education of the boy? My experience has been with American boarding-schools, that the faculty does not place sufficient confidence in the lad, and his "honor," part of character is dwarfed. These annual sports at Harrow were very enjoyable. Fine, manly boys, happy as the lark, and perfectly ignorant of the big old fight of life before them. I saw a running match of one hundred yards, one for a quarter of a mile, and a rattling one mile race, by four contestants. Hurdle racing and jumping concluded the first day's exercise. I could...
...Advocate's" little poker game. No. He wears glasses. Not dude glasses, nor goggles, nor the dapper gold-bowed spectacles, but great round moon-eyed glasses, glasses that would stew the brain of an ordinary man. And then he reads a little, you know. He is up with the lark; he is up with the bat; in fact he is never down. But speaking of being down, I remember a grind who was down once. He was making a call. His amorous eye glared from behind its glassy shield like a cat's eye in the dark. The conversation...
...republican party. In our opinion, by far too serious a view of the question has been taken. It is unnecessary to repeat what has so often been remarked, that the students, as shown by the burlesque costumes worn in former years, regard the whole parade as a lark, Each of the other classes will carry the result of its vote, and the senior class has the same right. Indeed, if the senior class alone carried no such transparency, its vote would be more conspicuous by its absence than it will be by its presence. The appearance of the four classes...
...attend the Wagner concert on Thursday evening, found that they had missed the train on reaching the station to return home, and that they were obliged to stop in town for the night. Their chaperone was somewhat alarmed over the situation, but the young ladies thought it a jolly lark...
...Toedt kept the audience in a trance while he sang three songs (a) Nina, by Pergolesi; (b) The Lark, by Rubinstein; (c) Listz's Du Bist Wie Eine Blume. His art of rendering is of the very best, while the quality of his voice is of the mellow kind in the high notes, his low notes being sometimes almost harsh...