Lexicographical Neighbors of Laverocks
Literary usage of Laverocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heavens by Louis Untermeyer (1922)
"The following introductory stanzas are an approximation of this standard and
always effective design: laverocks The winter sun has run its wavering course, ..."
2. Revenue of the Scottish Crown, 1681 by William Purves (1897)
"8d. each ; the dozen laverocks cost 3s., the goose 10s., and the woodcocks 8s.
each. The money set apart for the expenses of the household was about £40000 ..."
3. Glen Desseray and Other Poems: Lyrical and Elegaic by John Campbell Shairp, Francis Turner Palgrave (1888)
"Ye come ere laverocks 2 cease their singing, And abide through sun and rain, ...
1 Wears, leads cautiously to shelter. - laverocks, larks. ..."
4. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg (1863)
"... wi' laverocks North. Beautiful, James. Shepherd. Is't ? Weel, I'll sing't
again—till the blue lift, ..."
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