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Skylarking

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sky·lark  (sklärk)
n.
An Old World lark (Alauda arvensis) having brownish plumage and noted for its singing while in flight.
intr.v. sky·larked, sky·lark·ing, sky·larks
To play actively and boisterously; frolic.


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I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
At first one would see them running about, or skylarking with each other, trying to keep warm; but before the day was over they would become quite chilled through and exhausted, and, when the cattle finally came, so near frozen that to move was an agony.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
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