Citations:exaltation

English citations of exaltation

Noun: "(rare) the collective noun for larks"

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• 1960, "Are teen-agers locusts or larks?", The Kiplinger Magazine, September 1960, page 32:

  But to you buyers, they're a big, beautiful exaltation of larks.

• 1977, Thomas B. Hess, "Up Close with Richard and Philip and Nancy and Klaus", New York Magazine, 30 May 1977:

  Of all the Photo-Realists who emerged (like a plague of locusts, like an exaltation of larks — delete the inapplicable phrase) at the beginning of the 1970s, […]

• 1989, Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances, Park Street Press (2009), →ISBN, page 192:

  In a sense, the editorial cartoons were correct when they suggested that an exaltation of larks can fly under the influence into an aspect of vulturous behavior.

• 2005, Lucille Bellucci, Journey from Shanghai, iUniverse (2005), →ISBN, page 83:

  “I'd like to think of my father being lifted to God in an exaltation of larks.”

• 2005, Linda Bird Francke, On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond, Random House (2006), →ISBN, page 232:

  It is said that an exaltation of larks, which had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut, suddenly—and inexplicably—took to the air just after sunset, wheeling and singing.

• 2008, David Richo, When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage Our Relationships, Shambhala Publications (2008), →ISBN, page 88:

  Yet, though there are vultures waiting for our bones, we can still discern an exaltation of larks around us, at birth, during a lifetime, and at death.