larks

Example Sentences

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London’s mudlarks find castoff history along the Thames.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2021

No one but a confirmed cynic would wish to do away with all this harmless dissipation, all the innocent fun of electioneering, the speeches, riotings, mud-throwings, everybody happy as sandboys or mudlarks.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

Your dart is ter be King of the Push, an' knock about the streets with a lot of mudlarks as can't look a p'liceman straight in the face.

From Jonah by Stone, Louis

Here clothes are always drying and mudlarks at play.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry

He hated the mudlarks by the river-side who jeered as he followed the crew into the School boathouse, and he loathed the walk home with the older boys who talked incessantly of their own affairs.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton