Citations:exaltation

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

 * 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 1594770697, 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 9780595343737, 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 9780345469663, 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 9781590305713, 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.