Crossword-Solution: ALOUETTES 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Ensemble ils s’étaient promenés, au dernier gai soleil, dans les vignes rousses toutes remplies du chant des alouettes, tout embaumées par les raisins mûrs, les oeillets des sables et les senteurs marines des plages; ensemble ils avaient chanté et dansé des rondes à ces veillées de vendange où l’on se grise, d’une ivresse amoureuse et légère, en buvant le vin doux.

Every here and there amongst the stones there was the beautiful soft green grass, and little low shrubs were in full blossom, some a of rich purple, and some of the brightest gold, while in two or three places far up in the blue sky the _alouettes_ were singing like they do in France; and every puff of soft warm wind that floated by was scented with the sweet fragrance of that little herb--I forget its name--that which the bees buzz about." "Wild thyme?" said Rodd quickly.

Probably Americans, as a class, could never be induced to eat some of the little birds--the _mauviettes_, the _alouettes_, the sparrows baked in a pie, that so delight the Frenchman.