Used them as men use mirrors to catch larks, to dazzle silly women.

You will grant me in return, I hope, that if the sky fell we should all catch larks.

If it is repealed, sin and death will vanish from the world,... the skies will fall, and we shall all catch larks.

When, for instance, we say 'If the sky falls, we shall catch larks,' what is it that we really mean to assert?

I do not admit it even at that, just as I do not admit that if the sky fell we should all catch larks.

By robbing Peter he paid Paul, he kept the moon from the wolves, and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

Have you never caught larks in the fields, and cooked them between two stones?

'If the sky falls, we shall catch larks' may be compressed into 'Sky-falling is lark-catching.'

"When the sky falls we shall catch larks."