He moves about friskily despite his age. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The Joe looked up at Mary Ann and chattered friskily. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Florian trotted off and kicked up his heels friskily. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Breaking]
Juju acted like a new dog out on the street, friskily bounding home. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND] Reference
In his 20s, he friskily challenged his grandfather to an arm-wrestling match. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Cleland, National Cathedral mason] Reference
Like a cat, it brushed friskily, against my ankle, as it made it's prescence known. From Wordnik.com. [wendchymes Diary Entry] Reference
He lifted the slave's chin and then the phallus and gave it several strong rocking upward jerks until the pony kicked and worked his legs friskily. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
But after our revered rejuvenated phrase-pinching Scaurus Princeps Senatus friskily examined their credentials, he denied them an audience on the grounds that they had no official status. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Especially it is delightful to see a vigorous young girl run a race, with her head thrown back, her limbs moving more friskily than they need, and an air between that of a bird and a young colt. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Hot bread and rolls, indulged in to an appalling extent in southern households, can do more real damage to a good, fair skin than all the winds and wintry blasts that ever shook chimneys or swept friskily around corners and alleyways. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
I've now relinquished illusions of becoming a champion barrel racer, but cherish waking up to the sounds of Choco and Quilocho whinnying for their morning feed and thundering around the corral, friskily engaged in a game of equine "tag-you're it.". From Wordnik.com. [Huellas... de los herreros: the Mexican blacksmith] Reference
When Rickson removed his hand from the bridle she bounded off rather friskily; but in another moment Aleck had reined her in, and was displaying such ready ease in the management of his steed, that it was clear my father's confidence in his horsemanship was justified. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the White-Rock Cove] Reference
“Fancy you and Algy bidding against each other like that,” said Ada Pratt archly to Lord Newhaven, for though Ada was haughty in general society she could be sportive, and even friskily ingratiating, towards those of her fellow creatures whom she termed “swells.”. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
The whilom glassy surface of the deep was now, however, a mass of short choppy waves, the sea king's ` white horses 'leaping up friskily in every direction and chasing each other as they rolled in landward, throwing aloft clouds of feathery spray in their sport, as if champing it from their bits. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) located in emerging markets (once best known for churning out products cheaply and quickly, based on designs provided by customers) now pursue a strategy of clambering friskily up the value chain to the more hallowed status of original design manufacturers (ODMs). From Wordnik.com. [The Emerging Markets Century] Reference
Biden would bound friskily onstage to the roar of the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Postbulletin.com Local News]
At Melbury's approach it galloped friskily away under the trees in a homeward direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
"There's my car coming around the corner!" cried aunt Malvina, and ran friskily out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Pot of Gold And Other Stories] Reference
There is something humbly self-deprecating yet friskily amused and confident about his approach. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
It seems as if he must have bewitched the rats which crawl friskily about him, one perching on his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation] Reference
I noticed, however, a few extra unladen camels, which take turn with others for carrying, as also several foals following lightly and friskily their dams. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
Nani was a constant threat down the right, so alarming the young full-back Holger Badstuber that the German resorted to tugging almost friskily at the United winger's shorts. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Especially is it delightful to see a vigorous young girl run a race, with her head thrown back, her limbs moving more friskily than they need, and an air between that of a bird and a young colt. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
Pratt, archly, to Lord Newhaven, for though Ada was haughty in general society she could be sportive, and even friskily ingratiating, towards those of her fellow-creatures whom she termed "swells.". From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
Washington - Britain's new prime minister, David Cameron, reports friskily that he might have to wrestle to the ground when the two leaders take time out from the weekend G20 summit in Canada to watch Sunday's. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference
When the youngsters climbed down, they straddled their hickory steeds and galloped friskily away to the creek and drank; this was part of the rites, for tradition in the town of their elders said that whoever drank of Sycamore Creek water immediately turned horse thief. From Wordnik.com. [A Certain Rich Man] Reference
If you have ever traveled on the jerky, cleanly, meandering little road that runs be tween Denver and the Park you know that it winds, and curves, so that the mountains seem to leap about, friskily, first confronting you on one side of the car window, then disappearing and seeming to taunt you from the windows of the opposite side. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
There was a deal of fire in the water, and it came and went in sheets like the reflection of lightning, insomuch that we might have believed ourselves in the heart of an electric storm; but happily the wind never gathered so much weight as to raise a troublesome sea, and though the boat tumbled friskily she kept dry, and there was nothing in her movements to render me uneasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Honour of the Flag] Reference
Melbury’s approach it galloped friskily away under the trees in a homeward direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
A good story, or a jovial expression, leap friskily out of that long, curved mouth; it was at once a paradox and a bathos -- it was the mouse coming out of its hole in Ely Cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
It ran on again, friskily, enjoying itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
The old red cow began to friskily bawl. From Wordnik.com. [Michael O'Halloran] Reference
At rest, I allow them free rein to bob friskily. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
Do they hoot happily, and flap friskily? ". From Wordnik.com. [Fernley House] Reference
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