Let him, in a word, be a Merry Andrew, -- the patron and promoter of frolicsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

At such seasons, and they were very frequent, he took great pleasure in making me the victim of his frolicsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888] Reference

These were the gambolings of the spirit like the frolicsomeness of an animal in the full flush of its vitality or like the blooming of a plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guide to Stoicism] Reference

While she was dancing she held the attention of all; everybody's eyes followed her sinuous movements, now indicative of glowing passion, now of frolicsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Frequently, when gazing at a throng of sixty or perhaps one hundred dancers, we have been scarcely able to decide which was the most remarkable, the staid and imperturable gravity of the old men and women, or the complete absence of levity and frolicsomeness in the young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference

They were a group of merry youngsters almost maddened with the exuberant frolicsomeness of their years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Told Tales] Reference

They were a group of merry youngsters, almost maddened with the exuberant frolicsomeness of their years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Heidegger's Experiment] Reference

But if Beethoven's scherzos often lack frolicsomeness, they are endowed with humour, whereas Chopin's have neither the one nor the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

The exhilaration of the occasion had roused Midge and Molly to a high state of frolicsomeness, and it did seem impossible for them to keep still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie's Vacation] Reference

Yet, beneath all her frolicsomeness, we feel that there is a firm basis of thought and womanly dignity; so that she never laughs away our respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference

Elsie was amusing herself with Thomas, trying to cajole him to return to the frolicsomeness of his long-forgotten kittenhood, and did not seem to hear or heed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands"] Reference

By degrees he grew full of youth enthusiasm, combined with childish frolicsomeness, and ended by levelling his weapon and aiming at space, like a recruit going through his drill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference

To the outer world he was ever self-possessed, calm and dignified, of pleasant and amiable manners, and not deficient in good-fellowship, but seldom or never abandoning himself to frolicsomeness or fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

You see, these were two ordinary, happy young girls; and the stiff starch of their manners and pretensions only brought out in a stronger light, and with a broader contrast, their youthful frolicsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference

His lithe figure, neat firm footing of the stag, swift intelligent expression, and his ready frolicsomeness, pleasant humour, cordial temper, and his Irishry, whereon he was at liberty to play, as on the emblem harp of the Isle, were soothing to think of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Mentally I unhesitatingly dubbed her the most marvelous feminine creature I had ever seen, and that less on account of her loveliness than the blending of the magnificence of her bearing with the ardour, and often the frolicsomeness, of her mode of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference

About her whole being, so full of life and beauty, there was a peculiarly bewitching mixture of slyness and carelessness, of artificiality and simplicity, of composure and frolicsomeness; about everything she did or said, about every action of hers, there clung a delicate, fine charm, in which an individual power was manifest at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Torrents of Spring] Reference

They therefore collect, along with young females, in herds of several thousand to several hundred thousand, on the shores between the rookeries proper, some of them close packed next the water's edge, others scattered in small flocks a little farther from the shore on the grass, where they by turns play with each other with a frolicsomeness like that of young dogs, by turns he down to sleep at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

It seems applicable to every circumstance, and is the universal answer to every question; in short, it is the favourite slang phrase of the day, a phrase that, while its brief season of popularity lasts, throws a dash of fun and frolicsomeness over the existence of squalid poverty and ill-requited labour, and gives them reason to laugh as well as their more fortunate fellows in a higher stage of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

Indeed, scorn ” an element which does not belong to what is generally understood by either frolicsomeness or humour ” plays an important part in Chopin's scherzos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

And how shall I describe the last movement (Allegro vivace F minor, 3-4) ” its feminine softness and rounded contours, its graceful, gyrating, dance-like motions, its sprightliness and frolicsomeness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

Before he had been clothed in sailor fashion, Jocko used to be very fond of skylarking with the men forward, stealing their mess utensils and scampering up and down the rigging to evade pursuit when his mischievousness had been found out; but, after that period, he seemed to become possessed of a wonderful amount of dignity which made him give up his wild frolicsomeness, and leave off his previous habits, for he never went to the forecastle again, but restricted himself to the officers 'quarters aft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference

Chopin saw her in such moments, too, and, that the recollection might not pass away, for all time fixed her picture in her vivacious moods in the last movement, the Allegro vivace of the concerto, with what Niecks, one of the leading modern biographers of the composer, calls its feminine softness and rounded contours, its graceful, gyrating, dance-like motions, its sprightliness and frolicsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loves of Great Composers]

Stevenson's traits of character are all here: his largeness of heart, his delicacy, his sympathy, his fun, his pathos, his boylike frolicsomeness, his fine courage, his love of the sea (for he was by nature a sailor), his passion for action and adventure despite his ill-health, his great patience with others and fine adaptability to their temper (he says that he never gets out of temper with those he has to do with), his unbounded, big-hearted hopefulness, and fine perseverance in face of difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference