From a frolicsome, rollicksome, freckle-faced boy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
He is a rollicksome stylist, though some readers may find his tone a tad too jokey at times. From Wordnik.com. [Uncouth, Unheeded] Reference
Hyper-suave in a top hat and tux was Dominic Lopez of Harlingen, Tex., who couldn't have asked for a more rollicksome finale to his first inauguration. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Groer: Report From The Mayflower Hotel Lobby On Inauguration Night] Reference
He was a great lover of out-door sports, and no game or camp amusement was ever complete without this rollicksome, good-natured knight of the playground. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
These rollicksome, frolicsome, dimpled boy babies -- and that they are boys is a fact which I trust will not be denied -- he has them everywhere!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference
He wasn't "bad" -- only he had a rollicksome, flamboyant energy that inundated everything, and made his absence often a blessing devoutly to be wished. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference
But his roving, rollicksome disposition predominated over his better qualities, and careless of his own; he was greatly harrassed in pecuniary matters. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians] Reference
He was a bachelor, a gipsy sort of fellow, full of fun and rollicksome mirth, better educated than the labourers, and with a store of original ideas which he had acquired in travelling about. From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
By degrees, as Tom deemed it prudent to appear stronger, he would dance the sailors 'hornpipe for them, or sing wild, rollicksome songs, or make beautiful rustic seats and bowers for the squaws. From Wordnik.com. [Po-No-Kah An Indian Tale of Long Ago] Reference
Let him see one of the little white beds where he will sleep after you return home, the sunny dining room where he will eat his morning porridge and his Sunday ice cream; the playground full of rollicksome youngsters, with whom he will seesaw and play tag by and by, and the busy schoolroom, where so many delightful and interesting things are sure to happen. From Wordnik.com. [What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know] Reference
A group of seamen, dancing an Irish jig to the tune of one of his most rollicksome songs. From Wordnik.com. [Paddy Finn] Reference
Of a frolicsome, rollicksome, freckle-faced boy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
I'm a frolicsome, rollicksome, freckle-faced boy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
A frolicsome, rollicksome, freckle-faced boy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
A rollicksome, laughing, drinking, ungodly young man. From Wordnik.com. [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference
Spencer Carbines -- He reminded me of that free, rollicksome -- "devil-may-care" d'Artagnan, one of the "Three Musketeers" -- He probably had a past like many other enlisted men who entered the regular army after the Civil War -- If so, for obvious reasons, we never pried into that past. From Wordnik.com. [manybooks.net] Reference
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