Thefrolick wind that breathes the Spring, Zephyr withAurora playing, As he met her once a Maying There on Beds of Violets blew,
1682,Edmund Waller, “Of Love”, inPoems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons[2], 5th edition, London: H. Herringman, published1686, page73:
For women, born to be controul’d, Stoop to the forward and the bold, Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, thefrollick, and the loud.
1766, Joseph Addison,The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:
You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, thefrolic, and the witty; [...]
1897, Henry James,What Maisie Knew:
Beale, under thisfrolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].
Fools on paradefrolic and fuck about to make her gaze Turn to a scribble on a page by a picture that holds her absence But you're daft to think she'd care
“So, so beautiful. I'm gonna do one last roly-poly before we go. [snorting, squealing] At least I had one moment of joy in a life of drudgery. Where will the truffle hunt take us next?” “Nowhere. You're free, Jamebone. I'm releasing you from nose jail.” “Really? I can stay here in this paradise and prance andfrolic?” “Just stick tofrolicking.” “[emotional] Thank you, Mr. Bender. You're the kindest person I've ever met.” “Really? [crying] That's horrible.”
By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten thefrolic of the Carnival.
1820, Washington Irving,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quiltingfrolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s
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