Citations:rollicksome

English citations of rollicksome

Adjective: "rollicking; lively, boisterous"

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• 1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon, Chapter LV:

  Mike remains attached to our fortune firmly, as at first he opened his career; the same gay, rollicksome Irishman, making songs, making love, and occasionally making punch, he spends his days and his nights pretty much as he was wont to do some thirty years ago.

• 1880, Emily Sarah Holt, The Maidens' Lodge, Chapter III:

  ‘Come, man!’ saith the King, in his rollicksome way, ‘take a glass of that which cheereth God and man, as Scripture saith.’

• 1883, W. H. G. Kingston, Paddy Finn, Chapter V:

  The cause was very evident, for there was Larry in the midst of a group of seamen, dancing an Irish jig to the tune of one of his most rollicksome songs.

• 1884, F. Jewell, Little Able; or, The Bishop of Berry Brow, Chapter IV:

  It was out of all character for Abe Lockwood to be anything else than he had been, a rollicksome, laughing, drinking, ungodly young man.

• 1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field, page 273:

  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.

• 1899, D. Augustus Dickert, History of Kershaw's Bridgade, Chapter XXXVIII, page 479:

  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.

• 1899, William Murray Graydon, In Friendship's Guise, Chapter XIII:

  With genuine and heartfelt emotion they shook hands and looked into each other's eyes—these two who had not met for long years, since the rollicksome days of student life in Paris when they had been as intimate as brothers.

• 1903, Mary Mapes Dodge, Po-No-Kah, Chapter VII:

  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.

• 1915, John Dutton Wright, What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know, Chapter XXIV, page 86:

  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.

• 1919, Irvin S. Cobb, The Life of the Party, Chapter V, page 38:

  They did make a song of it, and it was a frolicsome song and pitched to a rollicksome key.