frolicsomeness
Example Sentences
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This indefatigable artist is known as "the painter of cats," and she has charmingly "hit off" both the heavy laziness of the mature animal, and the frolicsomeness of the kitten.
From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Walter Shaw Sparrow
They did not seem to understand how so much playfulness and piety, fervour and frolicsomeness could dwell in the same person.
From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour
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 Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
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 Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
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 The Fortune of the Rougons by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
