frolicsomeness

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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 Sparrow, Walter Shaw

With a merry laugh at her own frolicsomeness, Morlene struck the piano keys a farewell blow and arose to go.

From Unfettered A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)

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 Gilmour, James

As Niecks well says, "There is in them neither frolicsomeness nor humor"—such, for example, as we find in Beethoven's Scherzos—and he suggests that "Capriccio" might be a less misleading designation.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

A noble boy, and docile"—she murmured—"he has all the frolicsomeness of youth, with little of its giddiness.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman