frisking

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"How fortunate to have such a handy thing as an atmosphere around us," cried the Frenchman; "it not only enables us to breathe, but it actually keeps us from sizzling up like griskins."

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

Both my geese and my griskins his gadlings fetchen, I dare not for dread of him fight nor chide.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

Every one declared the same; and Paddy was ordered to cook some griskins forthwith.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. by Various

My feet by this time were absolutely in griskins, nor was I by any means prepared for a most unexpected proposal, which the spokeswoman, after some private conversation with the other, undertook to make.

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

Karl was loaded with the thongs, skewers, and griskins, while Ossaroo himself was in charge of the snares.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne