His Majesty did not suffer like his wife from an unconquerable horror of frisky matrons; on the contrary, his abhorrence was chiefly directed against the starchy dowagers and the prudish devotes who formed the entourage of the Queen.
I was wishing I could do something pleasant this fine day; something very new and interesting, for the wind makes me feel frisky and gay.
Oh, I couldn't ride one of those horrid, frisky little beasts!
Inside of two or three hours he felt better and before he went to bed that night the doctor gave him another dose, so when Zip awoke the next day, he was feeling as frisky as ever.
Betty took one or two frisky steps along the sidewalk as if she meant to dance.
There was a clean yellow sandy bottom in one place with shoals of frisky little minnows and a small green island only a little way out, and Betty was much tempted to take off her shoes and stockings and wade across.
When Frisky reached the farmyard he crept around a corner of the barn, hoping to find a few kernels of corn.
You wouldn't understand, even if I explained," he toldFrisky Squirrel.
While Frisky managed at last to cling to a limb and right himself, Miss Kitty lost her footing and fell out of the tree completely.
Frisky Squirrel stopped, sat down, and looked up at Mr. Crow in the tree above him.
I think it's the finest sport in the world," Frisky chuckled.
Somehow there was something about her remark that startled Frisky Squirrel--something that made him shiver.
Although he had learned that the farmyard was not without its dangers, after one adventure Frisky was always sure to return, sometime, as if in search of another.
Miss Kitty Cat did not quite dare follow Frisky Squirrel to the tip where he swung.
Frisky cried as he saw her turning and twisting through the air.
And then Frisky started off along the top of the stone wall once more, at a somewhat brisker pace to make up for lost time.
After that adventure Frisky Squirrel decided to go back home.
Though Miss Kitty Cat was a fast runner, Frisky reached the foot of the tree ahead of her.
A new idea started up in the Captain's mind; his frisky horse might not like lightning.
He had a frisky horse to manage, and the Captain congratulated himself for this occasion at least that he was a skilled whip.
Drummond and his frisky horse had a ride which was likely to make both of them remember that thunderstorm.
And now, dearest mammy, what do you think of my two frisky chaperons, who planned this trip for their own improvement and mine?
Brother dog, frisky little rabbit must be caught and punished.
The opening was too small for the other to follow and as he looked in he heard only the merry laugh of the frisky rabbit, "Hee, hee!
He felt humbled as well as astonished by the moral lecture which this frisky elf with whom he had all summer been amusing himself, preached to him from the depths of a real woman's heart.
Miss Roxy looked on Miss Ruey as quite a frisky young thing, though under her ample frisette of carroty hair her head might be seen white with the same snow that had powdered that of her sister.
A frisky youth with restless cods was in the room with two girls, one of whom was also frisky, and the younger inquisitive.
She was more friskythan her sister, and more talkative.
Remounting, I soon found thefrisky mules and started them toward misery.
The staid pastor had but little recreation, and I am afraid I was always glad that Ulrica Schumacher, the frisky sister of the gunsmith, almost always beat him at chess.
Illustration] [Illustration: 6 A Narrow Escape] 6 A Narrow Escape Frisky Squirrel had a hard time pushing the wheelbarrow home with Jimmy Rabbit on top of the load of vegetables.
Frisky Squirrel was there, and Billy Woodchuck, and Fatty Coon.
I'll tell you what I'll do," he said toFrisky Squirrel.
But he hadn't any more than closed his pincers when Frisky Squirrel began to scream.
Frisky Squirrel and Billy Woodchuck had fine, bushy tails; and so had all the other forest-people, except the Rabbit family.
Frisky Squirrel and Billy Woodchuck, Fatty Coon and Tommy Fox, were all on hand to have their share of the fun.
To his friends Frisky Squirrel and Billy Woodchuck, Jimmy said something about Mr. Crow in a low voice.
By the way," Frisky added, "where did you get the hens' eggs?
And when it was his turn to leap over the others he sprang so high and so far that he jumped over Frisky Squirrel and Fatty Coon together, without once touching the ground.
Frisky Squirrel said he supposed so--but it was a strange thing to do.
I thought you didn't like Henry Skunk," Frisky said.
Frisky Squirrel, who happened to be passing Jimmy's house, stopped and watched him.
I could do it, if you'd let me start from a tree," Frisky Squirrel said.
Two months later I was as frisky as a lamb in spring time.
The little insects worried them continually, and their frisky companions, the women, were any thing but a cup of composing drink.
He further appointed that they should retain the frisky nature of the material from which they were made, and they have retained it to this day.
There was great lamentation among the young Bhaers till Dick said, "I saw Frisky on the roof of the corn-barn, may be he took them.
The party wound up with a grand promenade of all the young folks, headed by the pumpkin-coach with the Princess and driver inside, and the rats in a wildly frisky state.
But Frisky and his wife were not to be vanquished so easily; and when Rob went up to look at his nuts a few days later he was amazed to see how many had vanished.
How petulant and young and adventurous and frisky your hypochondriac must get upon a regimen like that!
Rogers tried to catch him but his own animal was so frisky that he could not hold him and do much else, and the spirit of fear soon began to be communicated to the others and soon the whole train seemed to be taken crazy.
Some lazily cropped the grass; some still more lazily reclined and chewed their cud; while frisky calves exercised their muscles in swift races and then secured their dinner from anxious mothers.
And fine and frisky he was; fine in his appreciation of good eating, fine in his judgment of good cattle and fine in his estimate of men; frisky, too, and utterly irrepressible.
And he smiled so pleasantly that Frisky Squirrel became very angry.
But whatever the answers might be, Frisky was glad that he still bore that beautiful brush.
And then there was Farmer Green's wheat--and his corn, too, which Frisky liked most of all.
I'm trying to find a few seeds to eat," Frisky explained.
But nothing ever pleased Frisky Squirrel any more.
The very floor trembled and shook, and Frisky expected that in another instant the roof would come crashing down on him.
But since the old gentleman said it was so, Frisky supposed it was the truth.
XVI Caught in the Attic Long before Frisky Squirrel reached Farmer Green's place, he began to worry for fear Mr. Crow had grown tired of waiting for him.
The ego-frisky reviewer is not what the biologist would call a pure form.
The colored man was anxious to be agreeable also, and, with quite a frisky manner for one of his age, he soon trotted back with a big jug and two tin cups.
This Color-Sergeant, in a wild and dramatic way, stood beside Howard's frisky horse and made his little speech, which was listened to with more apparent deference than had been accorded to Hancock.
My little nag was what may be termed frisky and spirited.
But Frisky didn't seem to care a bit about ropes or firemen, but just chewed and chewed like all cows do, as if there was nothing in this world to do but eat.
But Frisky knew how to run, besides she had the advantage of a good start, and now she just dashed along as if the affair was the biggest joke of her life.
But suddenly Frisky spied the open gate and the lovely green grass outside.
You boys up there better get your boots on and look after that Frisky cow.
Get app," for Frisky was going so fast now that poor little Freddie's hands were all but bleeding from the rough rope.
Aunt Sarah as she saw Frisky heading for the apple tree.
The next minute Frisky made a dash around the tree, once, then again, winding the rope as she went, and throwing Freddie out with force against the side of the terrace.
You just sit here with sister while I try to get that naughty Frisky before she spoils the garden.
When Flossie and Freddie saw them coming back without Frisky they just had to cry and no one could stop them.
But no welcome sound came to tell that poor Frisky was hiding in the brushwood.
Frisky just turned around square in front and looked the people straight in the face.
By this time the man from the barn was up and out too, and he took Frisky back to her own bed; but not until the little calf had been taken far out on the front lawn so that Freddie could see her from the window "to make sure.
Frisky was sniffing suspiciously all the time, and Aunt Sarah had taken Flossie in the barn to see the chickens' nests.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frisky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
