But at last fear put a stop to our criminal jokes, which in those days I used to call only the frolics of young men.
The money was intended for extravagant follies, and by applying it to my own frolics I did not turn it into a very different, channel.
I was rather surprised at such an invitation, and told him that such frolics were not worth listening to, and the general not pressing me no more was said about it.
Perhaps no wiser, but better able to recall the things which helped to make my girlhood a sunny one, and school frolics played no small part in them.
Frolics and pranks of all sorts were by no means unknown in the school, and often they were funny enough, but what Miss Preston did not know about those frolicswas not worth knowing.
Many of the girls had come from schools where frolics were looked upon as an almost heinous crime, and strict rules and surveillance had made their lives a burden to them.
The hero of whom we are writing was thoroughly accomplished in this way, and some of his frolics of wickedness were as extravagant as if he aimed at making his men believe he was a devil incarnate.
Thus his hours of relaxation are passed in wild and extravagant frolics amongst the lofty forests of palms and spicy groves of the Torrid Zone, and amidst the aromatic and beautiful flowering vegetable productions of that region.
And heartily he laughed at the frolics of the cunning little squirrels he spied for the first time among the branches over his head.
And when the frolics were at an end, and each one satiated with happiness and excitement, they brought him to their festal board, and gave him to eat and drink.
Nor frolics that allure,-- Aw'm strivin for thisen an bairns, To mak yor futur sure.
More nimble now than when he was young, he frolics about, cuts capers, and leaps from the bottom of a large pitcher.
As the young husband is leading his bride to the castle, fancy the laughter of cavaliers and footmen, the frolics of the pages around the wretched poor!
Sometimes, too, the frolics turn in to a scramble to catch a dragon-fly that will not be caught, and there are accidents.
The pictures of Jan Steen usually represent merry-makings, and the frolics and festivities of the ale-house, which he treated with a characteristic expression of humorous drollery, that compensated for the vulgarity of his subjects.
Of all thy list of lovers finely drest, He told me secretly He was the first; That even in thy youthful frolics wild, His love was on thee, from a very child!
I 'spect I cut a poor figure at defrolics us went to.
Dey allus had something to eat at the frolics and I had to help wid 'em.
On Saturday afternoons we had frolics, sometimes frolics 'till Sunday daylight, then sleep all day Sunday.
Niggers had frolics at dere houses sometimes on Saturday nights.
He afterwards displayed the same humour in his frolicswith the fairies, and the intercourse which he held with Messrs.
But, with such an observer, the melancholy excited by the desolate appearance of the village soon overcame all the lighter frolics of the imagination.
The riders reined up and watched the luminous frolics of the Mist, where she played thus naked, like an innocent savage thing, before them.
Frolics are used for building log huts, chopping, piling, ploughing, planting, and hoeing.
I knew I could not see; but it did not seem possible that all the eager, loving children who gathered round me and joined heartily in my frolics were also blind.
I joined in all their sports and rambles through the woods and frolics in the water.
I joined them in many of their games, even blind man's buff andfrolics in the snow; I took long walks with them; we discussed our studies and read aloud the things that interested us.
His profession familiarized him with graves and goblins, and his tastes with weddings, wassail, and sly frolics of all sorts.
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