Go with me to my house, And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go; Do not deny.
I am forgetting myself, but it brings back to me the pranks we played at Oxford.
You were poor and of an age when the boy's pranks were troublesome to both of you, but you took him in.
I must have been a great trial to that woman of forty unused to the pranks of children and the tender offices of a mother.
I do not jest," continued he: "these pranks are little to my taste.
The disorders and mischievous tricks of some frolicsome companions still further augmented the disquietudes and distresses of the night: these gay people woke each other; each played a thousand giddy pranks to plague his fellow.
Th' pranks at it's played abeawt this plaze, at time an' time, would flay ony wick soul to yer tell on.
I will tell you of some of the pranks of this very Boggart, and how he teased and tormented a good farmer's family in a house hard by; and I assure you it was a very worthy old lady who told me the story.
The story goes on describing the startlingpranks of this invisible torment of honest George Cheetham's old haunted dwelling.
Other people are merry and lead a happy life, and don't care a deuce about it and--what jolly stories the innkeeper tells of such and such a one, and what pranks the hunters tell of.
I watch them sometimes all day long, their pranks are so amusing; and then when night comes, I slide down a moonbeam and sit by their pillows, and tell them stories and sing them songs.
I was surprised to see that when I made the effort I could talk and think quite as rationally as ever, though the wildest pranks were going on in my mind and vision.
Major Walter Harris Harvey, a native of Georgia once a cadet at West Point, but dismissed for his pranks (who about the middle of the fifties married Eleanor, eldest full sister of John G.
Truly, Fortune is playing curious pranks with me to-day, and seems determined to lower my royal pride.
It is the merest curiosity which leads such men to desire to behold the tricks and pranks of a professor.
The most popular were those practices known as the smoke, water and flogging games; mad, cruel pranks calculated to cause a freshman to lose health and reason.
Returned to the factory, rough horse play pranks were practised upon them.
There is no end to the funny pranks that are told of crows who have been tamed and lived with people.
A catbird is as full of fun andpranks as a mockingbird.
I left my country on account of some college pranks for which I would have been sent to Siberia, with my future ruined.
Because with us collegepranks are considered as a crime; because we are not permitted to love our country, neither in its past nor future; because those who stifle seek the air.
To visit at his house was for a child to be in a heaven of mirth and pranks continually.
He was always ready to stop and be merry with them, full of his pranks and pleasantries; though they noticed that he quite often carried a book under his arm--a history or a volume of Dickens or the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Only a few stray copies and clippings are preserved, but we know the story of some of these literary pranks and of their results.
The principal, thinking rightly that pranks of this kind reflected little credit on his school, wrathfully declared that if any of the seniors attempted to spoil the juniors' party this year there would be trouble.
But there were certain lawless spirits in the senior class who still thought pranks of that nature funny, and it was not long before plans were hatching as merrily as before.
And here he fell speedily discoursing of Moll, saying he could not sleep of nights for thinking of the pranks she used to play us, our merry vagabond life together in Spain ere we got to Elche, etc.
As to Irene, she was as fresh as a young bird, and the pranks she played, and the somersaults she turned, and the extraordinary manner in which she went on would have terrified many girls, although Rosamund scarcely noticed them.
The butler, in high dudgeon, had retired to his own apartment, where he had locked and barred the door in order to prevent any pranks of that imp, as he privately styled Irene.
I am staying with Irene; but she knows that if she plays any very seriouspranks I go.
Having served many years in the Quartier Latin, he was no stranger to the pranks and customs of medical students.
Miss Cornelia had vowed that she was done with worrying over the pranksof the manse children, but she went on worrying just the same.
He was not inclined to be hard onpranks of heedlessness or forgetfulness, but THIS was different.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pranks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
