The two dogs who had come over in such rollicking fashion, trotted back again quietly enough, but Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax felt half inclined to dance all the way home, so delighted were they over the success of this splendid plan for Regie.
Like a number of rollicking lads, the Nor'-Westers made very free with the natives, to the disgust of Captain Thorn.
While this seems absurd, it is fairly evident that the mind of the author was busied with something more than the mere narration of rollicking adventure, more even than a satire on Roman life.
In the intervals between the scenes, the chorus sing rollicking topical songs or bits of exquisite lyric, or in the name of the poet directly exhort and admonish the audience in the so-called Parabasis.
To hide her confusion, she started a merry jig tune, so rollicking and irresistible that hands and feet all through the rooms began to pat the time.
But Gay, her spirits rising in the wintry air, was in her most rollicking mood.
Fastened by a stout rope to one of the high posts of an old-fashioned bedstead was a rollicking urchin of about eight years of age, who seemed to be having a very good time, notwithstanding his captivity.
Although as a rule a lively, rollicking boy, when it came to anything connected with his prayers, he was unaffectedly and almost comically solemn about it.
Old Winter seemed to have hoarded up all his stock of snow and cold weather, and left it as an inheritance to his wild and rollicking heir, that was expending it with lavish extravagance.
Steamers, from whose spacious saloons the tourist and the bride have watched the picturesque margin of the Hudson, were now black with clusters of rollicking volunteers, who climbed into the yards, and pitched headlong from the wheel-houses.
The people in the train were rollicking and well-disposed, and black bottles circulated freely.
Then he lustily trolls As he onward strolls, A rollicking song for the saving of souls.
He was clever as well as skilled, and he turned the simple little melody into thrilling, rollicking music with trills and roulades until the original theme was almost lost sight of, only to crop up again with new intensity.
The rollicking dance had restored her gaiety, and relieved the seriousness of the situation.
She recognized a rambling and rollicking message she had sent to him more than a year before.
Lola was there to overlook putting them through their paces, but she left the details of straightening out the chattering, rollicking bridesmaids and groomsmen to Elise and Hazard.
A capital story, full of sensation and excitement, and a rollickingsea story of the good old-fashioned sort.
At the same moment, as if maliciously calculated, the great booming punt of Bannerman brought the Princeton stands, rollicking and gleeful, to their feet in a burst of triumph.
The two pagans passed without seeing him, gloriously, boyishly happy and defiant, and the rollicking banter recalled in bleak contrast all the stern outlines of the lives of seriousness he had felt for the first time.
The rollicking good humour that prevailed was most contagious, and I shall always treasure the memory of it which has now been made sacred through the death of so many whom I met there.
Some of those men that were joining in the rollickingragtime tune were dying men.
On Sundays, as we lay over at the taverns, these would be filled with a rollickingcrowd of fiddlers and dancers, quaintly dressed, the women bringing their children and babies.
The two of them, and Ned and Mammy, spent a rollicking hour in the pasture the freedom of which Dick had known so long, before the old horse was caught and brought back into bondage.
Will was a very lusty, rollicking boy and was as full of innocent mischief as a pomegranate is of seeds.
He closes his picture with a rollicking burst of humor which contrasts finely with the grief of the mother and her children.
Toward evening the two steam tugs that had accompanied us with a rollicking champagne-party of young New Yorkers on board who wished to bid farewell to one of our number in due and ancient form departed, and we were alone on the deep.
The lowing kine on a distant hill, The rollicking fall Of the near-by rill And the lazy drone of the ancient mill, Are the joys of a summer morning.
Surely not against the genial obliging rollicking Irish lad whose face I shave every other morning.
On the other hand, it has been necessary to try to treat "Pinafore" in Gilbert's rollicking fashion.
Their life is naught but folly, A rollicking life I ween!
There was in her a new softness, a new feeling of misery--as if one had wantonly killed a rollicking puppy before her eyes.
He had read romances of the great West in his youth and felt a vague regret that he had not lived in the rollicking days of '49.
For this gathering the "Flowers of Progress" also arrive, and after they have ranged their chairs round in Christy Minstrel fashion, the proceedings open with a rollicking song by the King.
It was one of those rollicking farces which, one would have thought, would have filled the house every night.
John Toms, a rollicking Cavalier of ancient Devonshire lineage, had lived and died at Perlycross, nearly two centuries agone.
