Lexicographical Neighbors of Friskings
Literary usage of Friskings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude by John Jacob Thomas (1890)
"It is true that it might just be the difference between the friskings of white
lambs and the friskings of lambs that are not white. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"... such friskings of wit, and such flying in the face of the Si " letter of the
law for the sake of the spirit of pleasantness, ;is only Ц i " the Irishman ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent
state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings. ..."
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