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Definition of Friskful
1. a. Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
Definition of Friskful
1. Adjective. brisk; lively; frolicsome ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Friskful
1. lively [adj] - See also: lively
Lexicographical Neighbors of Friskful
Literary usage of Friskful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Milton by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1900)
"... Thomson follows with a description of the Spring meadows, where the sportive
lambs This way and that convolved, in friskful glee Their frolics play. ..."
2. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"Sportive lambs, This way and that convolved in friskful glee. [Bees] Convolved
and agonizing in the dust. Satan . . . writhed him to and fro convolved. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson (1854)
"Of various cadence; and his sportive Lambs, This way and that convolved, in
friskful glee, 335 Their frolics play, and now the sprightly Race Invites them ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"... and his sportive lambs, This way and that convolved in friskful glee, Their
frolics play. And now the sprightly race Invites them forth ; when swift, ..."
5. Theory and Practice of Teaching: Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School by David Perkins Page (1885)
"... others of slower speech, just as we tame a friskful colt by harnessing him
into a team of grave old horses. But aside from some such definite purpose, ..."
6. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... in friskful glee, Their frolics play. And now the sprightly race invites them
forth ; when swift, the signal 'given, They start away, and sweep the ..."
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