Lexicographical Neighbors of Prankful
Literary usage of Prankful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"For the rest of you, though still prankful, And not model boys by a long way,
have not, I 'm exceedingly thankful To say, yet compelled me to take this ..."
2. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1843)
"There is certainly a great change for the better since the days when the spirits
of prankful urchins were hardly kept in awe by the terror of the ..."
3. The Yellow Book (1895)
"... and keep up my Italian by studying the leaders of Mr. Sala ; my Pall Mall
Gazette ... I really can't think why, unless it be to enjoy the prankful ..."
4. The Lives of the Players by John Galt (1831)
"... and lively talents, was not distinguished for application to his studies ; on
the contrary, he was a prankful truant, and study was to him drudgery. ..."
5. The Literary Life and Miscellanies of John Galt by John Galt (1834)
"I WAS surely born a Radical, and owe my Tory predilections entirely to a prankful
elf, who, delighting in the ridiculous, has in high times and holidays, ..."
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