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Definition of Rollicks
1. rollick [v] - See also: rollick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rollicks
Literary usage of Rollicks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1876)
"Presently two of the Miss rollicks good- naturedly go to the piano and warble
... She gets up and goes over to the Miss rollicks, who have just ended their ..."
2. St. Nicholasby Mary Mapes Dodge by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
"The Third Bubble Book is a "Singing Game" book, and rollicks with songs from the
old favorites, Miss Jennia Jones, The Farmer in the Dell, and Lazy Mary. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"Horse-whippings, duels, abductions, hen conviviality, high-handed rollicks of
all kinds—Meredit drama, whatever the scene or the period, was ever charg with ..."
4. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1912)
"He could not have done that without reading the Fathers; and he could not have
read them without their influencing his style. It rollicks down ..."
5. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"The negro in comic or sentimental aspects rollicks or sniffles through countless
pages; the negro in his tragic aspects has been portrayed rarely, ..."
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