146 examples of rollicking in sentences

Then he lustily trolls As he onward strolls, A rollicking song for the saving of souls.

Fernando asked of a rollicking, fun-loving young Irishman about twenty-two or three years of age, who stood near.

" Lord Kildee was none other than the rollicking Irish student Terrence Malone.

Ship's rules, stringent as they were on the war frigate, and officers severe as were those of the Macedonian could not wholly curb the rollicking spirit of Terrence.

It would have needed a far more plastered man to have been rollicking at such a gathering.

She was then roughly told to get off the table, and take her stand near it, at a place pointed out by her purchaser, who was a rollicking-looking, big-whiskered fellow, with an immense Leghorn hat, the brim of which was lined with black, and having a broad black ribbon round the crown.

He perfectly saw the humour of the situation, but it was not the kind of humour that induced rollicking laughter.

When it was known that the genial, rollicking, open-hearted Henry Ware was to marry her, everybody shuddered.

Once he could poke his nose through the blue curtain and see what was on the other side, the satisfaction of his eternal curiosity might have made him a rollicking comedian.

The spirit is admirably reproduced in Kirby Smith's rollicking translation: [Footnote 3: See Kirby Flower Smith, Marital, the Epigrammatist and, Other Essays, Johns Hopkins Press, 1920, p. 170.

The pianist struck up "Let's Murder Care," a rollicking trifle from a Broadway hit.

they all shouted and then one, Tee Tee Tubbytee, a great speaker, said: "We watched you moving in, and decided to have a nice, fine, lovely party for you, so I called all the neighbors together and here we are!" Some of the tiny creatures had brought their tiny violins and some their elfin flutes, and as all were in a merry mood they played rollicking airs such as "The Wind Tinkles the Fairy Bells" and "Mother Hulda Picks Her Geese.

Yes, I remember now, at this distance of time, how often our employer used to give us treats at his house, and what pleasant jinks we had in playing and rollicking about the fields and grounds surrounding his residence.

He is drawn for us as a bold, reckless fellow, with a rollicking sense of humor, which, in truth, sits but awkwardly upon the intense devotion to the Cross and its demands with which Moses or some later redactor has seen fit to burden this purely pagan hero.

With a rollicking gallop and a bogey ahead, that did not trouble me.

It is not unreasonable even in that later generation which can still recall the frank but high-bred gaiety of the great Lord Derby, the rollicking good-humour and animal spirits of Bishop Wilberforce, the saturnine epigrams of Lord Beaconsfield, the versatility and choice diction of Lord Houghton, the many-sided yet concentrated malice which supplied the stock in trade of Abraham Hayward.

They can sing nowadays any rollicking, drinking songs; but they will not sing them when they come to die; they are not exactly the songs with which to cross Jordan's billows.

R61282-61287, 21Apr50, Dorothy Faust (W) HIS UNCLE'S NIECE, a rollicking farce in three acts, by Raymond W. Sargent.

MCCULLEY, JOHNSTON. Rollicking rogue.

" Somewhat crestfallen, but by no means browbeaten, Tim insisted that Melinda should give them a jig; and, so, crimsoning with shame and confusion, Melinda took the vacant stool and played her brother a tunea rollicking, galloping tune, which everybody knew, and which set the feet to keeping time, and finally brought Tim and Andy to the floor for a dance.

The whole song for sheer rollicking hypocrisy is without parallel in the language.

The rollicking song of the male, an exhibition of his vocal powers worthy of a virtuoso, is accompanied by the most comical gymnasticsbowing, scraping, and side-stepping like a dancing-master; all of which, I am sure, is highly appreciated by the demure little lady.

The meadow larks called from the hillside their quaint "Spring o' the year," the song sparrows sang their tinkling melody from the live oaks, catbirds mewed from the thicket, and occasionally a linnet sang its rollicking solo as it performed queer acrobatic feats while on the wing.

That our more rollicking boys had their counterparts then, we may know from its rousing drinking-song, which the fellows rang out at the opening of the second act, way back there in 1551.

Here sat a party of officers, bronzed and mustachioed; yonder a group of laughing girls; a pair of provincials; a family party, children, governess and all; a stout capitalist, solitary and self content; a quatuor of rollicking commis-voyageurs; an English couple, perplexed and curious.

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