Which preposition to use with frisks

about Occurrences 31%

The bird-like tamias frisked about my feet everywhere among the pine-needles and seedy grass-tufts; cranes waded the shallows of the river-bends, the kingfisher rattled from perch to perch, and the blessed ouzel sang amid the spray of every cascade.

in Occurrences 6%

Yet in the midst of this hearty winter the sun shines warm at times, calling the Douglas squirrel to frisk in the snowy pines and seek out his hidden stores; and the weather is never so severe as to drive away the grouse and little nut-hatches and chickadees.

with Occurrences 4%

I'll have a frisk with you."

around Occurrences 4%

"You never asked me; you took it for granted that I was too old to frisk around the ballroom.

of Occurrences 3%

" Which he did in two frisks of his tail, without any danger from the trap at all, for that was on the ground, while Billie was above it in the tree.

on Occurrences 2%

In his fingers Hiawatha Felt the loose line jerk and tighten; As he drew it in, it tugged so That the birch canoe stood endwise, Like a birch log in the water, With the squirrel, Adjidaumo, Perched and frisking on the summit.

at Occurrences 2%

she would faint at the sound of an organ, and yet dance and frisk at the noise of a bagpipe.

into Occurrences 2%

Therefore he wrote to strangers on a purely business basisto amazing types lately emerged from the submerged, bulging with coal money, steel money, copper money, wheat money, stockyard moneytypes that galloped for Fifth Avenue to build town houses; that shook their long cars and frisked into the country and built "cottages."

through Occurrences 2%

My friend was, indeed, the most feminine creature in the world, and this is a flippant literary lady, who talks in raptures of the Greeks and Romans, calls Rousseau familiarly Jean Jaques, frisks through the whole circle of science at the Lyceum, and has an utter contempt both for personal neatness and domestic oeconomy.

to Occurrences 2%

Finally how he was frisked to the city jail in an automobile with a business man standing over him armed with a piece of gas pipe.

from Occurrences 2%

And the while these woodland playmates twain Piped and frisked from bough to bough again, 'Neath the morning skies, In the little childish heart below All the sweetness seemed to grow and grow, And shine out in happy overflow From her blue, bright eyes.

among Occurrences 1%

Only the hawks wheeled, and the wild pigeons crooned; the squirrels frisked among the branches; and now and then a great deer would leap from its couch and hasten into the coverts.

beside Occurrences 1%

At noon they lay about in little groups all over the prairie, the yellow calves clumsily frisking beside their mothers, while on the slight mounds the great bulls moaned and muttered and pawed the dust.

for Occurrences 1%

" It made me feel very welcome to have them both notice me, and I was so glad to be out of the train that I frisked for joy around their feet as we went to the wagon.

like Occurrences 1%

The poor little child is young; let her frisk like a lamb, and dance like a butterfly, and sing her hymns every day like a bright bird.

out Occurrences 1%

Two squirrels, happy in the mild weather, frisk out of the copse into the dank grass, till a curvet of one of the horses frightens them up into the firs again.

over Occurrences 1%

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?

beneath Occurrences 1%

Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burthen of threescore, So blessed a life these thoughtless realms display; Thus idly busy rolls their world away.

Which preposition to use with  frisks