| 1. | Diana, who chanced to be in a frolicsome humour _she_ was not painfully controlled by his will for hers, in another way, was as strong, exclaimed-. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered lugubrious. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | A truerhearted lass never drew the breath of life, always with a laugh in her gipsylike eyes and a frolicsome word on her cherryripe red lips, a girl lovable in the extreme. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |