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But I gazed as dutifully as my two cats do when birds are frolicking in the tree outside the window.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

When Elsa and her younger sister, Anna, are frolicking around the palace as children, the elder princess' bizarre snow-making powers amount to little more than a spurt of confetti.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2018

Perhaps you’ve joined me this week in envious gawking at the Instagram and Twitter photos from Hawaii, where 22 Seahawks players are frolicking in the tropics.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2015

I do not like the ups and downs of a country life: to-day you are frolicking with a fine girl, and to-morrow you are moping by yourself.

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous

The eye is first attracted to the ceiling, painted in fresco in the Italian manner, where lightsome arabesques are frolicking.

From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de