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On summer days he never overflows with the rollicksomeness of bobolink and oriole, but takes his abundance in quiet contentment.

From Ways of Wood Folk by Copeland, Charles

And indeed he was; and I should say from the tumult, from the formlessness of it, the tunelessness, the rollicksomeness, that never was anybody more so.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von