Lexicographical Neighbors of Frivoling
Literary usage of Frivoling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... and drawing the feather through them. NAF, the nave or hub of a wheel. See NATH.
N AFFIN, trifling, frivoling. " They were just naffin on. ..."
2. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"So it appears that he jwas.not-always reading Macaulay or studying French and
astronomy., iul sometimes went frivoling with his old chief, ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1906)
"The frivoling of the modern child is the result of modern civilization, and must
be accounted for in other ways than by the course of study. ..."
4. The Bookman (1899)
"... the most serious part being naturally that describing Egypt, since it is
difficult to imagine even a Chicago girl "frivoling" about the sphinx. However. ..."
5. The Immigrant Jew in America by National Liberal Immigration League, Edmund Janes James, Walter Scott Andrews, Oscar R. Flynn, J. R. Paulding, Charlotte Kimball Patton (1907)
"The music begins again and frivoling couples, under its influence, break from
the mass and dance enthusiastically over the cleared space. ..."
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