Sentence examples for mischievous child from inspiring English sources

In Alexandrian poetry he degenerated into a mischievous child.

"I'm touching your head!" said one, like a mischievous child.

"He is difficult," she says fondly, as if talking about a mischievous child.

"It's difficult for our cameraman, very difficult," he muttered in the manner of an embarrassed parent excusing a mischievous child.

So beguiling were his tricks that Zeus "laughed out loud to see his mischievous child".Pranks were a feature of ancient seasonal festivals.

(Later, he shows me the type of machine that did it with a chuckle, as if pointing out a mischievous child).

We frolicked in the water like mischievous children.

In Lagos, mischievous children study her as though considering what they might do to get a rise out of her.

But a warning to mischievous children everywhere: Mr. Green noted that shipments of coal were also up, by 6percentt, over last year.

The soldiers are deformed, as if they hadn't come out of the mold just right, or had been damaged by mischievous children.

Alexander McCall Smith has previously taken Precious Ramotswe back to her childhood and his latter-day run of mischievous children's tales has a brand new hero, Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer (Bloomsbury, £9.99 hardback).