Sentence examples for rollick from inspiring English sources

The Company Sergeant Major started to rollick me for coming along the road when I was under fire…The Commanding Officer told him to get out of his sight.

There is nostalgia at play here too, allowing Ms. Ossip to romp and rollick.

There was a sumptuous reading of the bossa nova "Beija-Flor," featuring the bassist Scott Colley, and a rollick through the Sonny Rollins calypso "St.

After 250 pages of determined intellectual rollick, Mr. Glassie turns serious in his conclusion, depicting Kircher as a noble seeker stranded on the wrong side of the scientific revolution.

60 TEXTOS By Sarah Riggs 60 pages; Ugly Duckling; $14. "Texto" is French for text message, and "60 Textos" is a thoroughly postmodern romp and rollick through the text-ether.

The interactions of nine musicians are necessarily looser than the cloistered actions of a single godlike creator (sorry, Jacob), and yet the ensemble brought these themes vividly to life: "Optimism" was a fizzy rollick, and "Digression on the History of Jews and Black Music" brimmed with rhythmic brio.

We've since heard a textbook Waitsian single - "Bad As Me" – the kind of tipsy rollick that confirms Waits hasn't undergone any radical musical conversions in the years since 2006's three-disc Orphans compliation charted its span.

As Simon Garfield explains in On the Map, his rollick through the history of western map-making, the Vinland map indicated not only that there was "European knowledge of Norse sailings to North America some 50 years before Columbus", but also that, "according to an explanation on the map... the discovery itself had occurred between 985 and 1001".