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Examples
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She kittened and frivoled through the Reign of Terror with an archness that was commendable, though somewhat misplaced, and she let loose a lay figure labeled _Marie Antoinette_ that was designed to frame her own accomplishments.
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Though, under the surface, life upon Blue Lake ranch was sufficiently tense, the remaining days of June frivoled by as bright and bonny as the little meadow-blues flirting with the field-flowers.
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912
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But the other men made them first, you see, and I've just frivoled and played.
Glory of Youth Temple Bailey 1912
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Whatever heart she had not frivoled away in wilfulness had been caught and won by Forsythe, the first grown man who had ever dared to make real love to her.
A Voice in the Wilderness Grace Livingston Hill 1906
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He had frivoled with half a dozen trained nurses in as many different hospitals, and had even had a sentimental round with a pretty young stewardess on the transport coming home.
Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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To think that I, Geoffrey Fox, who have frittered and frivoled, should have put on paper things which have burned into men's consciousness and have made them better.
Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906
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The women who were privileged to attend the now famous _salon_ wore their freshest and most becoming gowns, and most of the Senators would have been glad to have frivoled away the evening in compliments, so refreshing was the sight of an attractive face after a long and anxious day.
Senator North Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Where he had doubted, he was now convinced; where he had frivoled, he was in deep, intense earnest; the fact that there would be certain difficulties to overcome only seemed to strengthen the inward determination.
Flaming June George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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