How To Use Frisk In A Sentence

  • Within two minutes he was back as frisky and free-moving as a foal.
  • Schoolchildren could be frisked for weapons against their will as teachers are recruited into the crackdown on youth knife culture.
  • It was a busy day for those oil stocks traded heavily by friskier private investors. Times, Sunday Times
  • If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom). 1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
  • Thin ye'll have till come up this way nixt spring time, whin they do be friskin 'around like young lambs," the woodsman told him. The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats
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  • Everyone was frisked before getting on the plane.
  • Spen was in particularly frisky mood and ended up slopping his drink down my jeans while Ross lined me up far too many vodkas on the arm of a chair.
  • But I listened very carefully and don't remember that he actually said that those officers could then stop and frisk the individuals under suspicion.
  • He takes me riding on a frisky Icelandic horse. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
  • A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery.
  • I tried for a few photographs to show my appreciation but there was a frisky breeze, too light to notice if it were not for the constant erratic movement of flowers and leaves.
  • It is important to frisk your beloved for alternative mobiles, bleepers and other James Bond-style communication devices before saddling up and riding off into the sunset.
  • We were in Blackpool for a silly day trip, a tacky, idiotic day out to the seaside to frisk on the sands in mid-July.
  • Sylvester, known as Rocky to friends in his Harlem neighborhood, was shot in the chest by the plainclothes cop, who was frisking the man's son.
  • Not happy news, but probably not a total surprise either, and it makes her kind of frisky once she gets over it. Matt's TV Week in Review: Premiere Week Edition
  • The 10th grader told Mr. Gober that he had been grabbed by a police officer, pushed against a wall, and frisked.
  • Two of the Prussians "frisked" us for our tobacco, cigarettes, knives and other valuables. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
  • Tim Stanley has noticed that Dr Paul is repeatedly showing signs of what I possibly not he would call crankiness in his answers. @timothy_stanley Paul's very frisky tonight. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Suddenly, all the pools in the zoo are full and overflowing and the animals who were quite sluggish in summer are now frisky.
  • It would be the easiest folly in the world to fall in love with her: there is such a sweet babylike roundness about her face and figure; the delicate dark rings of hair lie so charmingly about her ears and neck; her great dark eyes with their long eye-lashes touch one so strangely, as if an imprisoned frisky sprite looked out of them. Adam Bede
  • And I'll tell you how this same lady induced me to put on those foolish togs and hire the friskiest horse at Clayton's," further volunteered Shirley. Jane Allen, Junior
  • Others were frisky, some downright mischievous, but Cisco was solemnly content.
  • Remember that any application of frisket must be painted over before a batik-like effect is visible.
  • Yer could trust Mary anywhar; nuvr cotch 'er in dem playhouses ner friskin' in dem dances; she wan 'no street-walk'r trapsin' roun 'at night. John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher
  • Rex Neindorf brought in a few frisky fellows form the Alice Springs Reptile Centre.
  • There was; and, after being "frisked" for weapons, he went busily to work. First Lensman
  • Lin and Huang as well as five other people were asked to line up for a frisk.
  • So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Finnegans Wake
  • Attempting to capture the saucy spirit of the movies and genre on which the series was based, and even featuring several of the frisky familiar faces from the films, one would anticipate a risqué, ribald offering.
  • They both beat a burglary charge a year and a half ago, a judge ruled there wasn't probable cause to justify a frisk. WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES
  • At the X-ray machine the security officer was a middle-aged lady with a frisky look. Times, Sunday Times
  • River otters frisked in appreciation of winter's retreat.
  • The statement says Dunn told detectives that he told the women that he was going to "frisk" them, then fondled them for his own gratification rather than his safety. KVUE - Home
  • The beast in question was a trifle frisky in the sale ring and confined Aunty Pam behind the guard rail.
  • A pair of orioles alighted on the frisking branch of a weeping willow.
  • Officers frisked Barnes and made him stand with them near the police cars.
  • All of this fresh air and warm sunshine has had me feeling pretty frisky on my skates.
  • Attached to the upper end of the inner frame by hinges was a thin and narrow frame, called the "frisket," of the same length and width as the inner tympan frame. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • It's a beautiful horse but a bit too frisky for an inexperienced rider.
  • Passengers once glad to stand in line grow fretful as officials frisk grandmas' bags for tweezers.
  • I look down to a meadow in Central Park and see tiny muffled moppets frisking around like children in a Dutch painting.
  • On arrival there we were thoroughly "frisked", and all our personal belongings, including neckties, taken away. Experiences in a Japanese Internment Camp
  • There was a little foal frisking beside its mother.
  • We were frisked at the airport - can you believe it?
  • They both beat a burglary charge a year and a half ago, a judge ruled there wasn't probable cause to justify a frisk. WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES
  • You see the Guzzuh got to friskin 'round the turns on her hind feet. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
  • This lady was one of those modern inventions known as a frisky matron, and said and did all manner of dreadful things, which people winked at because -- she was Mrs Meddlechip, and eccentric. Madame Midas
  • The animals are being transferred from Longleat Safari Park to a zoo in France to give the frisky creatures more room to roam.
  • I felt frisky, as if I might break into a dance.
  • Unlike horses, these unicorns would not move until after they had been fed and groomed, and then they would take themselves out to the giant corrals to frisk among themselves.
  • They particularly loved the shadow-box assignment and working with the frisket.
  • He did not know enough about horses to put a snaffle-bit in one's mouth, and yet he would draw the friskiest, most mettlesome animal in the corral, upon whose back he was scarcely more at home than he would be upon a slack rope. Andersonville
  • Mortimer made half-accusations against the freshmen they had "frisked" earlier in the evening, and had been soundly trounced for their impudence. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery
  • And any evidence from those non-searches can or can not beused? can. because any time a cop is lawfully in a position to observe x, x is admissible. doesn’t mean a frisk is a searchwhit (Quote) The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights
  • Frisk about, pretty little mousekin," says grey Grimalkin, purring in the corner, and keeping watch with her green eyes. The Virginians
  • This lady was one of those modern inventions known as a frisky matron, and said and did all manner of dreadful things, which people winked at because — she was Mrs Meddlechip, and eccentric. Madame Midas
  • The last straw for me came when I was ushered into a plexiglas cell in full view of the terminal, given an intimate frisk, then told to unbutton the pants, and had the guard stick his hand right down to the genitals. The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited
  • I was frisked, my belt and Seiko taken from me, and, as an afterthought(Sentencedict), kicked in the ribs.
  • I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens. Walking
  • Any friend or reader of fp is certain welcomed, though frisked and interrogated at the door. Wear our hearts on our...T-Shirts.
  • We were all frisked at the airport.
  • When the weather's good and I'm feelin 'frisky, I ride my bike all over it. March 14th, 2005
  • But that Yankee celebration in Toronto looked friskier than normal. Yanks' Poker Table Has Wobbly Legs
  • His horse was feeling frisky, and he had to hold the reins tightly.
  • I later spotted a sign warning that frisky rhinos could damage door mirrors.
  • To make a simple aerator so you dont have to spend so much money take a few pieces of a dry red clay flowerpot dropped into your minnow bucket every so often will keep your bait alive and frisky on a long trip. Fishing tips
  • The morning fresh air makes me feel quite frisky.
  • Then with a doleful sigh, he gave Michael a thorough frisk for a weapon.
  • Where we like to get frisky depends on where we live. The Sun
  • Then those of my dear neighbors nearest my heart decided to prevent a lonely Christmas for me, so on December 21st came Mrs. Louderer, laden with an immense plum pudding and a big "wurst," and a little later came Mrs. O'Shaughnessy on her frisky pony, Chief, her scarlet sweater making a bright bit of color against our snow - wrapped horizon. Letters of a Woman Homesteader
  • Laura's glowing face was fairly radiant with beauty, and her figure was unconsciously displayed in such a variety of bewitching attitudes and dainty postures, that even a pair of frisky kittens, that had been chasing each other round the grassplot and up and down the stems of the cherry-trees, ceased their gambols and lay still, crouching in the grass, and watching her graceful motions, as if taking heed for future imitation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
  • A photojournalist is charged with taking his publisher’s daughter, in her early 20s, back to the United States before Mexico is quarantined again for the aliens’ frisky season. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • It might be a good idea to frisk people for calculators, rubber erasers, and other harmful things.
  • These little piggies were so delightful, and they were running around playing like frisky kittens.
  • The premiere of Woolf Phrase, on a bare stage, featured Richard Siegal speaking passages by Virginia Woolf and frisking like a puppy.
  • he gave the suspect a quick frisk
  • AN ASS climbed up roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling.
  • It's a beautiful horse but a bit too frisky for an inexperienced rider.
  • The torches those guys are planning to use to scare him away will do nothing but make him feel friskier. Kiss of a Demon King
  • His horse was feeling frisky, and he had to hold the reins tightly.
  • The saucy slap changes from clear to deep crimson as the wearer feels frisky. The Sun
  • To justify a patdown of the driver or a passenger during a traffic stop, however, just as in the case of a pedestrian reasonably suspected of criminal activity, the police must harbor reasonable suspicion that the person subjected to the frisk is armed and dangerous. Sui Generis--a New York law blog:
  • That sense goes back to Cockney rhyming slang, “to frisk a cly,” the allusion to which escapes me. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • One of the soldiers rushed forward and began frisking the older man while his comrades covered him.
  • The government itself brought in an amendment to ensure that a search of a person, whether a strip search or frisk, would be carried out by a person of the same sex.
  • Smells like a decoction of mild tropical fruits with some pears in there and a certain frisky note of red capsicum.
  • He liked to pet and romp with her, to carry her on his back and caper around like the friskiest of ponies. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir
  • If you feel really frisky you can stick a funky fin on the back. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Pineapple Crush' is a choice party-maker, gazing back to '91 with genes from Hip-House and nascent UK hardcore spliced with a 2010 subbass and frisky keys. Boomkat: Just arrived
  • A young Vixen, in this preludial scene played by a child, frisks in, startling a frog, who leaping to safety, lands on the forester's nose.
  • To the best of my knowledge, all liquid masking fluids or liquid friskets are made from liquid latex.
  • He held me tighter as his colleague proceeded to frisk me.
  • Families at the sanctuary revelled in the good weather, but the warmth made Oliver a little frisky.
  • Ria was exercising her horse in the paddock, because he was getting too frisky; at least that was her excuse.
  • Oh alright, I'll go and frisk, I suppose, if you insist.
  • And on the phone to me last week, with the appropriate noises of a frisky daughter in the background, Jack gave me a peach of a Father's Day line.
  • But it was a frisky fivesome, and everyone had his dig. Kevin Pauwels wins 2011 GVA Trofee-Lille
  • Policemen are frisking ticket holders at the gates as a security measure in the wake of threats to disrupt the first screenings of the film in the city.
  • The smallest, friskiest ones, I think, are young ladies, by the way they switched along behind the others and hung back kind of shy-like. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls
  • So the fifties really might be friskier. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's no question who is the friskiest musician. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of our players was kicked, and, as I was standing next to the man with the frisky boots, I felt honour-bound to have a swat at him.
  • As a final attention he "frisked" the mate and removed his keys and a heavy automatic pistol. Cappy Ricks Retires
  • When the type-bed and the frisket carrying the sheet of paper were in position under the platen, the latter was drawn downward to make the impression by means of a "toggle" joint which acted upon two strong rods, one on each side, and was then raised again by a counterbalance weight. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • The second time he came round to my place and was in a frisky mood. The Sun
  • I yell at the frisky types skipping along the deep gold sand.
  • But such detection is allowed and is arguably a much lesser intrusion of privacy than, say, a frisk might be.
  • The frisk is a quick search of an individual for weapons, evidence, or contraband. FM 7-98 Appendix C - Operations and Techniques
  • I am frisked thoroughly, quickly and professionally by a mountain of a man dressed in a jellaba.
  • May 7, 2010, 12: 51 pm whit says: whit: can. because any time a cop is lawfully in a position to observe x, x is admissible. doesn’t mean a frisk is a search and to be more clear, see plain view doctrine and open view doctrine. whit: can. because any time a cop is lawfully in a position to observe x, x is admissible. doesn’t mean a frisk is a search The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights
  • Standout scene: Andrew's mother (Mary Steenburgen) and frisky, 90-year-old "Gammy Annie" (Betty White) drag stick-in-the-mud Margaret to a bar for a makeshift bachelorette party. Non-explosive entertainment can be just as enjoyable
  • The former Partick Thistle co-manager is still as irrepressible as ever, still as frisky and enthusiastic as a puppy.
  • Two-thirds said summer was their friskiest time. The Sun
  • From crabs and snails to frisky sea lions, this is one of the most diverse and active habitats on the planet.
  • It's a beautiful horse but a bit too frisky for an inexperienced rider.
  • At the end of the cylinder and at equal distances along its circumference were hinged three frisket frames, each fitted with tapes having reel springs at one end. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • When the sheets of paper had been placed upon the tympan frame, the frisket was folded down upon it, and the two were then turned down over the form of type. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • And older persons, not yet altogether regenerate, are apt to have a weakness for a man who was willing to be knocked up at three in the morning by some young roysterers, and turn out with them for a "frisk" about the streets and taverns and down the river in a boat. Dr. Johnson and His Circle
  • United were in one of their frisky moods. Times, Sunday Times
  • I sign myself in, I am searched and I then join a line-up in a yard while a frisky dog sniffs me in case I am trying to smuggle in drugs.
  • Frisky Lucille is an affection 8-month female dwarf rabbit. Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives
  • As part of a countywide review, the court on Burneside Road, Kendal, now has an appointed security officer armed with a hand-held metal detector to frisk people entering the building.
  • The saucy slap changes from clear to deep crimson as the wearer feels frisky. The Sun
  • He has mastered a technique of successive washes using masking friskets and dry brush, making the fish come to life on paper.
  • For four years John Phelan allowed the beautiful freckled-faced colt to frisk and gambol to his hearts content in long meadow.
  • Barry: That's good. You can't have frisky horses in a riding school. Beginners can't handle them.
  • While the above examples have affected a few citizens, there is a much larger policy issue also at stake: the police have been authorized to stop and frisk any citizen whom they consider suspicious.
  • As Eva and her attendant, Magdalena, leave the church, the apprentices enter to arrange for the trial, among them David, the friskiest of them all, who is in love with Magdalena. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
  • Though their eyes flashed their rage, the German officers raised their hands while a petty officer "frisked" them one after the other. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers
  • If you're feelin 'frisky, consider St.L. over Seattle. Football query (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • The Irish Sea has never been balmy, but the sheltered bay in Port Erin caught the sun and meant many happy summers spent frisking in the sand.
  • You referred to the expression frisking a cly as Cockney rhyming slang. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Fu#k! last chance veer into wind-take aim make sure and steady as a rock. kaboom! pellets frisking wing of feathers flitting down in frisky wing. shake of tail and hardly glimmer at the pest down on the earth, flies that dabnaggin dead bird! Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • All my heart, all my affection, all my admiration, went out spontaneously to this frisky little forked black thing, this compact and compressed incarnation of energy and force and promptness and celerity and confidence, this smart, smily, engaging, shiney-eyed little devil, feruled on his upper end by a gleaming fire-coal of a fez with a red-hot tassel dangling from it. Following the Equator, Part 5
  • And oftentimes, we hear the term stop and frisk, and over the last few years, the terms have just become as if this is one action that occurs every time a police officer engages a citizen. News
  • All you need to do is put one on the next time you're getting frisky. The Sun
  • DiaryLand contact other diaries: h2ophobic myownjourney eowyn86 ieatsoap quincetree caker bindyree misspinkkate minstrelite mrbilly iamjackslie purelogic fightn4life swimmmer72 chapter3 friskyseal frogeye Seattle-rain Diary Entry
  • Recently you mocked both Melissa Kite's judgements and sources when you "frisked" her assessment of the upcoming Tory reshuffle. EXCLUSIVE: Tories Accuse LibDems of By Election Dirty Tricks
  • She says she can picture Charlie right now frisking about some green field of Heaven, wearing his loop of flowers.
  • Even Fritz appeared to be impressed with the belief that the shikaree was the most important personage in the party: for every time that the latter descended from the cliff the dog had paid his "devoirs" to him, frisking around, leaping up, and looking steadfastly in his face, as if congratulating him on being their deliverer! The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
  • The subtle pat-down before the actual snatch was called frisking the cly. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Then the friskier rich started buying in. Times, Sunday Times
  • You don't get to see them frisk like that around the Suffolk sheds.
  • Himself a rational pleasurist; as being much too wise to be ashamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterized, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
  • I am a girl with diverse character, sometimes frisky especially & sometimes shy extremely.
  • She frisked and frolicked around the house until, late that night, I ordered her upstairs. ON CATS
  • Somehow or other he heard that there was a place on Swift River called the gristmill, where there was almost all the wheat in the world -- at least that is what Frisky heard. The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
  • Anders Frisk blows for full time and Portugal hang in there by the skin of their teeth.
  • If a wider trade gap is driven by consumers and businesses feeling friskier, that is a good sign for the short term. When Economic Recovery Feeds Trade Gap
  • The bouncers accordingly started a five minute long frisk to ensure that they were not smuggling in any bottles of spirits.
  • You'd think that being whisked through the forest by a team of frisky huskies would be fast - to the spectator, at least, it looks more of a canter than a white-knuckle ride.
  • This CD manages to be fun, frisky, soulful and evocative, old-world and contemporary, all at the same time.
  • Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be shamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterised, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid. Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
  • I hope the colours of cat heaven are golden brown to let her blend in, that the mice are plump and frisky, the foxes slow and the birds just a little unattentive. Pusi
  • If it works like it's supposed to, the liquid frisket I bought today will be my new friend. BOOYAH.
  • Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes, paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance. Gorilla Radio blog
  • He said after the shooting, police and federal agents who came aboard the plane thoroughly frisked passengers and then ordered them off the plane, ‘all of us with our hands on our heads’.
  • I thought she said he 'frisked' her .. which would be a cause for complaint Should Tory Bloggers Be More Aggressive in Defending Themselves?
  • Early next morning found the Talbots eager like frisky children raring to get started in their adventure.
  • They will come and take you out to the back area, and they will do a bit of a frisk.
  • It's a beautiful horse but a bit too frisky for an inexperienced rider.
  • He reels off a list of brand names he spotted in his expert visual frisking of the store: Corbin, Cole Haan, Allen-Edmonds, Bass, Sperry Top-Sider. What Main Street Can Learn From the Mall
  • If you feel really frisky you can stick a funky fin on the back. Times, Sunday Times
  • A pair of orioles alighted on the frisking branch of a weeping willow.
  • Around the year 850 in southern Abyssinia, a young goatherd named Khaldi noticed that his goats were particularly frisky and frolicsome when he brought them home in the evening.
  • Why, them ducks to be sure, see how they come sailin 'up to us, as if they knowed all about the captin's order -- no jumpin' or friskin 'now, but all of a heap like. Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare
  • I have perseveringly frisked in the high places of iniquity, I have junketed with all evil gods, and the utmost they could pretend to offer any of their servitors was a spasm. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
  • Anyway, it was a case where the Runyon people had hogged the waterfront and was friskin 'us for tonnage charges on every steamer we loaded. The House of Torchy
  • There was a man called Mr. Montaro Mori who was a student of the Tokyo Imperial University, which later became Tokyo University, and he and I and some others used to frisk around together.
  • Geoffrey froze as the third policeman came over and roughly frisked him.
  • Well, since that was a Fourth Amendment case, and the reasonable suspicion standard has other Fourth Amendment applications, (such as when a Terry v. Ohio type stop and frisk is valid,) the discussion in Brignoni-Ponce would apply to the Fourth Amendment generally. The Volokh Conspiracy » What Will Kagan Say about AZ Immigration Law
  • Rapper T.I. got in some serious trouble with prison officials this weekend -- after guards caught the most famous inmate in Arkansas getting "frisky" with his wife during visiting hours ... T.I. Punished For Wife's 'Frisky' Prison Visit
  • Most recently, he was frisked by officers looking for car thieves.
  • Apparently, it's prom season for antique horrors from the deep: the living fossils were getting frisky. But not a real pandemic, that's cruel.
  • Around the year 850 in southern Abyssinia, a young goatherd named Khaldi noticed that his goats were particularly frisky and frolicsome when he brought them home in the evening.
  • If he knows that he could be frisked, he can place a non-metal explosive in a location that will not be disclosed by a frisk.
  • It's a beautiful horse but a bit too frisky for an inexperienced rider.
  • The police department has no way to know how many individuals have been frisked or whether those frisks are legal.
  • Six per cent of those quizzed said they feel friskier than usual, rising to eight per cent of men. The Sun
  • They know he's had a frisky past and I don't think people are concerned about that.
  • He's described as a frisky, healthy, normal, rambunctious puppy. CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2005
  • The lady's riding companion smiled good-naturedly and dismounted from his frisky dapple.
  • Junior football is the traditional sacrificial ground where balding corner-backs regularly obliterate frisky teenagers for no apparent reason.
  • Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham'd of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally remov'd from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characteriz'd, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid. Fanny Hill, Part X (second letter)
  • The police frisked everyone at the airport
  • The police officer should routinely ‘frisk search’ the arrestee.
  • You are now in your twenties, feeling a bit frisky and looking for love. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was by the same people who had frisked me the previous four times.
  • She's not right, which even you and me can agree on, and low as we'll be I'd like to know if she starts friskin 'around. The Shadow of the Torturer
  • On the next forward movement of the bed and the next one-third of a revolution of the cylinder, the impression was made, and on the next repetition of these movements, the sheet was taken off by hand, and the cylinder returned to its original position to have another sheet placed on the first frisket. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • The 31-year-old looked friskier than the 19-year-old yesterday, a fine portent. Times, Sunday Times
  • He frisked me, then twisted my arms, and placed handcuffs on me.
  • The puppy frisked its tail when it saw its master.
  • Therefore, it is not even clear that frisks would have done anything to prevent the tragic deaths in Russia.
  • Unfortunately, I am not so frisky now, but still every day a kind woman comes to help me keep clean and comfortable.
  • Next, I decided to try something new and have students block out the shapes that they had drawn with some frisket, which is masking film commonly used by airbrush artists.
  • He'll let nineteen go by without batting an eye, and mebbe the twentieth, just because he's feeling frisky, he'll cut up over like a range cayuse. Chapter XI
  • He had a frisky horse to manage, and the Captain congratulated himself for this occasion at least that he was a skilled whip. Melbourne House
  • It's not that I'm not proud of my junk, it's just that I'm already sick of being scrutinized, frisked, questioned, herded around, bullyragged and browbeaten at each leg of a flight.

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