larking

My wife is "larking" -- I am sorry to use such a word, but what she is pleased to tell me of her doings leaves me no alternative -- in London, whither I go on Thursday to fetch her back -- in chains, if necessary.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

Skylark, so named from his propensity for 'larking' and practical joking, is not only a favourite at school on account of his sunny disposition, but a real influence for good because of the uniform

Adventures in Many Lands Various

Browning had written the passage which opens _The Princess_, descriptive of the "larking" of the villagers in the magnate's park, he would have spared us nothing; he would not have spared us the shrill uneducated voices and the unburied bottles of ginger beer.

Robert Browning 1905

Nearer they came and nearer, my heart beating fast as they strolled amongst the boats until they were actually "larking" round the one next to ours.

Gulliver of Mars 1905

They understood perfectly the uncertain temper of "larking" woodsmen.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

Nearer they came and nearer, my heart beating fast as they strolled amongst the boats until they were actually "larking" round the one next to ours.

Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

It was more likely that he disapproved of my "larking" with the American boys and giving them a glove to divide in bits.

The Heather-Moon 1889

Here in the sacred shade the old women were knitting, gossipping, yawning, shuffling about; here the children were romping and "larking"; here, in a manner, were the open parlour, the nursery, the kindergarten and the < i > conversazione of the poor.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

Ann was too big to go "larking" about with the girls, so she and Hanny, and one or two others, sat down on the soft, sunburned turf.

A Little Girl of Long Ago Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

Never having seen this before in the eyes of any man who looked at her, she referred it to some vague "larking" or jocularity, for which she was in no mood.

Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Bret Harte 1869