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Because then I'd be assured of a rollicking time.

One critic described it as "a more rollicking, rock and roll approach."

Also, a guide to the rollicking show known as March Madness.

The rollicking music attracts a little girl who sidles along the wall at the entrance.

Its narrator is no longer young and is wistful for a more rollicking time.

But next to the standard tuxedo-clad band was a rollicking reggae group.

The show used a rollicking theme song sung by a bunch of barfly.

The bleachers sent up the rollicking cry of expectancy.

She switched to a more rollicking tune, a country ballad, and the speed of her motions increased.

Why, in my rollicking youth, I'd have been all agog over such beauty."

The trees were jubilant with birds, and the paths with rollicking children.

The economy is on a rollicking roll, which has always helped dampen anti-immigrant fervor.

After long days of tedium, my heart leapt at the rollicking music and blazing light spilling out onto the street.

At night this is a rollicking bar scene with live jazz and blues in several clubs along First Avenue.

But Hearn was hardly an insider on that gifted and rollicking bunch.

His orders were to "organise entertainment, lay on laughter unlimited and rollicking relaxation".

But this rollicking style has only elevated the enthusiasm of the home crowd, which has not had postseason games to go to in 13 years.

It was a rollicking game, with shifting momentum and a heap of brilliant and boneheaded plays.

That could leave Carter as the only member of that talented, rollicking band ever to reach the Hall.

The rollicking music is overamplified enough to render many of the lyrics indecipherable, which may not be a bad thing.

His rollicking clothes brought an emotional lift to New York runways on Wednesday.

He led us all in a rollicking laugh, his a bit more rollicking than ours.

His rollicking frankness, his audacious unconventionality, are enough to account for the neglect.

A moment after that a number of voices started in on one of the oldest, most rollicking highland ballads of all.

It was like the rollicking of a Desert Father.

Instantly, another reeling and reeking woman took over where Nancy's rollicking had left off.

Its sorrow is rambunctious, its anguish rollicking.

Part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson he behaves as if he needs a darned good rollicking from the manager.

Rollicking Sea Shanties (1954-Audio Fidelity)

I realize that my way of eating Mexican is faintly Victorian: a throwback to the era when the pining for something earthy, robust and rollicking should be fulfilled far away from home.

This is the kind of stuff that allows a publisher to call a book "rollicking" and "ruthlessly candid," but in the case of "Howling at the Moon," it's largely false advertising.

Critical reception of the first episode was positive, with Nancy Banks-Smith of The Guardian praising Capaldi's performance and calling the drama "rollicking", "well written and acted" and marked by "a quite serious attempt to explain the underlying issues".