Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Frisking
Frisking light in frolic measures:
Now pursuing, now retreating,
Now in circling troops they meet;
To brisk notes in cadence beating,
Glance their many twinkling feet.
Gray.—Progress of Poesy, I. Stanza 3.