You felt a racial intimacy with the whimsical and antic shapes which your brief personal consciousness denied in vain; and you rose among the slopes around Tivoli with a sense of home-coming from the desert of the Campagna.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
As the gentlefolk approached, the revel stopped, but the major, who was in an antic mood and disposed to be gracious, bade Friedel play on, and as Mrs. Cumberland refused his hand with a glance at her weeds, the major turned to the Count's buxom housekeeper, and besought her to waltz with him.
"Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories"
Louisa M. Alcott
Her laugh, at some clumsy antic of Leonidas or some word of mine, rang again and again through the solitude of our hiding place.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford