He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor.

The prankishness has abruptly vanished from her face; she's almost deferential.

In prankishness he sought a refuge; he laughed, but she did not follow him.

She was only on the second floor, and captivity revived all her girlish prankishness.

They had laughed at his prankishness.

They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?

''Ere, tell us about yerself, sir.' The prankishness has abruptly vanished from her face; she's almost deferential.