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Definition of Scamperers
1. scamperer [n] - See also: scamperer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scamperers
Literary usage of Scamperers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Publications of the Thoresby Society by Thoresby Society (1899)
"Accordingly I went the next morning and found my master looking out of a window
and ready to let me in, but some .scamperers passing by disturbed us so that ..."
2. Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington (1895)
"... and with their gay scrapes tied behind their saddles, they were as impressive
a cavalcade of desert-scamperers as it has been my fortune to see. ..."
3. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1853)
"Captain Bonne- ville's men hailed these wild scamperers as congenial spirits, or
rather, as the very game birds of their class. They entertained them with ..."
4. Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington (1895)
"... and with their gay scrapes tied behind their saddles, they were as impressive
a cavalcade of desert-scamperers as it has been my fortune to see. ..."
5. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... and her guerrillas, her marauders of the mountain, and scamperers of the plain,
may all be traced back to the belligerent era of the Moors. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"... to be sent, ея courier, to Vienna for a frolic of the old governor. His capturo
of those French scamperers has made him half a Frenchman already, ..."
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