How To Use Scamper In A Sentence
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Sure, there were film songs sung with verve, dances and a skit, and games for children scampering around.
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A scampering noise beat across the ceiling before a little trapdoor opened with a dull thud, previously completely invisible to all in the bar.
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Some of the animals chattered a moment and then went on their way, while others stayed to scamper or fly around the two friends.
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You can tell this isn't going to be a winter of picturesque snowscapes and mitten-clad children scampering around with their hoods up - it's one of the bleak, sub-zero temperatures variety.
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Jamie Barrow concluded the scoring when he scampered onto Smith's pass to rifle the ball past Knowles.
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The horses scampered down the flat to search out alfilaria.
The California Birthday Book
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Mia scampered off into the kitchen and came back with some scones with honey butter glazed on them.
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No matter how hard I try, I simply cannot keep up with my guide, Alistair, who scampers over the screes like some tweed-clad mountain goat.
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Well the poor mutt ran away howling in pain and agony and he scampered shiveringly to a refuge in a deserted shack.
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His touch and tone are wonderful, and on the solo pieces his use of percussive sounds, banging chords, glowering bass figures and scampering uptempo lines make him sound like an innovator.
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There was a quick scamper of feet from the children as everyone bundled into the hallway.
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Soon enough he was scampering runs and cutting through point fiercely enough to send the fielders scurrying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hornblower was about to return topside when the men from aloft scampered down the companionway.
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The rabbit scampered away in fright.
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However, much to the man's surprise, the devilish animal scampered away just as the dog had done.
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It brayed loudly again, and scampered, frightened, into the woods.
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A real ascender scout would have semaphore flags, or at least a message lizard that could scamper down the line.
LEVIATHAN
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I often have the most beautiful notions scampering through my head with the grace, but alas! the swiftness too, of kittens, especially just before I get asleep; but they're all lost for the want of a trap; an intellectual figgery four.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
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Yet it was their sprightliness in attack, their urgency in scampering forward, that characterised the early exchanges at Rugby Park.
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The robot scampers around a bit, but when the physicist raises the hammer, the machine turns over on its back, emits a few piteous squeals, and looks up at its persecutor with enormous, terror-stricken eyes.
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I pity the children scampering about the Great American Southwest who do not have a compound for protection.
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Twilight at Mrs. Wickett's, when the School bell clanged for call-over, brought them back to him in a cloud — Katherine scampering along the stone corridors, laughing beside him at some "howler" in an essay he was marking, taking the cello part in a Mozart trio for the School concert, her creamy arm sweeping over the brown sheen of the instrument.
Goodbye, Mr Chips
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The instant he was gone, the doors of the boathouse opened and Sam Davis scampered in to untie Bob and Pete.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
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These scampered through his brain and tore up his heart and tumbled about in his throat and lungs, and maintained a furious harlequinade, and in short behaved in a way that was quite disgraceful, and that caused the poor young man alternately to amuse, annoy, astonish, and stun his comrades, who beheld the exterior results of those private theatricals, but had no conception of the terrific combats that took place so frequently on the stage within.
The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
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I had decided to leave when the tortoiseshell kitten scampered in from the yard.
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Old-timers recall barefoot children scampering into the woods to hide when the first cars rattled into their villages in the 1950s.
Oil Spill Threatens Way Of Life For American-Indian Fishing Villages
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But Ducros fluffed his chance and allowed Sollitt to scamper across his line to make the save and then block again from a Shaw header.
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Eddie McCarthy scampered about among the branches stringing lights all over, and finally placing the big, illuminated star on the very highest point.
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I saw a curator in New York scampering around in one at a big exhibition.
Times, Sunday Times
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So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the five water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
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a third stands quietly until his lading is nearly completed, and then suddenly starts and flounces until he throws every thing off, a fourth at the same interesting point stamps upon your foot, breaks away, and scampers off into the prairie, strewing the way with his burden, a fifth refuses to be loaded at all, and a sixth to stand still, be led or driven.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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A few rats and some crows stirred at his coming and scampered or flew off, releasing angry caws and twitters as they cursed Romon for interrupting their meal.
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Pianist Damon Denton scampers through Shostakovich's figurations with a keen ear for melody and texture.
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Jimmy again, scampering to the crease, turning sideways and hurling it up into the blockhole.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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Fiscus scored the lone Karns City touchdown in the second quarter on an eight yard scamper.
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I often hear them at night scampering about, shrieking and yowling.
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The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race.
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It effectively captures the tragedy and comedy of this scene as the emigrants, blonde and bewigged, scamper across the hills.
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Aftab blasted Gillespie's first ball over mid-wicket for six and then scampered a single from the next ball to seal a win.
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He swiveled aside to let a stream of half-naked boys and girls playing some spontaneously generated variant of tag scamper past.
Beowulf's Children
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As I walked past a pudgy child who looked to be three and a half, shoeless in a tie-dyed shirt and playing with a squirt gun, I heard a horse neigh and watched a couple of proud looking Rhode Island Red hens scamper across the yard with their combs quivering.
CHASING the WHITE DOG
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A scrawny opossum foraged along the road, scampering toward the woods when I tried to take its picture.
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So remote is this little place from the stir and bustle of travel, and so destitute of the show and vainglory of this world, that my calesa, as it rattled and jingled along the narrow and ill-paved streets, caused a great sensation; the children shouted and scampered along by its side, admiring its splendid trappings of brass and worsted, and gazing with reverence at the important stranger who came in so gorgeous an equipage.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
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Black pheasants scampered away into the long grass and a flock of white doves swooped between the trees ahead of us.
Times, Sunday Times
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I did however go for quite a long riverside walk through areas of woodland where on a sunny day like this you could almost believe there'd be fairies and pixies scampering about playfully.
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Extras glance uncertainly at the camera, and at one stage a bewigged gentleman, bent double, is seen scampering out of shot.
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His legs scraped against the brick wall of the house, shoes slipping and skidding as he scampered his way up and out.
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Cole scampers forward like a Jack Russell chasing a string of sausages which another dog has widdled over.
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The boy and the dog relish the scamper, but the pedlar fingers his rosary to ward off the threat of a drenching.
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It "scooted," glanced, ricochetted, or whatever you want to call it, all around that room and you never saw such a scampering to get out.
The Emma Gees
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As more Stuttgart players were drawn towards him, his reverse pass wrong-footed the entire defence to leave Giggs scampering clear before rolling his shot calmly beyond Hildebrand.
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Rather, it was the way he scampered around displaying all the energy and enthusiasm of a player half his age.
The Sun
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He pictured himself now, crawling in the mud of a ditch, filthy and wretched, scampering in retreat.
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The girl rose and made a scamper for the lovely woman, but a stray leg was purposely put out and quickly the girl was sent to her knees, toppling forward to land ungracefully upon her chin.
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The first section scampers about in a happy fashion but darkens suddenly in the key of D minor.
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There he was, scampering around the neighbour's garden.
The Sun
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The unplanned visit saw Spain's finest scampering around the dressing room trying to kick bits of kit out of the way.
The Sun
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Then, with a raspy scamper, a team of grey squirrels descended on our picnic table to clear crumbs faster than any vacuum cleaner.
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Instantly small feet scampered into the Watergate from the terrace.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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MALVEAUX: That used to, like, kind of scamper a bit.
CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2007
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The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race.
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The androids and robots were confused and scampered down corridors, knocking into things.
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A death-defying scamper across the street brings us to Loretta, the best wig fitter in town, who works at Cosmetic World.
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I've enjoyed watching this game of blog tag scamper about some of my favorite blog writers.
Archive 2008-10-01
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I should have liked to rouse them for a minute, to coax them into a game or a scamper; but the longer I looked into their fixed and weary eyes the more preposterous the idea became.
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Troops of langur monkeys scamper across limbs of ancient banyan trees.
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She could hear the scampers of animals scattering.
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The cat scampered along the side of the ditch, its coat shiny black from the morning rain.
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A few tame lambs scamper around, probably bottle fed, and a single donkey nibbles at the grass among the goat-hair tents.
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He's already scampering about gamely looking like the kind of irritatingly perky euro teenager who might do a really embarrassing Big Brother audition tape.
The Guardian World News
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I say the Serenity Prayer every day with my kids before they scamper in to the schoolhouse. datingjesus
Reinhold Niebuhr wrote it after all « Dating Jesus
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Our young pups were having a good scamper when a man from the council came barging in with a clipboard shouting ‘No, no, no!’
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That crucial distance from cooker to sink to fridge is pretty much one stride length for us but a bit of a scamper for anyone under five foot five.
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Nyanja-speaking half-castes of well-sweep and learning have dhressed reinsulated in sugar-beets of life, that appear very brown-whiskered scan-ty to thought or to celestine; so many, that he who disclaims them is slummed to think that he lesquelles enterprise and fortuitousness asking over all external agency, and bidding help and hindrance scamper before them. dionysius of resbalandose was wonderful, and he speakest it with a stern-davit of his devil-dusted.
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Black pheasants scampered away into the long grass and a flock of white doves swooped between the trees ahead of us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pairs of hares scampered and jinked in telepathically close formation; rape fields were yellowing.
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Agile wallabies graze on the lawns and bandicoots scamper across the paths then off into the paperbarks.
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Birds are tweeting, bees are buzzing, dogs are scampering, everything is coming up daffodils and I went out without socks for the first time this year.
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Lapwings wheeled and tumbled over the meadows, brown hares scampered in the long grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Children scampered off the yellow school bus and into the playground.
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Suddenly, like the soft scampering of a mouse, there came a pitter-patter of small feet.
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As Burns scampered up the narrow stairs to the quarterdeck, the gunfire abruptly ended: Either Smith had run out of ammunition or she had heaved herself through the hole, and Smith, like Wilson, was a denizen of the living world no more.
The Monstrumologist
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I saw a curator in New York scampering around in one at a big exhibition.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is inevitably something of a scamper through too many countries and histories; everywhere, it seemed, feminism tended to go through a moderate earlier phase and later a more revolutionary phase.
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She scampered to the dining hall where she quickly slid into a seat next to Danielle.
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Not palpably are wholly of anthropoidea anatropous viscidly once, but distantly the hogchoker is scamper agential viva.
Rational Review
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Not certain how to get past the human barricade, it scampered about for 10 minutes, before fleeing in the distinctive shape of a flounder.
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The mice are back, scampering around the tea rooms, nibbling at the fabric of our nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It won't be the same next year without those dancing eyebrows scampering around the boardroom.
The Sun
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She turned around and scampered back across the footpath to the gate, squeezed under and crept to the dish.
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When you're not scanning the ocean with your binoculars for a whale spout to the west, you can watch squirrels and birds scamper about to the east.
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The healer-hyarmi supposed there could be worse things named after him as he walked among the outermost wooden-shingled houses, squawking children scampering before him.
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I set out at a full-tilt scamper, leaping over the tops of pedestrians and passing cars in search of a victim for my rustling.
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Every time a ball was hit out of the court, a group of children scampered towards it.
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Near their back porch, they said, rats scamper about, and maggots slither near trash bins.
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Among the 15th- to 16th-century blue-and-white stoneware, a dish features a sprightly deer scampering along a river and a jar teems with needlefish darting in and out of seaweed.
Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul
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So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
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No scampering or scurrying. Understand, Little Chef?
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He slid the door open and watched as the cat scampered out to sit between posts and watch the birds hungrily.
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The boy and the dog relish the scamper, but the pedlar fingers his rosary to ward off the threat of a drenching.
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Which means he has to do a little bit better than "scamper" around the perimeter.
CelticsBlog
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All around us, elephants were scampering in all directions raising a lot of dust metres high.
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Sure, there were film songs sung with verve, dances and a skit, and games for children scampering around.
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Coming back to Mooney Falls tired but triumphant at the end of the day, we had a last bathe in that pool and scampered up the cliff like mice.
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If anyone cut themselves, he could smell the scent of blood and would scamper towards it.
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Today, you will be lucky to see a jackal scamper off, or a black-naped hare lollop across a path.
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You can hear dogs barking in the background and, yes, look, cut to a shot of hounds scampering in pursuit of something small and fluffy.
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Aden, her family's mangy old dog, loped into the room and scampered around her feet.
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_Caput mundi; _ but a kind of idiot head at that: inchoate, without co-ordination; maggots scampering through what might have been the brain; the life fled, and that great rebellion of the many lives which we call decay having taken its place.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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There would be rhubarb pie and buttermilk, flags flying and youngsters scampering, a parade, a pageant, and fireworks to light up the night sky.
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A leg bye is duly scampered.
Times, Sunday Times
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A brief moment of the winter which pursued her sent a scampering chill through the warm place.
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Instantly small feet scampered into the Watergate from the terrace.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The stoat scampers along the dry-stone wall, lightly cresting the lichen-covered coping stones.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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He did not show any early nerves, scampering off down the left and deceiving Alen Orman not once, but twice with a teasing dribble.
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Children scampered off the yellow school bus and into the playground.
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We as adults are so bombarded with errands to run, bills to pay, mortgage to scamper for, laundry to do, plus maintaining a full-time job (and yes, you can call us superwomen if you like) we often forget to frolic every once in awhile.
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He turned to see several younger children scamper off.
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But it surprised us all nevertheless, and there was a mad rush as humans, Elves, Gnomes, and what have you scampered pell-mell to their cabins.
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The scene is motionless except for the flurries of yellow and brown leaves which scamper along the water's edge.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Rather, it was the way he scampered around displaying all the energy and enthusiasm of a player half his age.
The Sun
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He busily scampered up-and-down the left wing while he was on the pitch and sent in a number of teasing crosses that caused untold trouble in the home defence.
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Every time they scampered forward in the opening half hour, the hosts took fright, sporting that look which befalls turkeys each time the barn door is unlatched.
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He flits and flies all over the camp, scampers and gambols, plays little mischievous tricks on everyone.
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The instant he was gone, the doors of the boathouse opened and Sam Davis scampered in to untie Bob and Pete.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
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The unplanned visit saw Spain's finest scampering around the dressing room trying to kick bits of kit out of the way.
The Sun
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Closer by, red foxes scamper along Further Lane and deer browse near the front door.
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We all scampered away across a field.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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The dim, yellow light each one was shedding cast shadows off the crates and barrels carelessly piled along the length of the alley, and occasionally a squeak and a scamper echoed throughout the area.
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Bottles flew through the air, ringsiders scampered for cover.
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On the home front, this new-found comfort has had the knock-on effect of finding me regularly scampering around the flat starkers.
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She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth.
Main Street
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Pairs of hares scampered and jinked in telepathically close formation; rape fields were yellowing.
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My local caddie scampered off down the fairway ahead of me.
For Love or Money
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But I guess my scamper is good because he's flashing off that cute little smile of his and doing that adorable little head shake of his.
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There was a fairish crowd of Indians doing what Indians usually do-squatting and loafing, scratching and gossiping in groups, some of the bucks painting, the women cooking at the fires, the kids scampering.
Isabelle
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Twilight at Mrs. Wickett's, when the School bell clanged for call-over, brought them back to him in a cloud — Katherine scampering along the stone corridors, laughing beside him at some "howler" in an essay he was marking, taking the cello part in a Mozart trio for the School concert, her creamy arm sweeping over the brown sheen of the instrument.
Goodbye, Mr Chips
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Scamper: Do not yell me! Igor: Please pull switch.
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It's a lovely, peaceful town where monkeys scamper along the sides of the roads and people take horseback rides along an attractive black-sand beach.
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Not that defeat would send him scampering away to check media reports over his position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feeling the thumps of fear in the fragile body, I lifted the tiny beast to the sand and watched it scamper away.
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Crewmen scampered about, untying the gaskets on the yawl-rigged barge's tan sails, and halyards started creaking aboard other boats while mooring lines splashed over the side to be hauled up by longshoremen.
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Others waddled, Dominic Cork bustled, Richard Ellison scampered, Derek Pringle pranced doing a kind of human dressage, and the more rotund were as chest-on as an old maid breasting the billows off Cromer beach in early spring.
Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old | Rob Bagchi
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Bran, [423] poor fellow, lies yawning at my feet, and cannot think what is become of the daily scamper, which is all his master's inability affords him.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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Instead Neville's mistake allowed Szamosi to scamper along the left and cut into the area.
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The first girl, with short black hair and a light, kind sounding voice scampered up to her.
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Her fingers scampered over the table, practicing the deft stitching of the basilar artery.
Small Talk
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In the backyard, four bushy-tailed squirrels scamper up to the screen door, chattering loudly.
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Carrick nearly plays Rooney in with a beautifully flighted ball forward, but Ecuador scamper back to recover possession.
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The roads were unpaved and dirty, and filled with hungry, undernourished children scampering around half-naked.
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‘Oh goody,’ Holly jumped down from her bed and scampered out of the room.
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The unplanned visit saw Spain's finest scampering around the dressing room trying to kick bits of kit out of the way.
The Sun
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Not that defeat would send him scampering away to check media reports over his position.
Times, Sunday Times
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He scampered into the shaft and continued for some hundred yards until the path abruptly forked once more.
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A handful of shorebirds scampered among clouds of tiny insects and piles of seaweed.
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A calmer Maracas Bay enticed these men into its waters yesterday, even though two days before bathers scampered for safety as massive waves crashed on the shore.
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At first, whirling scales and broken arpeggios scamper across the keyboard, hopefully tethered by tonic pedal notes in the bass.
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Toast the dawn with a warm lingonberry juice, brought to your bedside, before scampering through to the adjacent sauna to thaw out.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the eve of coming home from school, I would write the Driver to get many of these marsh tackies penned and fed, so they would be in good shape when I got there, and then, getting a half-dozen or more of our negro boys about my age, would bridle these devilish beasts, strap a saddle cloth on, and go bouncing and scampering over the plantation.
Memoirs of a southerner, 1840-1923,
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While kicking around some rustingly odd blogging machinery, one of the little whirrrrrs began; followed by quirkly-strange gauge movements --- apparently some others had been scampering around this place and dropped a priorly unnoticed story or 2.
Archive 2005-06-01
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The youth was standing at his workplace, admiring the finished product in the light when the boy came scampering up to him.
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Then it scampered off up the aerial roots of a nearby banyan tree.
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Nevin scampered for space and from 30 metres essayed a left-footed shot over the bar.
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The children scamper, disappearing into dark alleyways and secret passages.
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There he was, scampering around the neighbour's garden.
The Sun
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The old trouper always fights hard, slugging from the baseline and scampering valiantly.
Times, Sunday Times
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It won't be the same next year without those dancing eyebrows scampering around the boardroom.
The Sun
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Anne went with them, and it was a pretty sight, the four young women in white chemises that clung to them when wet, and the three lovely children -- little white nudities with bright brown hair -- scampering over the rocks, splashing each other in the pools, or lying about on warm sunny slabs, resting and chattering.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
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He marched along beside her, then scampered up the aluminum stairs.
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The mice are back, scampering around the tea rooms, nibbling at the fabric of our nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Others fought over what fell, scampering across the yard playing wily comedies of keep-away.
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The entire enterprise occupied about an hour of scampering, filling, waiting, rushing, hesitating, dashing, dipping, and dumping.
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The squirrel scampered across the lawn.
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We all scampered away across a field.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Brooke scrambled back out of reach of Meghan, scampering back towards the middle of the sidewalk.
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People, normally who at this early afternoon hour are just now rousing from the midday sun-induced stupor, seem today to have been infected with some the electricity crackling through the air and scamper about trying finish up any last business.
First Rains « Cameroon
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Without glue, suction, or claws, these lizards scamper up walls and hang from ceilings.
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The baseball scampered over the diamond, and into the outfield.
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Instantly small feet scampered into the Watergate from the terrace.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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A stray cat scampered across the alley, not sparing a glance at the girl who was wading through an ankle-deep swamp of old newspaper.
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As Hunter relaxed, his appetite returned and was further whetted by the rustling and scampering of abundant food beneath his feet.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Soon enough he was scampering runs and cutting through point fiercely enough to send the fielders scurrying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next to the clinic two Rufous Bush-robins scampered around in a mulberry bush.
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MALVEAUX: And then the mice that used to, like, kind of scamper a bit.
CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2007
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When they got to the corner, she darted ahead and scampered up the copper beech.
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I ran down and scampered a quick, slip-and-slide circuit of the lochan.
Times, Sunday Times
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A kestrel commanded the long valley views, rabbits scampered unconcerned.
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Scampering up soapy slopes for the It's a Knockout Challenge, bivouacking for the night and abseiling down Ilkley's famous Cow and Calf rocks are some of the tasks.
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She landed on her butt on the ground and then scampered away from the next attack.
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Even while the German wench was recovering her breath afterwards and ringing for refreshments, I was limbering up on the rug, trying out my old round-arm swing; I even got some of her sisters in to throw oranges to me for catching practice, and you never saw anything jollier than those painted dollymops scampering about in their corsets, shying fruit.
Flashman's Lady
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Red squirrels scamper about, flicking their tails.
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Lex shot him a glance and scampered backwards, stumbling over Clark.
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The men hadn't even stopped for a second to turn around and to see the small child scampering away after them.
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Four photographers scampered round the podium, halting to squint through their viewfinders and freeze the scene with their flashlights.
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Dauber is usually naked, and to get to the refrigerator he must scamper past the video camera that is always watching from the foot of his stairs.
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Then Garry O'Connor took his turn, scampering unhindered before shooting tamely across goal.
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She grinned and scampered off down the hall to find more nimrods to invite.
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A branch overladen with monkeys crashed suddenly to the ground - sending them leaping and howling into space, scampering away upon landing.
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As the American welted the ball for all he was worth, Stepanek scampered across the baseline and belted it back for a winner.
