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Scamper   /skˈæmpər/   Listen
verb
Scamper  v. i.  (past & past part. scampered; pres. part. scampering)  To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. "The lady, however,... could not help scampering about the room after a mouse."



noun
Scamper  n.  A scampering; a hasty flight.






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"Scamper" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good specimen of the whole livelong Sunday, which presented only an alternation of similar scenes until sunset, when a universal unchaining of tongues and a general scamper proclaimed ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... my steed to listen for the sounds which his sensitive ear had detected. "They may be simply wild cattle, or riderless horses, taking a scamper," I ...
— Adventures in Australia • W.H.G. Kingston

... brute changed her humour; and, from refusing to budge off the spot, suddenly stretched her nose homeward, and dashed into the ford as fast as she could scamper. A new terror now invaded the monk's mind—the ford seemed unusually deep, the water eddied off in strong ripple from the counter of the mule, and began to rise upon her side. Philip lost his presence of mind,—which was at no time his most ready ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... own big water-trough; Drink, little lambkins, and then scamper off! This is the rack where in winter they feed; Hay makes a very ...
— Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten • Emilie Poulsson

... were short, isolated mountains, known in the vernacular as "buttes." On the ground was not the withered remnant of a blade of grass; but there were many fissures, and some of them were deep and wide. Of the things that crawl and scamper and fly there was no sign, not even a hole in the ground; for even reptiles must have food to eat, and there was nothing here to sustain man nor beast. The fleckless sky was a deep, hot blue; a blood-red sun toiled ...
— The Valiant Runaways • Gertrude Atherton


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