Bobby dropped over the wall and scampered about, taking a merry part in the play.
But, as Auld Jock did not repeat the order, he ignored it and scampered busily about the room, leaving little trails of wet behind him.
He scampered down to the circling street of tombs at once, and not until the last prowler had been dispatched, or frightened into his burrow, did he return for a brief nap on Auld Jock's grave.
He pulled it so far under his thatch that no one could have guessed that he had a collar on at all, when he suddenly righted himself and scampered away to the gate.
He used them when Bobby followed him at the plow-tail or scampered over the heather with him behind the flocks.
He scampered up at once and dashed around the kirk, all excitement, for he had had many adventures with the Heriot boys at skating and hockey on Duddingston Lock in the winter, and tramps over the country and out to Leith harbor in the spring.
Bobby scampered up, too, and with the bairns in holiday duddies crowding about her, and the wee dog lolling at her feet, the Grand Leddy talked fairy stories.
He scampered across the sand, then he took a big leap and plunged right in among the waves.
The rest of them in their fright scampered away to their holes.
When the company approached the place where lay the victims of that remarkable shot, behold, they arose and scampered away as blithely as if naught had happened to them.
About him, boys scamperedhome in the fast gathering dusk.
He scampered up to Bill's house, where the two boys retired to the chilly seclusion of the shack and compared notes.
So he left the presents in her charge with instructions to give them to his lady on the very moment of her arrival, and scampered down the carpeted stairway again.
He scampered along the petrified lawns on the paper route until the last news sheet was delivered, then blew lustily on his black mittens to warm his numbed fingers as he started for home.
All about the brick-paved school yard, on the walk, and in the street gutters, were scattered oblongs of blue paper as he scampered from the deserted building at noon.
It was excellent advice, and the boys scampered over the tracks for home, to return singly and in pairs with their baseball paraphernalia.
They scamperedacross the expanse of cinders and rails, broken here and there by a struggling bit of plant life, and scrambled out on the untidy field.
He shot the quarrel-quelling stream in their direction, and the pair scampered away to safety.
He scampered upstairs and pitched the book which had lain under the bed since a certain clandestine night-reading session into the case.
Ordinarily, he would have scampered off to play with Bill and Perry Alford or Sid on the way to school, but not this time.
And as he scampered homeward, He thought with gleeful mind Of how he'd turned the joke on them, The girls he'd left behind.
And then they scampered out together into the hall, and kicked each other in the exuberance of their spirits, but without ill-will.
Up, up the hill they trudged, stepping over blow-downs, following their footing carefully, and watching with interest the little animals that scampered out of their way.
Out from the woods came two baby deer, a wise, gentle old cow; from the cabin came a mother cat and three kittens and a big black dog; and from the treesscampered down a half a dozen squirrels.
And they scampered for the village, the guide driving them before him, and all the lights waving to and fro like so many crazy fireflies.
And scampered off like mouse-ily Away, way from the house-ily.
They picked themselves up from the ground, ound, ound, And scamperedaway like fun, O!
And then they scampered in all directions, for Toto had awakened from his sleep, and seeing all these mice around him he gave one bark of delight and jumped right into the middle of the group.
And she scampered out of sight, with all the mice hurrying after her.
Then the mice were unharnessed from the truck and scamperedaway through the grass to their homes.
The little animals and all the people scampered out of their way, fearing the strangers would break them, and after an hour or so the travellers reached the other side of the country and came to another china wall.
A few of the meaner dogs scampered off a few paces at this, sniffing and cocking their ears.
Away they scampered headlong, higgledy-piggledy, toppling one over another in their haste to be gone, squealing with disgust and horror; and the travellers at last were left in peace.
The thirteen mules got away in a body, after a couple of false starts, and scampered off with prodigious spirit.
Dutchy plunged in, but the boys, instead of beginning to count, followed the lead of one of their number and scampered to a range of blackberry bushes close by and hid behind it.
They looked carefully at the picture before them and Ethel Blue scampered back to refresh her memory on the "Horse Fair.
I've seen the chickens run like anything from Christopher, and probably they ran between the baby's legs and upset her and then scamperedall over her.
We crossed the burnt prairie, our horses' hoofs stirring up the ashes as we scampered along.
In the course of the week he scampered over every part of the island; and gave a magnificent entertainment on board the Kraken, to the bishop and the principal islanders, in honour of the Consul's daughter.
And awayscampered Coates, without once venturing to look behind him.
And away the two worthies scampered down the hill-side.
Just as they turned the corner, Pillichody again noticed the figure at the further end of the alley, and, but for his fears of the knight, would have instantly scampered off.
The masquers fled in dismay, and scamperedalong the aisles scarcely knowing whither they were going.
Leigh scampered on in front, Mary coming after him rather faster than she meant.
Leigh and Artie scampered off, and their father was following them, when a sudden sound made him stop short.
Wili was all agog at the idea, and they both scampered down-stairs.
He scampered about crying out to everyone, "Guess!
Off scamperedthe boy till he came to the bank Of a very deep pool; Oh, wasn't it cruel!
Dody didn't seem to like it much, for she jumped out of Luly's arms with a squeal and a flourish of her long tail, and scampered off faster than ever each time.
They scampered off so quietly that they barely made a sound even when they brushed against the twigs; they vanished as though they had not been there.
The instructress to whom the sisters were listening ended her discourse and suddenly scampered off somewhere.
She therefore ran out, and scampered up and down the stairs and passages in search of some one to whom she could apply.
They sprang from their seats and scampered to Frank's bedroom, where they drew the curtain, from behind which they could hear everything that might go on in the room.
Then the men with the chain straightened up, and ran back to the sidelines again while Queen's prepared for a scrimmage, and the Warwick defence backfield scampered backwards as hard as they could go.
But the squirrel was not to be caught, and he chirped merrily as he scampered up a beech tree.
Sometimes troops of squirrels chattered and scampered around them.
Some in the centre were on a steady run; others at the side scampered irregularly to the right or left; while a few young and lanky fellows leapt madly over the backs of others in order to get to the front.
The turnpike-man knew it by this time; and off scampered Toole, and the major followed close at his heels, at double-quick.
When we returned home, we took off the saddle and bridle at the door, and gave Neddy a pat; away he scampered through the open gateway into the field, flinging up his heels with pleasure.
At last, Nurse suggested that it would be best to return home, and ask Papa what we could do; and being at our wit's end, we took her advice and scampered back to the other fort.
Bluebeard scampered a short way down the lane and then came back to us, whisking his tail, as if to say, "You might as well have come my way at once, without causing all this fuss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scampered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
