Well--if you'd really seen us scampering you'd know that I'm generally running away from young Rowcliffe and that young Rowcliffe is generally running after me.
What's this I hear," he said, "of you and young Rowcliffe scampering about all over the country?
In the room upstairs she heard the cries of Rowcliffe's children, bumping and the scampering of feet.
Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish, and sometimes a hurried noisy splashing as a brown shark sends all the other fish scampering for their lives.
Then she caught sight of a cat trying to get at a dish of prawns on the kitchen table, and with a dexterous gesture and a lively volley of abuse flung a book at its scampering tail.
As we did so a loud shout saluted our ears, followed by the whistling of arrows; and, turning round, we saw fifty dark forms scamperingafter us.
I could still see the buffaloscampering over the prairie, moving off to the southward, and I concluded that they would be miles away before the end of the day.
When the cows began to run they were joined by the bulls, and the whole set off together, scampering along at a tremendous rate.
David Winter, and were scampering like a herd of wild deer across the fields towards the Academy boarding-house, each determined to be first in announcing the good news to Joe Chester.
A few scattered dogs were seen scampering in, and, by their short and sharp yelps, giving a general alarm to the whole community.
All the trees around us were filled with numerous republics of squirrels, scampering and jumping from branch to branch, and, forgetful of everything else, we would sometimes watch their sport for hours together.
All the trees around us were filled with numerous republics of squirrels, scampering and jumping from branch to branch, and, forgetful of every thing else, we would sometimes watch their sport for hours together.
At this moment he heard somewhere in the dark near him the sound of scampering feet.
When grown-up hearts throb, it goes scampering Behind the wall, nor dares peer out at all!
But she lost her way, and wandered on and on through a dense forest, where nothing stirred but scampering hares and startled squirrels.
The jangle of the telephone sent her scampering downstairs to answer.
She walked along breathing deeply of the cold, crisp air, Toto scampering ahead of her or lingering behind to dig out a half buried root and shake it vigorously in his firm white teeth.
Orderlies are scampering over every part of the field.
Thus it was that Igraine, watching from under the woods, saw the sheep scampering suddenly in the meadows as though disturbed by something as yet invisible to her where she stood.
They were streaming away in flight over the ridge, scampering for scrub and thicket, no lust in them save the lust of life.
Rabbits were scampering and feeding along the edge of the forest; a snake slid by in the grass like a streak of silver; far down the glade a herd of fallow deer browsed as though caring nothing for the huddled scrap of humanity by the well.
Once you getscampering about up there, you forget the time.
There were shouts of people outside, too, and the squeaking and scampering of rats through the walls.
Then, with a gentle pressure from behind, she pushed me through the curtains into the familiar study and I heard her feet scampering up the soft carpet on the broad, black-walnut stairs.
Its short career sent every one interested scampering to take in the canvas awnings, and left a breeze which when the captain arrived in a launch, carrying some newspapers, blew them round him like a garment.
Here was no showing off now; no scampering out of sight with Pansy, to perplex and tire her companion; no saucy remarks on LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI.
She then ran off from him through the pelting rain like a hare; or more like a pheasant when, scampering away with a lowered tail, it has a mind to fly, but does not.
It generally sleeps through the day, and morning and evening jumps about in search of food, scamperinghere and there wherever it can find a sweet morsel to nibble.
These were very happy days for dogs, for they did not mind the cold, it was only an excuse for wild scampering and racing, and they were very grateful for their friend's return.
However, the lark seemed to have whetted Love's appetite: and perceiving creatures of apparently the same kind rise now and then from the ground, he took to scampering about in hopes of some second piece of good luck.
She wheeled her pony and sent it scampering onward toward the ranchhouse.
A returning empty hearse scampering home the wrong way had been the temporary obstruction.
What do you think we found when we all raced back--you know I had hold of the Little White Rabbit’s paw, and Mister Fox was scampering after?
And when everybody in the big house was sound asleep, and nothing was stirring but the mice scampering up and down in the walls, all the creatures in the cave were wide awake, and talking all together.
He spoke to a dog that came scampering to meet him; the light shot upward, came toward him; and he recognized the old woman, bareheaded, with the rain pattering on her gray hair.
With herscampering son, she crossed the field, going toward the lake, the morning after the expected visit from Lewson.
We also met with wild turkeys, grouse, and partridges in large numbers; and we frequently caught sight of deer scampering over the hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scampering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
