And so these two scampsof the Green Forest made up and planned how they would live all winter on Farmer Brown's corn.
But his greatest fun was in matching his wits against those of Chatterer, for you know both have very sharp wits, as scamps are very apt to have.
In nine cases out of ten the children of drunken, smoking women will turn out to be worthless scamps and vagabonds, and a glance at the Gipsies will prove my statements.
He is certainly something of a scamp—and, nomen est omen, there is a tribe of Scamps among them—but he is not a bad scamp, and he is certainly a most amusing and eccentric one.
The fact is that few but decent English come here, I fancy our scamps go to the colonies, whereas Egypt is the sink for all the iniquity of the South of Europe.
His account is that the mass of the people are delighted to hear that the English are coming to conquer them, as they hope, and that everyone hates the King except two or three hundred scamps who form his bodyguard.
There are two kinds of men in this world--scamps and puddingheads!
In short: two kinds of men, scamps and puddingheads!
Either scampslike Tonet, or puddingheads, like the Rector.
The little scamps were safe until they should perform some new and unexpected act of impishness.
That's so; all abominable scamps take to some artistic pursuit as an excuse for loafing.
The King of Scamps was a great rogue, one of those finely polished gentlemen whom no one would suspect of being a villain.
At a sign from Red Cedar the Pirates stopped, waiting impatiently what was going to happen, and resolved, at any rate, with that brutal egotism characteristic of scamps of that sort, to remain unmoved spectators.
Among other scamps that should be hanged high and short," added the marshal of Champagne, "is one Maillart, who is profuse in violent denunciations of the court!
Sir Count," gravely answered the knight, "these scamps are of the English tribe of Ratamorphrydich!
They are all from Wrexham, a mixture of broken housekeepers and fellows too stupid to learn a trade; a set of scamps fit for nothing in the world but to swear bodily against honest men.
And unjustly abused,” said I; “it is a profession which abounds with honourable men, and in which I believe there are fewer scampsthan in any other.
One day, in the Rue de l'Universite, one of these scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No.
He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came across.
Could I see that little fellow prostrated, trembling in my arms, and think of those scamps inflicting the same on other helpless children--away from their homes!
Those scamps shall never have you in their clutches again.
Comrades," suddenly shouted one of the young scampsfrom the window, "La Esmeralda!
The little scamps are no less afraid of you than you are of them.
Under their power it was discovered that the scamps had dismounted near a small arroya or natural depression, and compelled their animals to lie down.
He found what he thought was a good chance to give the scamps the slip, and he done it as neatly as anything of the kind was ever done in this world.
They are all fine horsemen and rifle-shots, and a half dozen of the scamps can make things as lively on a dark night as a nest of hornets.
Yes—two worse scamps never went unhanged; I was afraid you were going forward to talk with them, and stood ready to stop you, if you made the start.
But if the scampswere not at Mere Cognette's every night, they always met during the day, enjoying together the legitimate pleasures of hunting, or the autumn vintages and the winter skating.
During the day these youngscamps were youthful saints; they all pretended to extreme quietness; and, in fact, they habitually slept late after the nights on which they had been playing their malicious pranks.
The commandant returned his sabre to its scabbard, and walked with a measured step straight up to one of the scamps who had been the originator of the tumult, and who appeared to insult him most of all.
To be laughed at by a king may be tolerable, but by the horse-boys and scamps of the army!
When I left him he was surrounded by a gang of as triflingscamps as himself bragging about his numerous escapes and--he's generous--my importance in the community we live in.
In that gang of soundly thrashed scamps there were two who were chums, as I could prove by sworn testimony.
I only wish the men that fought to free the black scamps had some part of the burden to bear.
The black scamps became so spoiled that whenever country people would come in town they would laugh at them, imitate their talk, call them po' white trash, and push them off the sidewalks.
One of the young scamps had taken his chair, and was delivering a burlesque lecture, near enough to the head-master's style to excite irreverent laughter.
I's afeard you won't t'ink yourself in need ob me, if some more ob dem scamps come pokin' round de doah up dere.
I shouldn't be surprised if he did; he's one of the worst scamps that ever lived.
The dusky scamps did their best to run them off, but it was evident they were afraid of the Texans, who made a dash for them, whereupon they disappeared.
Funniest job we have to do, Is to "save" suchscamps as you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scamps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
