The last-maker made a last for her, and over this Mary sewed the calico vamps tight.
Peggy and Anne platted the packthread, and basted the vamps and linings together ready for her.
The two men crouching by the cellar window heard the rush of feet, the engine banging and bumping across the sidewalk, its brass bell clanking crazily, the happy vamps shouting hoarse, incoherent orders.
In imitation of the real firemen of the great cities, the vamps of Fairport had cut a circular hole in the floor of their clubroom, and from the engine room below had reared a sliding pole of shining brass.
I couldn't see how she could have, but then vamps aren't in my line.
Then with the old hand equipment of the Woodbridge vamps in the van the whole aggregation hurled itself down the street toward the village.
In the meantime a score of vamps had been summoned by Chief Blaney to rescue the aged bookkeeper.
But all that the willing vamps could do seemed to no avail.
Hardly had Mr. Peg got the soles and the upper leathers and the vamps to his mind, and sat down on his chair to begin work, when a little girl came in.
Illustration: “Hardly had Mr. Peg got the soles and the upper leathers and the vamps to his mind, and sat down on his chair to begin work, when a little girl came in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vamps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
