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  • Shiloh Walker has a new cover and excerpt up at Vamps & Scamps, and Jaci Burton has up the cover for Riding Wild.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Nalini Singh 2007

  • I admit they can be a wonderful promo venue, which is why I joined Vamps and Scamps But blogs are also good for just interacting with readers, plain and simple.

    Should Authors Reach Out and Touch a Reader? 2007

  • Villon's Straight Tip (W.E. Henley -- 1887) "When my Dimber Dell I Courted" (A.on -- 1725) "Wot Cher" (A. Chevalier -- 1892) "Ye Scamps, ye Pads, ye Divers" (Messink -- 1781) "Ya-Hip, my Hearties!"

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • Page 20 then we had to stop and wate a while but we whipt them like we aulways do And then we marched on but dident git but 3 miles that day And the 10 day we dident march but about a mile for we was expecting the Scamps to attack us but they did not

    The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, 1919

  • He sometimes referred to the federal soldiers as "the Scamps," which, in view of the heated controversies of the time, must certainly be regarded as a mild term of reproach.

    The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, 1919

  • They were also named Thing-mongers and sometimes Scamps, but this latter name was taken in ill part.

    Penguin Island 1909

  • They were also named Thingmongers and sometimes Scamps, but this latter name was taken in ill part.

    Penguin Island Anatole France 1884

  • "Scamps would claim money twice over when they could," said Mr. Carr; and Elster was a careless man, always losing his receipts.

    Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

  • She came to know the extended families of Coopers, Scamps and Smiths well, making little trips to take clothes and food to their tents, then doing sketches and watercolours of them.

    The Guardian World News David Altheer 2011

  • New Mablog Post: Miscreants, Scamps, Poltroons and Punks - A number of years ago I had the privilege of serving as a ...

    Blog and Mablog 2010

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