caperer

Verman, the tattooed wild boy, speaking only in his native foreign languages, Verman the gay, Verman the caperer, capered no more; he chuckled no more, he beckoned no more, nor tapped his chest, nor wreathed his idolatrous face in smiles.

Penrod 1914

Verman, the tattooed wild boy, speaking only in his native foreign languages, Verman the gay, Verman the caperer, capered no more; he chuckled no more, he beckoned no more, nor tapped his chest, nor wreathed his idolatrous face in smiles.

Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

You have heard of that Dance of Death, which was one of the nervous diseases of the fifteenth century -- a malady which, after beginning with one lively caperer, would infect a whole townspeople, and send an entire population curvetting and prancing, until death stopped them.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

It kills well when fish are gorged with their morning meal of green drakes; and after the green drake is off, it is almost the only fly at which large trout care to look; a fact not to be wondered at when one considers that nearly two hundred species of English Phryganidae have been already described, and that at least half of them are of the fawn-tint of the caperer.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

Put on a dropper of some kind, say a caperer, as a second chance.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

Tom was washed out of the inside of it, and swam away, as a caddis does when its case of stones and silk is bored through, and away it goes on its back, paddling to the shore, there to split its skin, and fly away as a caperer, on four fawn-coloured wings, with long legs and horns.

The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847

But, besides that I knew for certain he had no money, I knew that this would involve a species of forethought not to be made compatible with the frivolity of a caperer, inoculating other people with capering, for his bread.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

How the devil should I, who am no dancer, execute what is too difficult for so perfect a caperer as thou art – Sir Knight? '

The Old Manor House 1793

Series five allows Andre Royo to give us a new Bubs, almost unrecognisable from the loveable, madcap caperer and shambling, drug-ravaged fiend we got to know over the previous seasons.

Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Paul Owen 2010

Series five allows Andre Royo to give us a new Bubs, almost unrecognisable from the loveable, madcap caperer and shambling, drug-ravaged fiend we got to know over the previous seasons.

Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Paul Owen 2010