capers

• Waiters passed plates of tiny briks, succulent warm and savory pastries filled with eggs or meat and perfumed with olives, capers, and cilantro. —  The African Quest
• The people who assisted me in my dubious capers were all honest, legitimate, respectable folk whom I duped or conned into lending me help. —  CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - FRANK ABAGNALE JR.
• His capers were a source of unceasing amusement to his soldier friends,—I cannot describe to you how great. —  Memories
• Modern identity theft is now about elaborate long-term capers that achieve massive payoffs, with the unpaid bills getting dumped in your lap. —  About.com Internet for Beginners
• In the "Flamborough Sword" dance, the men (with no Amazon assistance) raced through the figure and out again, eight of them, armed with bloodless wooden swords--a finely ordered riot Lady's Pleasure," a Morris-jig for two men, lays hold of you at the first bar, and again with a fresh grip and a tighter as the music slows up for the dancers to do their "capers"--all to the music of Mr. Cecil Sharp at the piano and Miss Avril at the fiddle The object of The English Folk Dance Society is to teach rather than to perform in public. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914

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