scamp

• “Updates, 1/24: James Wolcott: Every year or so critics, audiences, and Academy voters decide to adopt a puppy, and this year the adorable scamp is Little Miss Sunshine, ludicrously nominated for Best Picture.”

  GreenCine Daily: Oscars. Nominations.

• “Be careful whom you call a scamp!" said Fred, while Rexford again edged off.”

  Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life

• “My poor sister had long been disillusioned before death released her from the titled scamp she had married, and she very wisely placed the emeralds in my custody to be held in trust for her daughter.”

  The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont

• “The orchestra, loud in wishing to know "who's dat knocking at de door?" and Master Tom, deep in the bill, with Mr. Rat, who is there described as a "scamp" -- an unknown term to Tom, for he asked its meaning; observing that Uncle Brick said Captain de Camp was a scamp.”

  Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season.

• “Newton, that pesky little scamp, is still showing that entropy creeps into every system but we’re trying out best to keep it at bay.”

  365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “I mean, what Barbara Bush said about junior being a “little scamp” really hasn’t changed much except that the little scamp is really a “little skunk” instead.”

  Think Progress » Washington Post on access to prewar intel:

• “A scamp is a person with a devil may care quality, a charming rogue who exudes positive, charged energy.”

  Seth Greenland: Scamps vs. Dorks: Why Do We Want to Have a Beer with the President?

• “Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, and that it is to her best interest to place all men upon the same footing before the law; mete out the same punishment to the white scamp that is inexorably meted out to the black scamp, for a scamp is a scamp any way you twist it; a social pest that should be put where he will be unable to harm any one.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black and White

• “I knew well that I was what the world calls a scamp, and I knew also that I had got little good out of the fact.”

  The Autobiography of a Quack

• “Upon the back of the scamp was a new blue flannel shirt, which he had stolen from the wagon, leaving his old one in exchange, and by the means of which we had traced him to his resting-place.”

  The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia

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