scamp

• 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
• But the scamp was certainly a scamp, even though he might not be a murderer, or he would have revealed the secret. —  Mr. Scarborough's Family
• I detected one scamp, a fellow named Gaulthier, who had carried by, and secreted above the portage, no less than five large kegs of whisky and high wines on a small invoice, but a few days after my arrival. —  Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
• You're going to fight shy, and behave like a scamp--are you? —  Basil
• 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 and the Case of George Dedlow

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