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And if yer skint as a scamp's knees in Summer, remember there's always 5 and 6.

A Scruffian Christmas Hal Duncan 2009

And if yer skint as a scamp's knees in Summer, remember there's always 5 and 6.

Archive 2009-12-01 Hal Duncan 2009

The horror, the loathing, which the humorous young scamp's weakness inspires in his wife, a young woman of thoroughly feminine loftiness of character, is dramatic indeed, and partakes of the nature of that which so frequently is occasioned by the nervous organism of women, a 'scene.'

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

The Quaker gentleman, who, at the commencement of the young scamp's speech, as if frightened at the prospect of a colloquy he had provoked, had betrayed a desire to escape from the crowd, seemed, as the other proceeded, to have changed his mind, and listened to him with the utmost calmness and imperturbable good humor.

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

The knowledge of business and some honest, hard work would bring the scamp's tone up.

A Son of the Hills

We would, like enough, have been pestered with the scamp's presence and garrulity a good deal longer; but Montrose came up at that moment and took us aside with a friendly enough beckon of his head.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"At a literary scamp's -- a cleverish man called Burley."

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

I believe I'll spoil that red scamp's plans by frightening them away.

The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer Harrison Cady 1919

I believe I'll spoil that red scamp's plans by frightening them away.

Lightfoot the Deer 1919

Course, the reason for the Butler scamp's sudden switch was plain enough.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907