scamps

• I know we are Some one at school said she 'was always talking about clever people; Johnson, Sheridan, ;c.;' She said, 'Now you don't know the meaning of CLEVER, Sheridan might be clever; yes, Sheridan was clever,--scamps often are; but Johnson hadn't a spark of cleverality in him.' —  The Life of Charlotte Bronte Vol. 1
• Oh, scamps--oh, pitiful scamps! —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• "But there's no good in those young scamps--no good at all. —  Janice Day at Poketown
• As I would not mix with the scamps, they called me arrogant. —  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• "We've got to take the trail after these scamps, and get back them pictures. —  The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys

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