caperers

They are foolish fellows, the caperers, and fly into the candle at night, if you leave the door open.

The Water Babies 2007

And very often Tom caught them just as they touched the water; and caught the alder-flies, and the caperers, and the cock-tailed duns and spinners, yellow, and brown, and claret, and gray, and gave them to his friends the trout.

The Water Babies 2007

They are foolish fellows, the caperers, and fly into the candle at night, if you leave the door open.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

And very often Tom caught them just as they touched the water; and caught the alder-flies, and the caperers, and the cock-tailed duns and spinners, yellow, and brown, and claret, and gray, and gave them to his friends the trout.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

In what do you find me less a man than any of the vapid caperers that fill your father's salon?

The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

The large Phryganeae, or true caperers, whose caddis-baits love still pools and stagnant ditches, are there rare; and the office of water-scavenger is fulfilled by the Rhyacophiles (torrent-lovers) and Hydropsyches, whose tiny pebble-houses are fixed to the stones to resist the violence of the summer floods.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

There palmers, caperers, and rough black flies, of the largest Thames and

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

All the largest surface-food -- beetles, bees, and palmers -- comes off the shore; and all the caperers and alders, after emerging from their pupa-cases, swim to the shore in order to change into the perfect insect in the open air.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

They are foolish fellows, the caperers, and fly into the candle at night, if you leave the door open.

The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847

And very often Tom caught them just as they touched the water; and caught the alder-flies, and the caperers, and the cock-tailed duns and spinners, yellow, and brown, and claret, and gray, and gave them to his friends the trout.

The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847