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Mother Hoey says that I do not speak like an American -- that I have not so many 'caperin's' in my language, whatever they may be; and so we have long delightful chats together when I go in for a taste of

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Millyuns ob Cheezpeeps pransin an caperin nekkid,to get noms!

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"Sometimes I've wished she was, for me heart's been in me mouth often and often when I see her go caperin 'down the track on some mad-'eaded pony."

Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

Lord knows I've no love for Elijah an 'yet I'm caperin' upstairs an 'downstairs when he ain't in a hurry an' tearin 'my legs off scamperin' when he is, until I declare I feel mad at myself -- I certainly do.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

"It won't hurt her a bit to drive as far as my house after she's been caperin 'all over the sky!" she exclaimed, seizing Geraldine's hands.

In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Clara Louise Burnham 1890

He's turned in the gate an 'he's coming a-caperin',

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

But Josiah interrupted me, and says he, "And them two fools a caperin 'after it, are sewin' machine agents."

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887

Dave alarmin 'us by becomin' melodious, furtive -- melody bein 'wholly onnacheral to Dave, that a-way -- thar's a callow pin-feather party comes caperin' in an 'takin' Old Man Enright one side, asks can he yootilise

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

With this sign, the Crooked Claws comes caperin 'up to the Strike Axes an' the latter fam'ly proceeds to rustle a profoosion of grub; an 'with that they all turns in an' eats old Strike Axe outen house an 'home.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

By every roole of the game that Yank's my captive; but defyin 'restraint he goes caperin' on like he's free.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885