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An talkin ob kitteh gangs – ai finkso gang warfare just broke owt in mai back yard – lotsa yowlin and scamperin an thuddin an hissin an teh like!
Rock, paper, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Ai haz a vizhun of liddul Mausie scamperin between awl hiz computerz…..
now dat i has ur attenshun - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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For Debbie did not approve at all of "the young folks scamperin 'off jes' so soon as dey gets back home agin."
Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck Janet D. Wheeler
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Johnnie, dear, books was what _he_ loved, and when he was a little telegraph messenger, he'd read when he could, in betwixt scamperin 'here and there with messages.
The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913
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A number o 'wery perticerler ladies, arter breakfast even, has jest come scamperin'.
Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Julia McCune Flory 1906
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But presently his hands commenced chasin 'one' nother up and down the keys, like a passel of rats scamperin 'through a garret very swift.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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The general tuk nae heed o't, but walked on and was soon oot o 'sicht, and I didna lose a minute in creepin' oot frae my hidin 'place and scamperin' awa 'back tae my room, and if a' the bogies in the Red Sea were trapesin 'up and doon the hale nicht through, I wud never put my heid oot again tae hae a glimpse o' them.
The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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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
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But presently his hands commenced chasin 'one another up and down the keys, like a passel of rats scamperin' through a garret very swift.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887
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It's about second drink time one August mornin 'an' me an 'my eight mules goes scamperin' through a little Mexican plaza called Tramperos on our way to the
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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