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Examples
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"You would have had a sharp skimper-scamper hadst been allowed to go another half-mile."
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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- and, there, all the lamps are broke, - and the women run skimper scamper.
Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Fanny Burney 1796
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– and, there, all the lamps are broke, – and the women run skimper scamper.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778
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- and, there, all the lamps are broke, - and the women run skimper scamper.
Evelina 1778
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