Impish youngster having most of shellfish

Usage examples of scamp.

To his hint Phips had only replied with a laugh: these harum-scarum scamps were more to his mind than ordinary seamen.

He told enough about the past of that young scamp, Shane, alone to queer the pair with any finnicky employer.

Rushton continued his monologue throughout the rescue, occasionally referring to Scamp as a dustbin and a lapdog, expressions that he accompanied with a grin at Selina.

But truly, Zeid, it would hurt me to see you fail to win Fire Lotus because you are too Moonship wise to stoop to tricks that come naturally to a scamp like myself.

The little scamp was only thirty-one years old and the owner of the most successful nonunion summer stock theater in the East.

It is not of the Bedouins that such travellers are afraid, for the safe conduct granted by the chief of the ruling tribe is never, I believe, violated, but it is said that there are deserters and scamps of various sorts who hover about the skirts of the Desert, particularly on the Cairo side, and are anxious to succeed to the property of any poor devils whom they may find more weak and defenceless than themselves.

I was introduced to the blacklegs in your bar-room, and by a scamp who was a habitual lounger here.

A young scamp about fifteen years old, Isidore Duval by name, and called, for convenience, Zidore, took care of this pensioner, gave him his measure of oats and fodder in winter, and in summer was supposed to change his pasturing place four times a day, so that he might have plenty of fresh grass.

Overgrown and unspanked, you are, if I knew that old scamp you lived with.

He is an incorrigible scamp born to Spring Fragrance in the Yangzhou whorehouse, Vernal Delights.

He supped with us, but he only opened his mouth to eat, and his mistress only spoke of her son, whose talents she lauded to the skies, though he was in reality a mere scamp.

That scamp brought me back the smiles of Fortune, and from that moment I got rid of the ill luck which had seemed to fasten on me.

Sure, the man was a scamp, probably a deserter, certainly a belittler who always looked at things in the meanest of terms, but-- well, there it was.

Scamp had fabulous legs, and her bralessness left no doubts about the lusciousness and authenticity of her chest, but after an hour of conversation about something or other, before suggesting that they leave together, Junior maneuvered her into a reasonably private corner and discreetly put a hand up her skirt, just to confirm that his gender suspicions were correct.

Morel usually quarrelled with her lace woman, sympathised with her fruit man -- who was a gabey, but his wife was a bad 'un -- laughed with the fish man -- who was a scamp but so droll -- put the linoleum man in his place, was cold with the odd-wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven -- or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish.