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Romps was a series of tales illustrated by Harry Furniss, with verses by Horace Lennard and printed by Edmund Evans in 1885. The comical picture book depicts children romping in various settings.
For the illustrations, Harry Furniss used his own children as models. The illustrations received praise from George du Maurier.
Hearts are kept by Love and Glee
Young and buoyant as a feather
Come then, children, follow me,
Let us have a romp together.
Usage examples of "romps".
You've seen those puppies at the playground or the seaside, tethered to a fence while the whole world romps and dances.
A woman whom I had loved, who had risen up against me and cast me aside for another, a body loved by me as a brother should love his sister, with nothing about it unfamiliar to me from all our childhood romps and swims, and yet it was a woman's body, and it was in my arms, and in a moment of daring, I kissed her again, and then again, and then even once more, and I felt her begin to burn against me.
And though Mary Beth, now the dutiful mother of three, would not go with me on my romps anymore, I took my young lovers with me, and had the double pleasure of the women and my young men with them.
For over half a century, simple CE devices had been used for recreational romps in various virtual-reality environments.
On the face of it the proprieties were being observed because Mrs Ashley was always present when these romps took place, but she seems not to have noticed that Elizabeth's response to her stepfather's teasing was not that of a child.
No longer did she wish to join in her husband's early morning romps with Elizabeth.