Word: scampering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seven greasers, after hastily assassinating the owner of the hut (dead men don't talk) scamper into a nearby gully, mount their horses...
...Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks and cottas and, either in church or at formal recitals in concert halls, intone the deep and learned complexities of polyphonic music such as gives the greatest delight to the ears of the erudite...