He jes' stood wid his hans on his sides an' larf an' larf, till de Jedge he hev ter larf too, an' he call him a graceless scamp, an' say he send him ter Coventry, an' Mass Lennux he say 'all right ef de Jedge go 'long too, an' take de horses, he couldn't do widout dem nohow.'

Do not scamp the lists, though their proper preparation consume many days, many weeks.

Sabotage, from a French term meaning wooden shoe, has come to be applied to the deliberate and systematic scamping of one's work in order to injure one's employer.

And the old accountant was even aware that the young scamp, after stranding on the pavement of Paris, had led the vilest of lives there.

Annie had been out for only a short walk; but she happened to have her pocket-book with her, and she thoughtlessly drew it out, meaning to give the scamp a trifle, if only to get rid of him.

He had a warm heart, was a genuine friend, and would have shed his last drop of blood for them; but Terrence was, after all, a young scamp, whose dearest friend was not free from a practical joke.

"You little scamp, you know very well that I can carry you off to Corte or to Bastia.

Here again we see reason for excepting to the sweeping jeremiads of cynicism, and concluding that tho there may be fraud and scamping in the industrial world, genuine production, faithful service, disciplined energy, and skill in organization, can not wholly have departed from the earth.

He had been a scamp from his cradle, a spendthrift at Eton and Oxford, a blackleg in his manhood.

Talebot the Hunchback, a celebrated Scamp during the Seventeenth Century.

he replied; "every body had a constrained air, as if they were in bondage, and it made my blood boil to see two fine-appearing men waiting so obsequiously on a good-for-nothing young scamp, just because he had a title to his name.

And don't dare to tell me, next time, that you never heard of the scale of A flat major, my little scamp!" Kirk, to whom the Maestro's word was law, delivered his message very solemnly to Ken, who laughed.

This saved an immense amount of trouble to the senate and magistrates, who were usually busily engaged in other matters; nor was there at first any harm in the system, so long as the Romans were morally sound, and incapable of jobbing or scamping their work.

Mean little scamp!

"The scamp we almost captured had been kind enough to tell us that you boys were in trouble and perhaps that had something to do with our coming back.

"I wonder if the little scamp is in trouble again?" thought Ned.

The gáruda put his púngi to his lips, and blew for a while upon it a low and wheezy drone,the invariable prelude to a little jadoo, or black art,which the beautiful animal appeared to appreciate: and then, pointing with the end of his pipe to the "spectacles" on its hood, he said, with that silky, insinuating smile which is characteristic of the scamp: Huzoor, dekho, namas karta: Nágki phani, chánd ka dúkh Uski badi, áp ka súkh.

For this latter reason, and also the liability to damage by sudden floods during the progress of the works, dams of Portland cement concrete, on account of their quick consolidation, possess advantages over those of hydraulic masonry apart from the necessity in the latter instance of constant supervision to prevent "scamping" by leaving chinks and spaces vacant, especially where large masses of stone or Cyclopean rubble are used.

"Did you hear the girl," he asked, "the little scamp?

Sir Lancelot and Scamp.

These rookeries do not furnish forth burglars and accomplished pickpockets, like those of cities, but they do send out a gang of lazy, scamping fellows and coarse women, who are almost useless.

The letter was kind o' short and about like this: "'Pardon me for introducing a scamp by the name of Roberts.

But this scamp, when they were having family worship, used to fill in with "Amen!"

Why, you are a more disgraceful scamp than I believed you to be.

"He is a dangerous scamp.