Which preposition to use with romp
She won't biteQueeniebad girl!come back from that nasturtium-bedbad girl!all washed and combed so pretty for a romp with her favver when him come home so tired.
"He couldn't explore the attic an' rig up in the old clothes there any more, nor romp through the garden, nor go lunchin' in the woods, nor none of the things she wanted him to do.
Just as they rose to take their leave an extraordinary uproar burst forth beneath the window, the piercing clamor of little wildings, freely romping in the fields.
He said it would make his girls rough and noisy to romp about the house with cats, and his boys would look like rowdies if they went about with dogs at their heels.
Why, I had the Leamy Ladies looking like children romping on the nursery floor.
They can frisk, frolic, play "hide-and-seek", "catch", and race and romp at a great rate.
'English education,' he says in another letter, 'may be all very well to instruct the hemming of handkerchiefs, and the ungainly romps of a country-dance, but nothing else; and it would be a poor consolation to your declining years to see your daughters come into the room upon their elbows, and to find their accomplishments limited to broad native phraseology in conversation, or thumping the "Woodpecker" upon a discordant spinet.'
I have seen scores of white children holding the hands of colored boys and trudging along on the march with them or romping into their tents and sitting on their knees and just exuding the affection that all the children of France have for anything and everybody from the United States.
He has no idea of the manners of high life: his old Lord M. talks in the style of a country justice, and his virtuous young ladies romp like the wenches round a maypole.
Here the children can romp from morning till night, instead of living in the stifled air of the tenement houses.
The State University took on Cartwright College for the first Saturday's game, everybody well knowing that it was only a practice romp for the University.
We had a warm sun, a clear sky, and now and then we could feel the soft feet of the south wind romping over us in the river way.
What Clive did best, she did better than Garrick; but could not do half so many things well; she was a better romp than any I ever saw in nature.
There I was a boylived as a boy, romped as a boy, and loved boyish things.
Georgie was not allowed to walk in the wet grass, to climb up the ladder on to the half-completed hayrick, and romp under the rick-cloth, to paddle with naked feet in the shallow brook, or any other of the things that country children have done from time immemorial.
Beauty had momentarily escaped his vigilance and enjoyed a mad romp after a squirrel before she was captured.
True, they rode and played and swam and romped without restraint, but beneath all of their abandon there lurked the ever-present pathos of the jail, the asylum, the detention ward.