Which preposition to use with scamp

of Occurrences 8%

Their medicine men, priests, and jugglers, are proverbially the greatest scamps of the tribe.

in Occurrences 6%

What business have you got here, I should like to know?As for you," continued the speaker, casting a scornful glance at the originator of the outrage, "I should have thought a fellow who's a prefect ought to know better than to go rioting with every scamp in the school.

like Occurrences 3%

It's punishment bad enough for a little scamp like him leaving the honest shore, and folks to home that were a bit tender of him maybe, to rough it on a trader, learning how to slush down a back-stay, or tie reef-points with frozen fingers in a snow-squall.

from Occurrences 2%

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

for Occurrences 1%

I've had to do with too many handsome scamps for that.

into Occurrences 1%

And I saw my glorious Alice snatch the little scamp into her arms and treat him with more affection than I had ever imagined was in her nature.

on Occurrences 1%

They saw Unc' Billy coming, and when he reached the bank of the Smiling Pool there sat the three little scamps on the Big Rock, but all he could see was their backs.

to Occurrences 1%

In all your libel suits against these degraded wretches I sympathize entirely with you, and there are thousands who now thank you in their hearts for the moral courage you display in bringing these licentious scamps to a knowledge of their duty.

under Occurrences 1%

It's a rotten shame to have that lowdown scamp under Mr. Hooper's roof.

at Occurrences 1%

No matter how confident and plucky you may be, Fred, you know it is no guarantee against a bullet from one of those scamps at five hundred or a thousand yards.

with Occurrences 1%

And the good Castiliansa dozen little scamps with long capes and ancient swords whose hilts reached up to their mouthswould hasten to group themselves around their chief, who was imitating the heroic gestures of the conqueror.

before Occurrences 1%

Hand me over to the sheriff!" Patterson had suddenly grasped both the hands of the picturesque scamp before him, with an affection that for an instant almost shamed the man who had ruined him.

by Occurrences 1%

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

during Occurrences 1%

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

Which preposition to use with  scamp