``You're a queer little piece,'' said he. ``Why do you want to go thar?''
``I want to find Tom McChesney for Polly Ann,'' I said. He turned away his face. ``A good-for-nothing scamp,'' said he. ``I have long thought so,'' I said. He laughed again. It was a laugh that made me want to join him, had I not been irritated. ``And he's a scamp, you say.英文原著 · 《The Crossing》
She did not know how long she slept. But she had been tired enough to sleep deeply and profoundly--too deeply and soundly to be disturbed by anything, even by the squeaks and scamperings of Melchisedec's entire family, if all his sons and daughters had chosen to come out of their hole to fight and tumble and play.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
"The earlier speculations of the firm of Cerizet and Claparon were, however, well planned. The two scamps joined forces with Barbet, Chaboisseau, Samanon, and usurers of that stamp, and bought up hopelessly bad debts.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
With that he dropped softly into the street, and I after him, turning to the right instead of the left, and that at a brisk trot instead of the innocent walk which had brought us to the bank. Like mice we scampered past the great schoolroom, with its gable snipping a paler sky than ever, and the shadows melting even in the colonnade underneath. Masters' houses flitted by on the left, lesser landmarks on either side, and presently we were running our heads into the dawn, one under either hedge of the Stockley road.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"Swell!" said the Anglo-Dane, puzzled. "Not that I am aware of." She was strictly on her guard against vituperation of her beloved scamp.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
This munificent offer surprised and delighted Severne, and, indeed, no other man but Cousin George, who had a heart of gold, and was grateful to Ned's father, and also loved the scamp himself, as everybody did, would have made such an offer.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
When cops get going investigating cops, they're worse than scamps in a sewing circle.美剧 · 《Billions》