From the impeachment of Strafford to Farmer Lynch's short way with the scamps of Virginia there have been many triumphs of justice which are mockeries of law.
He smiled to himself at stories too bad to tell, and called Elfride a little scamp for surreptitiously preserving some blind kittens that ought to have been drowned.
A “Saturday Night Live” sketch last weekend turned one of Depp's wildest accusations against Heard into a skit, treating her as a figure of ridicule and him as a charming scamp.
Well, it was young Leonards, old Leonards the draper's son, as great a scamp as ever lived — who plagued his father almost to death, and then ran off to sea.
" You're right; I'm a scamp, " he exclaimed. " Really now, I am quite furious with myself! I could slap my face" ! He had taken her hands, and was kissing them and inundating them with tears.