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About her romped and played two little balls of fur, but her eyes were for one which lay between her great forepaws and did not romp, one who never would romp again.

The romp had ended with the appearance of Nana, and most unluckily Mr.

Of the two girls of the house one was pious and the other a romp; both were coarse-minded--if they may be credited with any mind at all.

And he told all the animals to get out too and romp on the grass to stretch their legs.

But Esther is a child as yet, a little merry romp of fourteen: as honest-hearted, and as guileless and simple as her sister, but with a fearless spirit of her own, that I fancy her mother will find some difficulty in bending to her purposes.

And now foolest thou me fleeing; thou sweet romp dost annoy!

Friendly to all, he reserved his love for Steward alone, though he was not above many an undignified romp with the fox-terriers.

He had begun to romp with them in a feeble, awkward way, and even to squabble, his little throat vibrating with a queer rasping noise (the forerunner of the growl), as he worked himself into a passion.

A romp in the drawing-room and never mind the furniture, or a scamper in the fresh, cool air, a scud across the fields and down the hill, and won't we let old Gaffer Goggles' geese know what time o' day it is, neither!

At sixteen, Miss Murray was something of a romp, yet not more so than is natural and allowable for a girl of that age, but at seventeen, that propensity, like all other things, began to give way to the ruling passion, and soon was swallowed up in the all-absorbing ambition to attract and dazzle the other sex.

It was a pity that I needed once more to describe the portentous little activity by which she sought to divert my attention--the perceptible increase of movement, the greater intensity of play, the singing, the gabbling of nonsense, and the invitation to romp.

Also I, who had romped along carelessly through the countries of the world and the kingdom of the mind, was not a member of any union.