cut capers
Example Sentences
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On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some bartenders in Yokohama and Kobe dress up on Christmas night like Santa Claus, serve drinks, cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
This insect, though not arrived at maturity, moved in some degree, and showed sufficient signs of the family to which it belonged, though it was not yet old enough to cut capers.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
And the peasant began to cut capers, as though to amuse his Generals, because they had been kind to him, an idle sluggard, and had not scorned his peasant toil.
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
It maitters little what he putts on, hooiver, for he wad joke an’ cut capers, baith pheesical an’ intellectual, I verily believe, if he was gaun to be hanged!
From The Garret and the Garden by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
