cut capers
Example Sentences
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Some bartenders in Yokohama and Kobe dress up on Christmas night like Santa Claus, serve drinks, cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The performers were all humorous, frisky fellows, who loved to cut capers in private life; but as soon as they were arranged for the dance, they conducted themselves like so many mutes at a funeral.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
He cut capers on it; and made it laugh, and cry, and whistle, and snort, and scream.
From Two Christmas Celebrations by Parker, Theodore
Of course, I had to admit that Lord Alfred Douglas, before he began to cut capers in the hinterland of Fleet Street, had been a poet.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold
