scamper

Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.

Woo scampers up to the troll holding Autumn and starts throwing tiny punches at his ankle—but Autumn’s captor doesn’t even seem to feel it.

She dropped to all fours and scampered along the floor, just as she used to.

At Beowulf’s chirruping call, the little rodent scampered into the nursery and offered Penelope a great prize indeed: a single perfect acorn, carried with pride in those tiny, monkeylike paws.

“I will give you the loveliest present if you could scamper off and not come back. A nice, crunchy bone, perhaps?”