1 He wanted to shout and to sing and to kiss her and to caper about the lawn and then run tell everyone, black and white, that she loved him.
2 He leaped up and for a moment she thought he was going to cut a caper, before dignity claimed him.
3 She hadn't energy enough to caper before them, to smile blandly at Juanita's rudeness.
4 "That's the caper," sanctioned Harry Haydock.
5 Pearl, looking at this bright wonder of a house began to caper and dance, and imperatively required that the whole breadth of sunshine should be stripped off its front, and given her to play with.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL 6 Jip would bark and caper round us, and go on before, and look back on the landing, breathing short, to see that we were coming.
7 Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.
8 He may have fallen from his horse, he may have cut a caper from the deck; he may have traveled so fast against the wind as to have brought on a violent catarrh.
9 She told herself that she was the daughter of a judge, the wife of a doctor, and that she did not care to know a capering tailor.
10 The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
11 But the countryman seized his fiddle, and struck up a tune, and at the first note judge, clerks, and jailer were in motion; all began capering, and no one could hold the miser.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MISER IN THE BUSH 12 Little Pearl's unwonted mood of sentiment lasted no longer; she laughed, and went capering down the hall so airily, that old Mr. Wilson raised a question whether even her tiptoes touched the floor.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER 13 Black-mail, I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 14 I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.
15 At least we ate as much of it as was done, and made up with capers.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING