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  • And then, as usual, while the orchestra played a sort o 'vampin' accompaniment, I sprang a gag, the way I do on the stage.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • I lykes the Take 5 guitar work but I like it mush better wif Brubeck vampin anna piano an listenin to the drummer dealing creativly wid teh unorfodox 5/4 time signachure.

    Effishuncie cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Ain't you hear'n tell of flirty gals what goes about vampin 'nice young men jus' fer a good time?

    Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • I make all allowances for the gear, and the gettin 'up, and the vampin', and all that sort o 'flash; but toggery won't make an ugly gall handsum, nohow you can fix it.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • I make all allowances for the gear, and the gettin 'up, and the vampin', and all that sort o 'flash; but toggery won't make an ugly gall handsum, nohow you can fix it.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • Cherry was with him, laughin 'and makin' eyes, and vampin 'away like she always does, an' him an 'her danced a lot after that -- "

    The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill 1906

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