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But this gentle pen-pusher in Frankfort, who passed his vocabulary at Froben's proofreader, Erasmus in time calls a "schamp," because he used cheap paper, cheap ink and close margins.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Well, next day after I was looking up that pleasant word "scamp," I was reading in the Amusing Works of Erasmus, when I ran across the word again, but spelled in Dutch, thus, "schamp."
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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"So they were goin’ on wid the blaggârdin’ match, whin the blessed saint, that come out whin he heard thim begin, an’ thin set on the dure a-watchin’, to see that owld Nick didn’t schamp the job, interfared.
Irish Wonders 1878
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