caper
verb (used without object)
was capering
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past progressiveof caper.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In the steeple of the Park Avenue Baptist Church a man was capering in frenzied activity, engaged with two rows of levers.
From Time Magazine Archive
I must be closer to her if I am to get the strangler into her cup, yet howl Patchface was capering about as the maester made his slow way around the table to Davos Seaworth.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Groups would admonish Yelpers, who was capering in his crib while Bunks was being lashed in with the largest size of safety pins.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
He was capering madly to the music of his own fiddle, with a lantern dangling at his breast.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
But the leper was capering away over the rocks, hopping and flapping his arms like an old raven.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
