was capering
- past progressive of caper.
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
Old man Magnus was capering around the quarter-deck wild with glee, rushing hither and thither, only returning every moment to pat the little Armstrong, as though it were a living thing.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
When the old man looked up at him, there he was in the open air pasturing the goat, who, delighted at her liberty, was capering round on the grass.
From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Rosegger, Peter
"What's the matter?" asked Jack, for the old hunter was capering about like a boy.
From Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Rockwood, Roy
