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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

One morning when she was capering and laughing, flower-crowned, at the doorstep, she looked to me like a being from another world.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

She was plainly ready for the street, an intention understood by Beppo, the late Mrs. Allerton’s red cocker spaniel, who was capering about her in the hope of sharing the promenade.

From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)

The colt, with the clergyman's coat between his teeth, was capering over the hill.

From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)