cut a caper

Example Sentences

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When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

He peeped into the bag and cut a caper of delight when he saw the buns.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

He would get up suddenly and cut a caper, rubbing his hands every time that the thought of your fresh laurels came into his head.

From The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Southey, Robert

Cut a caper on nothing, said Gymnast; my pages use to cut capers on the ground; to cut a caper on nothing should be hanging and choking, or I am out.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

The patchwork blouse cut a caper, a look of lively joy shot from the man's eyes, where a tear was gathering, and the wagon, from its bursting cover, gave utterance to a sob.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various