caracole
Example Sentences
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The crude might of the queen was transformed into refined power, restrained and directed by a system of sparkling levers; the pawns grew cleverer; the knights stepped forth with a Spanish caracole .
From Time Magazine Archive
He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt.
From Time Magazine Archive
To thus deprive him of preliminary wrangle and objurgation was to send an armoured knight full tilt against a crashing lance without permitting him first to caracole around the list to the flourish of trumpets.
From Whirligigs by Henry, O.
In his joyous caracole round the lists, the attention of the Prince was called by the commotion, not yet subsided, which had attended the ambitious movement of Isaac towards the higher places of the assembly.
From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir
"Pretty figures we shall cut on ponies while Aramis and Porthos caracole on their steeds."
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
