caracole
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He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 .
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Sunshine revisited the countenance of Master Jeremy Sparrow; he swung his great body into the saddle, gathered up the reins, and made the mare to caracole across the path for very joy.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
"Here is a brave victory," snorted Von Donck; and he gave vent to his delight by turning a caracole upon the forehead of the giant.
From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena
The victorious knight made his horse caracole before the king, and bowed low in his saddle.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
The waiter prodded the table to try caracoles, or snails, eaten by pushing a toothpick into the shell and dragging out the body.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2011
But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn.
From Time Magazine Archive
There it hums and caracoles, through the bottles and glasses; reckless what dangerous breakage and spilth it may occasion.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
He then mounts his horse, caracoles about, brandishing his lance, and afterwards in the courtyard he repeats the performances before the people ever eager to take part in the spectacle.
From English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
Fialin had the arrogant air of a man who caracoles before a crime.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
In front of it, as the week went on, a thousand horses paraded, galloped, caracoled — black and grey, hunter and hackney, carriage-horse and teamster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above Beirut's Place des Canons last week R.A.F. planes roared and caracoled.
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Shadow’s mount caracoled away from it, and Shadow stroked its neck and told it not to be afraid.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
As he rode through the gathering darkness he caracoled with an enviable lightness of heart.
From Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Fox-hunting squires caracoled by with the air of paladins; and there was never a lady mentioned that did not take the fancy like a princess in an old tale.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
Prancing, caracoling or stiffly reined in, they constitute a lexicon of equine movement that Western art could hardly rival for another 1400 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of many existing causes for alarm, one minor one has been Author Louis Golding's caracoling cleverness, which has frightened away more than a few cautious readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am of opinion, however, that he was fully aware of both matters, and Mpamari's caracoling showed that he knew it all, though now he denies it.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
No doubt, my splendid Arab, caracoling as if he had not been out of the stable for a week, came in for a large share of the admiration.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
And the earl followed with his eyes the graceful steed and equally graceful rider, caracoling in front of the Castle window.
From A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
