caracole

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

Though the winged-horse must caracole free— With the pretty, when "spurning the plain," Should the team-work fall wholly on me While he soars with Dolores and Jane?

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

"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

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 Sir Walter Scott

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.

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Thus!" he shouted, waving his hand to Amyas, between his curvets and caracoles, "did my illustrious grandfather exhibit to the Paynim emperor the prowess of a Castilian cavalier!

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

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

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

Above Beirut's Place des Canons last week R.A.F. planes roared and caracoled.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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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

Heart's palfrey caracoled gaily round, Heart tra-li-ra'd merrily; But Brain sat still, with never a sound, So cynical-calm was he.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt

As he caracoled up and down before the house, with the sun shining on his fair head, he looked to my eyes as beautiful as Apollo.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman

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

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

If it be a building speculation, the architecture is but the background of a brilliant "mall," where splendid equipages and caracoling riders figure, with gay parasols and sleek poodles intermixed.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

These would never, by any gamesome caracoling, endanger the coherency of pole with body, of axle with wheel.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various

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