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
You may for instance give me some pledge or sign that if I do figure—prance and caracole and sufficiently kick up the dust—your eye won't suffer itself to be distracted from me.
From The Awkward Age by James, Henry
The victorious knight made his horse caracole before the king, and bowed low in his saddle.
From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.
The discomfiture of the procession was quite a delightful entertainment for him, and he made his little mule caracole about in the hope of an encore.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis
