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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.

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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

"Pretty figures we shall cut on ponies while Aramis and Porthos caracole on their steeds."

From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

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 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.

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Still, whatever her caracoles or escapades, they caused Florimel nothing but amusement, for her confidence in Malcolm -- that he could do whatever he believed he could -- was unbounded.

From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald

The market-lady caracoles around, and leads Browne to infer that his conduct is not approved, from her festooning that gentleman's eyes with heavy lines of crape.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

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

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

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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

The horses reared and caracoled, daintily striking the ground with their hoofs; one was ebony black, with a bluish tinge; the other, white as snow, shone like silver.

From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Eugène Sue

Every third man in that great company which splashed and caracoled through the fords of Lochar, was a William, a James, or an Archibald Douglas.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

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.

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As soon as she remarks that a man has a hobby-horse, she makes him ride it, puts it through all its paces, caracoling, leaping, haute école.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

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

The citizen guard, a stately body of burghers, rides out with the king on this day of all the year, and comes caracoling by in fine style, he in the midst bowing and smiling.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various