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.

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Then these two began to salaam one another, and mouth out fool phrases, and cavort and prance and caracole, until I thought them mad.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams

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

Peggy was waving her hand—her hat had flown off at the first caracole, and Rita had ridden over it several times—and shouting in jubilation.

From Three Margarets by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

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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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

Angel and I followed closely with occasional caracoles, and cavortings, and scornful blowings through the nostrils.

From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley

He is drily humorous as he shows us some plumaged General peacocking on foot, or swelling with Napoleonic pride as he caracoles by on his horse.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

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

Under the massy double gate caracoled the charger.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

When he came to regard it more closely, he perceived, by signs not to be mistaken, that it was no other than the animal which had, the day before, caracoled under the weight of Salvatierra.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

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

In front of his berlin ride a number of attendants, caracoling in all directions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

"And then Gambetta was pointed out to them during the entr'acte—after which, delighted, they went off caracoling and pirouetting behind the scenes: "'You did not see Monsieur Gambetta, but I saw him!'

From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts

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