curvet

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Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lenore bowed low, and made her pony curvet gayly.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

This plan has its advantages; it allows, for instance, the writer's pen to curvet as well as the artist's pencil.

From Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" by Foote, G. W. (George William)

There are few birds to be seen, except an occasional hawk, who seems to have no other object than to curvet about and display his clipper-built wings for our admiration.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey