caracole

He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Leap -- N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation†. ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade†, gambado†; capriole, demivolt†; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade†. kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper†; wallaby.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

He pushed then hither and thither—made his knights slide along with the episcopal propriety of bishops, and made his bishops caracole across the squares with the unseemly elasticity of knights.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

When she found herself alone, she let her pony prance and caracole under a great pear-tree, and inwardly chafed against Anton.

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The little girl caracoles sedately, clad in a riding habit, and armed with a crop.

From Light by Fitzwater Wray

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It was illuminated by order of the conquerors, and, whether bongrè or malgrè, it looked showy; we had gazers in abundance, as the dashing staff caracoled their way through the streets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

They were all glittering with gold and polished steel, and their horses bounded and caracoled as if impatient for a charge.'

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever

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

Tram-cars passed constantly across the street in front of his caracoling horse, dividing a route for themselves in the wild ocean of traffic as Moses cut into the Red Sea.

From The Regent by Arnold Bennett

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

Any fool could see that his caracoling was funny.

From Mr. Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair