caracole
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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
They examined the new horse and made him caracole about the yard.
From The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Fifty paces ahead he pulled up and let his horse caracole.
From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by M?r J?kai
We are to halt two days here, and before that is over, I hope you'll have made your last caracole in the riding-school of Nancy.'
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
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
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
He then mounts his horse, caracoles about, brandishing his lance, and afterwards in the courtyard he repeats the performances before the people ever eager to take part in the spectacle.
From English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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
Above Beirut's Place des Canons last week R.A.F. planes roared and caracoled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
For them his horse caracoled on Stonefield's causeway, his shoulders straightened, and his bonnet rose.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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
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
Behold there the horse of the Rajput—foaming, panting, caracoling, but always fettered with his head so majestic upon his bosom so amply filled with a generous heart.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
The cabs shoot by, caracoling through the orderly lines of traffic; zigzags of yellow, green, blue, lavender, black and white snorting along with a fine disdain.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
She turned towards the drive, Smith caracoling at her side.
From The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
