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

To display his skill before the ladies, he set spurs to his horse, making it bound and curvet "as valiantly as any man could do."

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

You unhorse your foeman, curvet up to the royal box to receive the victor's chaplet, swing from your saddle, and fall flat on your face.

From A Matter of Proportion by Walker, Anne

Well, he rode no less than three times up and down the same street, and regularly under a certain balcony; let his horse curvet so senselessly that one dreaded an accident every moment.

From Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by Werner, E.