curvet
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Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pannade, pa-nād′, n. the curvet of a horse.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Lenore bowed low, and made her pony curvet gayly.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
With a toss of her mane, that is glossy as jet, With a dance and a prance, and a frolic curvet, She is off! she is stepping superbly away!
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Jerry pranced and curveted, and finally shot forward his rider, or rather his burden, headforemost, a distance of several feet into the water.
From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
His relief, therefore, when Archie curveted into his private room and announced that he had succeeded was great.
From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
He curveted past me into the sitting-room, and when I got there after shutting the front door I found him reading Aunt Agatha's cable and giggling in a rummy sort of manner.
From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
And she had laughed and said: "Yes, an angel in a temper—what a run you will have, Dad!" and had waved from the gate as the angel in a temper curveted away around the corner.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
And, in fact, as I drew near to the Avenue de l'Imperatrice my steed obstinately refused to go any further: he curveted sideways and backwards and frequently stood stock-still.
From My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner
He retreated a little, or rather he edged away toward the right, wheeling and curveting after the manner of the Apaches, in order to present an unsteady mark for their archery.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
There was a rapid mounting, and in five minutes they were all on horseback, curveting in circles, and brandishing their lances, but without advancing.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
A new and strange paralysis of all his emotions seemed to have crept over Durkin, as he watched the cab door slammed shut and the horses go plunging and curveting out through the crowd.
From Phantom Wires A Novel by Arthur William Brown
Her prancing progress paused there for a moment, and she waited with one knee highly elevated, like a statue of a curveting horse, before she finally decided to pass on.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
And then the wherefore of all this dashing horsemanship, this curveting, prancing, galloping revival of knightly tourney effects was apparent—Judith Rodney had opened post-office.
From Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning
Over Dayton, Ohio, last week curvetted three new little airplanes, undergoing rigorous U. S. Army Air Corps tests in its present search for an advanced type training plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Sundra Straits, he curvetted over the mountains and jungles of Sumbawa, Dutch island.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty feet above Aslan and Digory he snorted, neighed, and curvetted.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
When we were on our way back from Ypres on our return, a horse ridden by an officer suddenly curvetted across the road in front of us.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
Obedient to the lightest touch or word of his master, with ears in restless motion, he curvetted like a racer under the wire.
From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland
Alfredo, made his pony caper and look hard to ride, curvetting, sidling, closer and closer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The horses can smell the tiger scent and begin neighing and curvetting, trying to get away from it.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
The day of our reception, in curvetting about, he fell from his horse and had suffered various pains ever since.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
Then there came from astern a hot, puffy breeze, and the schooner stood out on a port tack, curvetting prettily as her sails were trimmed and filled.
From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
Lastly came the hobby-horse, ambling, curvetting, and snapping its jaws.
From Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
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