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

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

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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 Janey Canuck

By so doing, the mouth of the horse receives a jerk which seldom fails to make it rear and curvet from side to side.

From The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America by D. H. Friston

The pad began to curvet as the post horses rattled behind, and the Parson had only an indistinct vision of a human face supplanting these human legs.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

The sea seemed almost boundless, and dashed in noisy surges below, while the birds curveted and screamed above.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge

"You bet!" responded the girl actor, as she curveted down toward the factory in response to the whistle calling them back to their work.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

He curveted towards their table, beaming and erect, his head up, his gaze level, and his chest expanded, for all the world as if he had been reading the hints in "The Personality That Wins."

From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

It curveted, it kicked, it jumped a little drain, it careered into the water, making a tremendous splashing.

From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

He was silent for a moment, and the horse curveted gracefully under him, as if in doubt whether to gallop away again, or to ask his rider to get off.

From Ahead of the Army by C. Chase Emerson

They had passed the mounted herders, and the colts broke their way playfully, dancing, curveting with bowing necks, into the midst of the flock.

From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson

"I like you better, Charley," said she, curveting her horse, and passaging him alternately from side to side.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

Let me read it for you, dear Tanty, the picture hangs a little high and those curveting letters are hard to decipher.

From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle

A touch of the spur to my horse and I was abreast of them, Frances Sutherland curveting her cayuse from the trail to give me middle place.

From Lords of the North by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

But alas, you can’t codify genuflections, nor yet a handshake. 123The next degree in the imperial advent was the imperial courier, who proclaimed from a curveting steed what everybody suspected.

From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

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.

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Twenty feet above Aslan and Digory he snorted, neighed, and curvetted.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

But though Martin held her head, the animal yet started and shied and curvetted every time Miss Kit gathered the reins in her hand and lifted her foot to the stirrup.

From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed

Like a voluntary before the piece begins, like the elegant and marvellous sweep of lines with which a scribe surrounds his signature, the bay curvetted and wheeled and danced before the proposed introduction.

From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner

Alfredo, made his pony caper and look hard to ride, curvetting, sidling, closer and closer.

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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

It was a stirring scene of meeting, and chatting, and laughing, and rearing, and curvetting, and fresh air, and sunshine.

From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

We did not whirl up the street, with our horse curvetting proudly and the jarvey clinging to the reins.

From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson

And taking their places before a great express wagon, went prancing and curvetting their way from door to door, Mr. Fisk stopping wherever a beckoning hand appeared at a window.

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris