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
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 Rossiter Johnson
This plan has its advantages; it allows, for instance, the writer's pen to curvet as well as the artist's pencil.
From Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" by G. W. (George William) Foote
The horse, indeed, starts with his heels in the air, and will curvet and gallop and perform as many tricks as a tumbler.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
It curveted, it kicked, it jumped a little drain, it careered into the water, making a tremendous splashing.
From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
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
The sleek bay plunged and curveted, so that my own sober brown began to dance in rivalry.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
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
He curveted into the room as if he had bought it and the rest of the city.
From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Our young hero presented his revolver, but they apparently knew the short range of the weapon, and came plunging, curveting onward.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
At this marvel he stared in that silence which is the highest power of joy: a presentiment had been his that such a horse, curveting on blue rockers, would be found on this very morning.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
Nevertheless, the gentle and well-fed mule of a curate goes as far as the curveting palfrey of a knight.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
Another minute and, curveting with impatience even after their twenty-mile spurt, the handsome bays were dancing in one long line over the springy turf, Davies and two stalwart sergeants in front of the three platoons.
From Under Fire by C. B. Cox
He was superbly mounted, and his long body made a heroic figure on the curveting charger.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
At Sundra Straits, he curvetted over the mountains and jungles of Sumbawa, Dutch island.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Twenty feet above Aslan and Digory he snorted, neighed, and curvetted.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
Thousands of costumes and equipages made the town a panorama of luxury; and countless thoroughbreds, of which the King alone possessed more than two thousand, glistened and curvetted in the streets.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
Regardless of the sneering words wafted to them as they skated past Ralph and his friends, Ernest and Ben, with glowing cheeks and tingling blood, wheeled and curvetted until they were well-nigh breathless.
From Miss Theodora A West End Story by Helen Leah Reed
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
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
Dozens of wild fellows were curvetting and racing around him.
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The young trooper stood one instant looking gratefully after his officer and those curvetting steeds, eager to reach their home and supper.
From Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest by Charles King
