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

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 Canuck, Janey

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

From time to time he made his beast curvet, and laughed at himself inwardly for doing it.

From Black Amazon of Mars by Brackett, Leigh Douglass