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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

After a moment or two of this exercise, with a quick curvet, the insect betook himself to the roof of the piazza, where he disappeared among the bordering vines.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

No sooner does the mare hear those words than she begins to dance and curvet, showing in every possible way her anxiety to start and her sense of the importance of her duties.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Robert Charles Tombs

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 Anne Walker

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

As Desdemona curveted down past Finn the tip of her gaily-waving tail was allowed once to glance over the Irish wolfhound's wiry coat; the merest suggestion of a touch.

From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Norman Rockwell

"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 was in a very pessimistic frame of mind when Jimmy curveted into the room, with his head in the clouds and his feet on air.

From The Gem Collector by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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

That instinctive, ferocious, and tireless fighter, while seeming to be merely circling and curveting among his assailants, contrived to recharge two barrels of his revolver, and was once more ready for business.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

It's rather like asking for a field-marshal's baton and a curveting charger—and getting instead a musket and place in the ranks.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr

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

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

Only half a dozen followed him; his horse fell almost immediately under a rifle ball; one of the braves picked up the chief and bore him away; the rest dispersed, prancing and curveting.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

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

She curvetted and circled around and stood on her hind legs in a most alarming manner.

From The Motor Maids Across the Continent by Katherine Stokes

Whereupon the seats revolved gayly, the Arabs curvetted; and from the base of the stout canopy pole there sounded a merry tune.

From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates

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

We stopped; in a trice she was out of the carriage, had untied my horse, and was up in the saddle, prancing and curvetting around us.

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

The fourth pageant was a kind of "chase," full of shepherds and others preparing cloth, dancing, tumbling, and curvetting, being intended to represent confusion.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

Lastly came the hobby-horse, ambling, curvetting, and snapping its jaws.

From Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton