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 they go, prancing over the ground, causing their gaily caparisoned steeds to caper and curvet, especially in front of the tiers of seated señoritas.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
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
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
She turned her head and saw him looking after her, and in her pleasure at the sight she reined in Ali until he reared erect in the air and curveted proudly.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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
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
Then she would watch Absalom with all the confidence of happy anticipation, as he rode off down the mountain with his hair flaunting, and his spurs jingling, and his shy young horse curveting.
From His "Day In Court" 1895 by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
The river—the baby—the river—the baby; and in and through, and betwixt and between, there spun the whirling merry-go-round, with its curveting wooden horses, its discordant organ, and its creaking machinery.
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
“Much obliged to you, sir, for the information,” said Whaup, controlling, with some difficulty, the incessant curveting of his steed.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
In truth the King and all the Knights of the Round Table were ready to expire with laughter at Tom on his fine curveting steed.
From English Fairy Tales by Arthur Rackham
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
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
The hat, like a live thing with the devil in it, bounded and curvetted wildly, doubled away from Dale, dodged Rachel, and sprang right over Norah's head, threatening to make for the open sea.
From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell
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
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
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
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
