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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

Well, he rode no less than three times up and down the same street, and regularly under a certain balcony; let his horse curvet so senselessly that one dreaded an accident every moment.

From Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by Werner, E.

How proudly the slender lady sat, allowing her black horse to curvet!

From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

A low whinny and something like a suppressed curvet was Dick's reply, and it was followed by a sharp exclamation.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

"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 Betts, Lillian William

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 Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

Just as I was passing the smoking-room door, out curveted Edwin.

From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

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 Payn, James

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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 Cox, C. B.

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 Sue, Eugène

Her prancing progress paused there for a moment, and she waited with one knee highly elevated, like a statue of a curveting horse, before she finally decided to pass on.

From Miss Mapp by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

The stream rushed careering and curveting down the hill-side, bright as a diamond, and soon reached a meadow plain.

From Cross Purposes and The Shadows by MacDonald, George

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

He loved to look at the boy, in his English riding-boots and breeches, astride of black Diana, who pranced and curvetted up the unpaved road.

From The Story of a New York House by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)

At a signal from the governor, Captains Pra and Nototherboc disappeared and presently returned to the court-yard mounted on two gigantic bockhockids, on which they curvetted and swept around in gallant style.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard

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

High and dry, fires had been built and the flames were darting and curvetting among the trees.

From The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Then there came from astern a hot, puffy breeze, and the schooner stood out on a port tack, curvetting prettily as her sails were trimmed and filled.

From Isle o' Dreams by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)