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

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

"See that creature begin to curvet and roll her eyes!" says Mrs. Gunning.

From A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

By so doing, the mouth of the horse receives a jerk which seldom fails to make it rear and curvet from side to side.

From The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America by Friston, D. H.