curvet

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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

Lenore bowed low, and made her pony curvet gayly.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

His eyes shone with pleasure, and he allowed his horse to curvet freely.

From Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

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