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

This plan has its advantages; it allows, for instance, the writer's pen to curvet as well as the artist's pencil.

From Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" by Foote, G. W. (George William)

With a toss of her mane, that is glossy as jet, With a dance and a prance, and a frolic curvet, She is off! she is stepping superbly away!

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

He did not pant or curvet or look showy.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson