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 spirited animal began to curvet and rear, as if proud of his burthen.
From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío
Pannade, pa-nād′, n. the curvet of a horse.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
His heels turned the horse in a graceful curvet "I'm saying, Islay," he cried over his shoulder, "have a free cask or two at the Cross in the morning."
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
He was in a very pessimistic frame of mind when Jimmy curveted into the room, with his head in the clouds and his feet on air.
From The Gem Collector by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
And here he curveted a few steps to the side.
From The Loves of Ambrose by Margaret Vandercook
With this he vaulted upon Sfrenato, who curveted and whinnied with joy at recognising his master.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
In front of us sat our commandant, Count Reichenbach, reining in his splendid English roan, which snorted and curveted with impatience.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
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
To and fro, to and fro they swung, faster, slower, Dickie beating with his heels, the wooden horse curveting and prancing.
From Nine Little Goslings by Susan Coolidge
When she recovered self-possession enough to peep out, she saw that the young man's horse was curveting back and forth across the big road in a most alarming manner.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks
And then the wherefore of all this dashing horsemanship, this curveting, prancing, galloping revival of knightly tourney effects was apparent—Judith Rodney had opened post-office.
From Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning
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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Only half a dozen followed him; his horse fell almost immediately under a rifle ball; one of the braves picked up the chief and bore him away; the rest dispersed, prancing and curveting.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
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
The horses curvetted, and drove against one another; the men shouted and gazed about them irresolutely, seeking the unseen enemy and trying to control their steeds.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
Old Señor de Colis was mounted on a handsome bay that pranced and curvetted beneath him, to his most evident discomfort; but Melinza's seat was superb.
From Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine by W. B. Gilbert
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
The fourth pageant was a kind of "chase," full of shepherds and others preparing cloth, dancing, tumbling, and curvetting, being intended to represent confusion.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
And taking their places before a great express wagon, went prancing and curvetting their way from door to door, Mr. Fisk stopping wherever a beckoning hand appeared at a window.
From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
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
