caracole

He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crude might of the queen was transformed into refined power, restrained and directed by a system of sparkling levers; the pawns grew cleverer; the knights stepped forth with a Spanish caracole .

From Time Magazine Archive

When she found herself alone, she let her pony prance and caracole under a great pear-tree, and inwardly chafed against Anton.

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

We are to halt two days here, and before that is over, I hope you'll have made your last caracole in the riding-school of Nancy.'

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever

Peggy was waving her hand—her hat had flown off at the first caracole, and Rita had ridden over it several times—and shouting in jubilation.

From Three Margarets by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

The waiter prodded the table to try caracoles, or snails, eaten by pushing a toothpick into the shell and dragging out the body.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2011

But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus!" he shouted, waving his hand to Amyas, between his curvets and caracoles, "did my illustrious grandfather exhibit to the Paynim emperor the prowess of a Castilian cavalier!

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

Fialin had the arrogant air of a man who caracoles before a crime.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

He is drily humorous as he shows us some plumaged General peacocking on foot, or swelling with Napoleonic pride as he caracoles by on his horse.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

Above Beirut's Place des Canons last week R.A.F. planes roared and caracoled.

From Time Magazine Archive

In front of it, as the week went on, a thousand horses paraded, galloped, caracoled — black and grey, hunter and hackney, carriage-horse and teamster.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shadow’s mount caracoled away from it, and Shadow stroked its neck and told it not to be afraid.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Heart's palfrey caracoled gayly round,  Heart tra-li-raed merrily; But Brain sat still, with never a sound —  Full cynical-calm was he.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

It was illuminated by order of the conquerors, and, whether bongrè or malgrè, it looked showy; we had gazers in abundance, as the dashing staff caracoled their way through the streets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

Of many existing causes for alarm, one minor one has been Author Louis Golding's caracoling cleverness, which has frightened away more than a few cautious readers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prancing, caracoling or stiffly reined in, they constitute a lexicon of equine movement that Western art could hardly rival for another 1400 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I can't forget the pretty picture of her caracoling along on horseback, singing Spanish songs."

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Behold there the horse of the Rajput—foaming, panting, caracoling, but always fettered with his head so majestic upon his bosom so amply filled with a generous heart.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

If it be a building speculation, the architecture is but the background of a brilliant "mall," where splendid equipages and caracoling riders figure, with gay parasols and sleek poodles intermixed.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever