caracole

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The discomfiture of the procession was quite a delightful entertainment for him, and he made his little mule caracole about in the hope of an encore.

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

Then these two began to salaam one another, and mouth out fool phrases, and cavort and prance and caracole, until I thought them mad.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

The dignified and stern headmaster was actually seen to dandle infants and to caracole upon the hearthrug on all fours.

From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton