caracole

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

We were now two against three--the White-mantle was saved--with a wonderful inimitable, caracole he placed his horse by my side.

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Spiegfried Kohn

The troopers ride round and caracole their horses.

From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni

He went about it as steadily and deliberately as the horses go to plough; no attempt to caracole in the furrow, ready to stand still as long as you like.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

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

The market-lady caracoles around, and leads Browne to infer that his conduct is not approved, from her festooning that gentleman's eyes with heavy lines of crape.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

Still, whatever her caracoles or escapades, they caused Florimel nothing but amusement, for her confidence in Malcolm -- that he could do whatever he believed he could -- was unbounded.

From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald

Angel and I followed closely with occasional caracoles, and cavortings, and scornful blowings through the nostrils.

From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley

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

The horses of our equestrians, in the pride of their beautiful breed and their bright, shining backs, caracoled incessantly, which ostentatious display of their muscular power in the morning light raised clouds of dust.

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s

At the head of it rode Fanfaronade himself upon a white horse, which pranced and caracoled to the sound of the trumpets.

From The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

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

As soon as she remarks that a man has a hobby-horse, she makes him ride it, puts it through all its paces, caracoling, leaping, haute école.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

Came caracoling up the winding steep of Canobia a troop of horsemen, showily attired, and riding steeds that danced in the sunny air.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Liszt's grand principle is, to leave you your freedom, and when you play to him, you feel like a Pegasus caracoling about in the air.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay