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

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 Evariste Regis Huc

To thus deprive him of preliminary wrangle and objurgation was to send an armoured knight full tilt against a crashing lance without permitting him first to caracole around the list to the flourish of trumpets.

From Whirligigs by O. Henry

Thus speaking, he dashed his spurs into his horse's sides, and, checking him at the same time, compelled him to execute a lofty caracole.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

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.

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The little girl caracoles sedately, clad in a riding habit, and armed with a crop.

From Light by Fitzwater Wray

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

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

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.

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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

A burst of deafening applause came from the multitude as the marshal rode through the gateway of Ely House, and caracoled over the Holborn way on the finest charger that the king's stables could furnish.

From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

They were all glittering with gold and polished steel, and their horses bounded and caracoled as if impatient for a charge.'

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever

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

Tram-cars passed constantly across the street in front of his caracoling horse, dividing a route for themselves in the wild ocean of traffic as Moses cut into the Red Sea.

From The Regent by Arnold Bennett

You see the one who looks about him so joyfully, and, holding his chestnut horse well in hand, comes caracoling up so bravely?

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

In front of his berlin ride a number of attendants, caracoling in all directions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various