caracole
Example Sentences
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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
Sunshine revisited the countenance of Master Jeremy Sparrow; he swung his great body into the saddle, gathered up the reins, and made the mare to caracole across the path for very joy.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
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.)
You may for instance give me some pledge or sign that if I do figure—prance and caracole and sufficiently kick up the dust—your eye won't suffer itself to be distracted from me.
From The Awkward Age by James, Henry
