prances

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They scarcely spoke as, hand in hand, they sat drinking in the scene whilst the old gray, for they wished no high-stepping prancers for this ride, jogged on the even tenor of his way.

From What Answer? by Dickinson, Anna E.

Pray, what has Hampton done that you should trounce ill-    naturedly its prancers and its sport?

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John

Arming in haste his gallant city lancers, The mayor, to learn if true the news might be, A league or two out issued with his prancers.

From Ballads by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Ismail threw his arms round the man and patted him, calling him "mighty dancer," "son of the wind," "prince of prancers," "prince of swordsmen," "war-horse," and a dozen more endearing epithets.

From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot

Then bear up bravely with your Brute my lads, Higgen hath prig'd the prancers in his dayes, And sold good penny-worths; we will have a course, The Spirit of Bottom, is grown bottomless.

From Beggars Bush From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis