caracole

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

They examined the new horse and made him caracole about the yard.

From The Cossacks by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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 Jefferies, Richard

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 Henry, O.