curvet

Example Sentences

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Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

From time to time he made his beast curvet, and laughed at himself inwardly for doing it.

From Black Amazon of Mars by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

The wary horsemen stand out in the open; some of them make their horses prance and curvet to show their mettle, and lay bets with one another.

From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

The horses of his body-guard began to paw and curvet to free their feet as the loose reins tightened on their necks.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson