caracole
Example Sentences
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Bryant Park around the corner doesn’t mind the butterfly caracoling off the side of three o’clock, the hour in the city visiting friends.
From New York Times
Shadow’s mount caracoled away from it, and Shadow stroked its neck and told it not to be afraid.
From Literature
As he caracoled up and down before the house, with the sun shining on his fair head, he looked to my eyes as beautiful as Apollo.
From Project Gutenberg
The Captain of Vlaye, stooping his sinewy figure to his companion, well became a horse that moved as he moved, and caracoled because he allowed it.
From Project Gutenberg
The horses of our equestrians, in the pride of their beautiful breed and their bright, shining backs, caracoled incessantly, which ostentatious display of their muscular power in the morning light raised clouds of dust.
From Project Gutenberg
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