caracole

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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

The discomfiture of the procession was quite a delightful entertainment for him, and he made his little mule caracole about in the hope of an encore.

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

We are to halt two days here, and before that is over, I hope you'll have made your last caracole in the riding-school of Nancy.'

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

Though the winged-horse must caracole free— With the pretty, when "spurning the plain," Should the team-work fall wholly on me While he soars with Dolores and Jane?

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney