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
The troopers ride round and caracole their horses.
From The Eureka Stockade by Carboni, Raffaello
Ultimately some horsemen in the escort of Ariovistus began to caracole towards the Romans, and to hurl at them stones and darts.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
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.
