caracole

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of the mansions, however, squat ephemerally upon the soil, no cellar to them, and no staircase, the total fragile box ready to bounce and caracole should the wind drive hard enough.

From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen

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.

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