caracole
Example Sentences
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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
The dignified and stern headmaster was actually seen to dandle infants and to caracole upon the hearthrug on all fours.
From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton
"Pretty figures we shall cut on ponies while Aramis and Porthos caracole on their steeds."
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
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
