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

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

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

Then these two began to salaam one another, and mouth out fool phrases, and cavort and prance and caracole, until I thought them mad.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)