curvet

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Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he was mounted and had waved them a last adieu, he made his horse curvet as though loath to start, and so brought up close to the rail of the opposite balcony.

From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont

No sooner does the mare hear those words than she begins to dance and curvet, showing in every possible way her anxiety to start and her sense of the importance of her duties.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles

Well, he rode no less than three times up and down the same street, and regularly under a certain balcony; let his horse curvet so senselessly that one dreaded an accident every moment.

From Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by Werner, E.