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
There are few birds to be seen, except an occasional hawk, who seems to have no other object than to curvet about and display his clipper-built wings for our admiration.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
The horses of his body-guard began to paw and curvet to free their feet as the loose reins tightened on their necks.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
The horse, indeed, starts with his heels in the air, and will curvet and gallop and perform as many tricks as a tumbler.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
She looked up, and with surprise lighting her dark-blue eyes, beheld a gentleman mounted on a fine black Arabian courser, that curveted gracefully and capriciously before the cottage gate.
From The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
When Wat Gordon mounted into the saddle with an easy spring his horse bent back its head and curveted, biting at his foot.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
A mist came before his eyes; the trees curveted and swam; and his visible world swung upside down and went out in a singing and spark-shot blackness.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
And at this the dog yelped again and curveted sheer across the room.
From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus
The bay horses curveted and pranced, the coachman sprang to his seat, a big red motor backed, snorted, honked, and whizzed past them.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
Let me read it for you, dear Tanty, the picture hangs a little high and those curveting letters are hard to decipher.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
"I like you better, Charley," said she, curveting her horse, and passaging him alternately from side to side.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Twelve thousand horsemen, decorated with the most gorgeous trappings of military show, and mounted on the fleetest Arabian chargers, were prancing and curveting in all directions.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
Our young hero presented his revolver, but they apparently knew the short range of the weapon, and came plunging, curveting onward.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
The stream rushed careering and curveting down the hill-side, bright as a diamond, and soon reached a meadow plain.
From Cross Purposes and The Shadows by George MacDonald
At Sundra Straits, he curvetted over the mountains and jungles of Sumbawa, Dutch island.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over Dayton, Ohio, last week curvetted three new little airplanes, undergoing rigorous U. S. Army Air Corps tests in its present search for an advanced type training plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty feet above Aslan and Digory he snorted, neighed, and curvetted.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
Regardless of the sneering words wafted to them as they skated past Ralph and his friends, Ernest and Ben, with glowing cheeks and tingling blood, wheeled and curvetted until they were well-nigh breathless.
From Miss Theodora A West End Story by Helen Leah Reed
The ship curvetted in space like a prancing steed.
From Runaway by William Ashman
Alfredo, made his pony caper and look hard to ride, curvetting, sidling, closer and closer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The horses can smell the tiger scent and begin neighing and curvetting, trying to get away from it.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
But after curvetting around three or four times, he realized what sort of a rider he had to deal with and quieted down.
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
It was a stirring scene of meeting, and chatting, and laughing, and rearing, and curvetting, and fresh air, and sunshine.
From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Bright barbed steeds curvetting tread Their trackless way with antic capers; And curtain clouds hang overhead, Festoon'd by rainbow-colour'd vapours.
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland by T. Crofton Crocker
