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

The wary horsemen stand out in the open; some of them make their horses prance and curvet to show their mettle, and lay bets with one another.

From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

A low whinny and something like a suppressed curvet was Dick's reply, and it was followed by a sharp exclamation.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

The French called vessels of this size corvettes, from the Italian word corvettore, to leap or bound, from which we have derived the word curvet.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles