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 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 Strang, Herbert

From time to time he made his beast curvet, and laughed at himself inwardly for doing it.

From Black Amazon of Mars by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

His heels turned the horse in a graceful curvet "I'm saying, Islay," he cried over his shoulder, "have a free cask or two at the Cross in the morning."

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil