Apparently he decided to "somersault" off the bed in the middle of the night and ended up with a bloody nose. From Wordnik.com. [It's all sunshine and roses around these parts] Reference
Except he just did some kind of somersault which looked much more agile than anything anyone would have expected of him. From Wordnik.com. [Voice of the Fans: What's Your Most Memorable Convention Experience?] Reference
The Hindoo Anarchist pulled a galloping somersault. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
I have never seen a back somersault upon a high wire. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
He was afraid she was going to turn a back somersault. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
He trips over his rifle, turns a somersault and salutes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
The engine of the express had turned a complete somersault. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
My stomach does one last somersault, and I flop onto the sled. From Wordnik.com. [My Skeleton Saga] Reference
"You made him turn a somersault, didn't you?" said Nan, as she and. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
Here he turned a perfect somersault, if words could perform the feat. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
The Nipe arced backward in a half somersault and landed flat on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
They came out even in the handstand, somersault, and skin-the-cat contest. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
His heart turned a somersault as he thought that this was the hour at which. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The Clown shook hands, then turned a somersault and grinned from ear to ear. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
That was a dangerous one where she kind of did a somersault over his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Week 7: Can it Be, a Week Without Injuries?] Reference
He could "play dead," and "say his prayers," besides turning a back somersault. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
"Better wait a year or two, Top," said Simmons, deliberately turning a somersault. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
He played soldier, said his prayers, stood on his hind legs, and turned a somersault. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
Then it turned a somersault, beating the sea to waves like the boiling of a cauldron. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Her daughter, Pia, rolls along the floor, attempting her first somersault, flailing along. From Wordnik.com. [Ingrid Bergman Answers the Call] Reference
Kulhantia sept means somersault, and these turn a somersault before worshipping their gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
They jostle and somersault, a roil& boil that enacts the confinement of the space they're in. From Wordnik.com. [Word Balloon] Reference
Her horse buckled, and Krone catapulted into a twisted somersault, landing on her right ankle. From Wordnik.com. [Back In The Saddle Again] Reference
I began as a performer, and I can still do a double somersault over fifteen elephants in a row. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
As he fell he described a partial somersault, landing on hands and knees half-way down the slope. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
But this time the rope broke, the Whale turned a somersault, and the Elephant fell over backwards. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
Then, taking the knife in the palm of his left hand, he made it turn another somersault in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
At the last half of the somersault, she goes into a pike, then extends her body for a headfirst entry. From Wordnik.com. [Good As Gold] Reference
First, Marmaduke put the knife in the palm of his right hand and made that knife turn a somersault in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
"Well, he can turn a somersault, and he's on his head for a second while he's doing that," explained Freddie, proudly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
Phelps "blew up" with a muffled roar as he turned half a somersault in the air and landed headfirst in a huge snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
From that standing posture he executed in the twinkling of an eye a swift back somersault, at least twenty feet from the ice!. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Unfolding his Saturday morning newspapers, Truman was incensed to read about his administration's "badly bungled" somersault on partition. From Wordnik.com. [A Case of Courage] Reference
When a boy can turn a somersault from the end of the board, and come down feet foremost in a clean-cut way, he may be said to be an expert. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
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