To see thee curvet, and mount like a dog in a blanket. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
Protestants: Horse-coursers jades will bound, curvet and shew more tricks, then a horse well mettled for the rode or cart. From Wordnik.com. [A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich] Reference
The pad began to curvet as the post horses rattled behind, and the Parson had only an indistinct vision of a human face supplanting these human legs. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
But gaining in speed; and gaining on him, slicing toward him in a wide curvet like hounds let loose on the side of a meadow, and he the fox already moving broadly down its middle. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
To force your horse to curvet, pirouette, dance on his haunches. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
One bounds into the air with a comic curvet, and comes down with. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference
Answers the heel with a curvet, and arches his neck to be fondled. From Wordnik.com. [Andromeda and Other Poems] Reference
His eyes shone with pleasure, and he allowed his horse to curvet freely. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond] Reference
"See that creature begin to curvet and roll her eyes!" says Mrs. Gunning. From Wordnik.com. [A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899] Reference
Next they began to neigh, to curvet, to scamper on all sides over the plain. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference
Ah! here comes one of those black monsters to make the pair curvet a little. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Gray] Reference
Shall I champ upon the bit, and prance, and curvet, and shew off to advantage?. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
Italian word corvettore, to leap or bound, from which we have derived the word curvet. From Wordnik.com. [How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900] Reference
Waler plunge and curvet across the road as I tickled it with the loop of my riding-whip. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Tales] Reference
They could see him shaking hands, then doing a curvet or so to show off his newly borrowed mount. From Wordnik.com. [The Covered Wagon] Reference
In Chester Terrace the wind caught Nigel broadside-on, causing him to prance and curvet like a charger. From Wordnik.com. [Death in Ecstasy]
Cares fly with the first curvet, and the very sight of a spur is enough to prevent one committing suicide. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
Two may ride; but only all curvet and prance, -- impeded by stormbell and your Village illuminating itself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
By so doing, the mouth of the horse receives a jerk which seldom fails to make it rear and curvet from side to side. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America] Reference
Wain seized the reins, and under his skillful touch the pretty mare began to prance and curvet with restrained impatience. From Wordnik.com. [The House Behind the Cedars] Reference
To display his skill before the ladies, he set spurs to his horse, making it bound and curvet "as valiantly as any man could do.". From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09] Reference
A studied curvet -- for still there was the play-actor in him to some degree. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
"gallopping" (with two p's) at large, "prancing and curvetting," that is, making his steed curvet. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
Making a roan horse caper and curvet. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
Which should sustain the bound and high curvet. From Wordnik.com. [All’s Well That Ends Well] Reference
With curvet and with caracole!. From Wordnik.com. [Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings] Reference
Made 'em curvet like Spanish jenets. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
A Blanket to curvet thee in the Air. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast] Reference
The stately curvet, and the pacing stride. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
A colt of mettle will curvet and shew his paces. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
They curvet and caper to be forward unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
Lenore bowed low, and made her pony curvet gayly. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
But curvet and bound. From Wordnik.com. [A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq.] Reference
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