Till now, each Athenian had saluted Hipparchos in his seat of honor; two had even made their horses caracole. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
It was his lyric about the fair young horseman who is begged not to caracole too high, because he is carrying someone's heart and one more leap might break it. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
He pushed then hither and thither -- made his knights slide along with the episcopal propriety of bishops, and made his bishops caracole across the squares with the unseemly elasticity of knights. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
The other day, while a wedding party was just about to leave St. George's, Hanover Square, Mr. BENNETT, who happened to be passing by, took a flying caracole clean over the Rolls-Royce which contained the happy pair. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21] Reference
Small boys waved their hands to us, the water-carrier carrying his tight goat-skin from the wells set his cups a-tinkling, as though by way of a God-speed, and then M'Barak touched his horse with the spur to induce the bravery of a caracole, and led us away from Djedida. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
They examined the new horse and made him caracole about the yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Cossacks] Reference
When she found herself alone, she let her pony prance and caracole under. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
The horse of one of these cavaliers made a caracole which brought it nearly upon Alain as he was about to cross. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
The dignified and stern headmaster was actually seen to dandle infants and to caracole upon the hearthrug on all fours. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Arnold] Reference
Boulogne; and, mounting with much difficulty a rampant horse, he would caracole about the Place St. Louis, to the great delight of the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag] Reference
Peggy was waving her hand -- her hat had flown off at the first caracole, and Rita had ridden over it several times -- and shouting in jubilation. From Wordnik.com. [Three Margarets] Reference
Sunshine revisited the countenance of Master Jeremy Sparrow; he swung his great body into the saddle, gathered up the reins, and made the mare to caracole across the path for very joy. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
Most of the mansions, however, squat ephemerally upon the soil, no cellar to them, and no staircase, the total fragile box ready to bounce and caracole should the wind drive hard enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories] Reference
Jim, our favourite attendant, a reckless black boy of sixteen, rode a horse which we were not allowed to use, and triumphed not a little in the caracole of his steed, while our mule paced quietly along. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Southern matron,] Reference
In his joyous caracole round the lists, the attention of the Prince was called by the commotion, not yet subsided, which had attended the ambitious movement of Isaac towards the higher places of the assembly. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
To thus deprive him of preliminary wrangle and objurgation was to send an armoured knight full tilt against a crashing lance without permitting him first to caracole around the list to the flourish of trumpets. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
Their progress down the street was as picturesque as Monsieur Pirenne could make it; for whatever horse he might be on, he succeeded in making it caracole and curvet, saying at intervals, with a careless smile. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara in Brittany] Reference
Ojeda, who was a perfect horseman, made the horse leap, curvet and caracole, taking a wider circuit each time, until making a long sweep through the forest the two disappeared from the view of the Carib army altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Days of the Discoverers] Reference
The Intendant, quick-witted as herself, would accept the challenge, talk with her and caracole on the topic which she had caparisoned so gaily for him, and amid compliments and pleasantries, ride away from the point, she knew not whither!. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
He made his horse caracole at every level space, till Berenger reminded him that they might have far to ride that night, and even then he was constantly breaking into attempts at shouting and whistling as often repressed, and springing up in his stirrups to look over the high hedges. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
Indeed, the figure of Major Dalgetty alone, sheathed in impenetrable armour, and making his horse caracole and bound, so as to give weight to every blow which he struck, would have been a novelty in itself sufficient to terrify those who had never seen anything more nearly resembling such. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
If it is small, it is carried on the shoulder of the father or the eldest son; if it is a goodly size, those two carry it together; or a young husband and wife may bear it between them -- as we actually saw a thick branch of our almond borne away that afternoon -- while the children caracole around them or lend little helping hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals] 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
“caracole.”. From Wordnik.com. [On Horsemanship] Reference
"caracole," in token of reverence. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Though the winged-horse must caracole free. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)] Reference
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