curvet

How To Use curvet In A Sentence

• When her father saw her mounted and curvetting about the court, he gave her much wise advice, as to how she was to behave like the young man she appeared to be, and also how to behave as the girl she really was. The Violet Fairy Book
• 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. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
• The hint of proceeding put all into motion; the venerable attendants of the Emir set forward somewhat slowly, but Vathek, having ordered his little pages in private to goad on the dromedaries, loud fits of laughter broke forth from the cages, for the unwieldy curvetting of these poor beasts, and the ridiculous distress of their superannuated riders, afforded the ladies no small entertainment. The History of the Caliph Vathek
• We know their skimming, curvetting flight, the swept-back fighter-plane wings, the fine tail-streamers. Times, Sunday Times
• Protestants: Horse-coursers jades will bound, curvet and shew more tricks, then a horse well mettled for the rode or cart. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
• And to that end, while all the world was reading of the certain failure of the new flying machine, MacAndrew was soaring and curvetting with great amplitude and dignity over the Epsom and Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
• After a few graceful wheels and curvets, we take our ground. Roundabout Papers
• 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. Son of a Witch
• To see thee curvet, and mount like a dog in a blanket, The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
• The others laughed, one pulled hard on the reins, making his broad-shouldered mount snort and curvet. The Lioness