How To Use Curvet In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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We know their skimming, curvetting flight, the swept-back fighter-plane wings, the fine tail-streamers.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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After a few graceful wheels and curvets, we take our ground.
Roundabout Papers
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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
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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
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The others laughed, one pulled hard on the reins, making his broad-shouldered mount snort and curvet.
The Lioness
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Down in the valley Amalric had stiffened in his saddle when he saw that wild horseman curvetting and caracoling on the slopes while he brandished that blood-stained serpent-banner.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan
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At least I imagined so this morning, with our craft "upon a wind," whilst standing in the weather gangway, and watching her plunge and curvet, held up to her course by the helm, as a steed by a curb, obeying its rider; but I did not think the motion as agreeable as that derived from equestrian exercise.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
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It comes ‘in curvets and caprioles, with the flashing of glutted fish-runs’, and so on for a page of equally shimmery and restive fine-tuning.
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The tall horses of the cavalry seemed hard and savage as their riders; they made no curvets or gambades.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
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The girls came out of the cottage doors to look at him, as he made the fiery little beast curvet and prance along the road; and he was evidently not insensible to the looks of admiration of these young ladies, as they muffled up their faces in their blue rebozos and looked at him through the narrow opening.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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At one point Shannon moves to the base of our scarp and starts prancing around with her hands curled down, performing curvets with one leg.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II
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Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets unseasonably.
As You Like It
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Here it is used for "croupade," "a high curvet in which the hind legs are brought up under the belly of the horse" (_N.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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At one point Shannon moves to the base of our scarp and starts prancing around with her hands curled down, performing curvets with one leg.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II
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Theogine's horse in Heliodorus [4846] curvet, prance, and go so proudly, exultans alacriter et superbiens, &c., but that such as mine author supposeth, he was in love with his master? dixisses ipsum equum pulchrum intelligere pulchram domini fomam?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The messenger fared forth and presently returned and reported, “I saw an army like the dashing sea with its clashing surge: and their horses curvetting till earth trembleth with the tramp; and I know no more of them.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Legrand, letting the negro go, and executing a series of curvets and caracols, much to the astonishment of his valet, who, arising from his knees, looked, mutely, from his master to myself, and then from myself to his master.
The Gold-Bug
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And having got thus far in my thoughts, I paused, watching the swallows; for they seemed to me the symbol, in their swift, sure curvetting, all daring and balance and surprise, of the delicate poise and motion of Art, that visits no two men alike, in a world where no two things of all the things there be, are quite the same.
The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
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And the curvets, caprioles, croupades, done by the horsemen of the Cadre Noir, in the saddle or working the horse in hand, have hardly changed since the carousels performed to music by Lully before the Sun King.
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There were seen so many cavaliers prancing and curvetting before the windows of their mistresses, that a stranger would have imagined the whole nation to have been nothing less than a race of knight – errants.
Don Quixote
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Cry ‘holla’ to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets unseasonably.
As You Like It
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Their steeds, caparisoned with silk, lacquered leather and gold buckles, caracoled and curvetted as their riders put them through their paces.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
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It comes ‘in curvets and caprioles, with the flashing of glutted fish-runs’, and so on for a page of equally shimmery and restive fine-tuning.
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I can see my husband riding the margins of the field, talking to his land steward, and I kick Arthur into a rolling canter and come up to him in a rush that makes his own horse sidle and curvet in the mud.
The Red Queen
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Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but wheeling again with all their followers, they began curvetting round Don Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, "These gentlemen have plainly recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and even that newly printed one by the Aragonese.
Don Quixote
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English ideas the _pollo_ is more objectionable there than elsewhere, since his idea of riding is to show off the antics of a horse specially taught and made to prance about and curvet while he sits it, his legs sticking out in the position of the Colossus of Rhodes, his heels, armed with spurs, threatening catastrophe to the other riders.
Spanish Life in Town and Country
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Cornet Richard Grahame descended the hill, bearing in his hand the extempore flag of truce, and making his managed horse keep time by bounds and curvets to the tune which he whistled.
Old Mortality
