curvet

There were two cross-roads before they reached the Lymington Ford, and at each of then Sir Nigel pulled up his horse, and waited with many a curvet and gambade, craning his neck this way and that to see if fortune would send him a venture.

When a horse that is "foot free" is tied to one thus secured, the latter forms, as it were, a pivot, round which the other runs and curvets, in case of alarm.

de Beaufort, mounted on a magnificent white genet , which responded by graceful curvets to the applause of the women of the city.

Already, while it was early, the benches were beginning to fill with people of quality, who kept constantly arriving in little carts or upon palfreys that curveted gaily to the merry tinkle of silver bells at bridle reins.

"Hold my stirrup, Bazin," cried Aramis; and Aramis sprang into the saddle with his usual grace and agility, but after a few vaults and curvets of the noble animal his rider felt his pains come on so insupportably that he turned pale and became unsteady in his seat.

hurrah!" vociferated 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.

Sarko, recalls that since the Ministry of Public Works dropped 14 pieces of fabricated curvet to the bridge area, authorities from the ministry had never returned to start the project.

Agarwal, "Fingerprint liveness detection using curvet energy and co-occurrence signatures," in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, Modern Techniques and Applications, CGIV, pp.