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Example sentences for "curvetting"

Lexicographically close words:
curve; curved; curves; curvet; curveting; curvilinear; curving; curyous; cuscus; cuse
  1. His targe and horse-trapping displayed a profusion of silver crosses and devices, and he looked a stately and martial warrior, curvetting at the head of his troop of well-appointed lancers.

  2. 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.

  3. In the first fresh days how mysterious these covered streets appear, these indoor thoroughfares, muffled with tan, where towering camels and shuffling donkeys and curvetting horses seem so astonishingly out of place.

  4. I looked and saw Webber at a considerable distance in front, curvetting and playing all species of antics.

  5. My confidence in my horsemanship suggested moral courage of a very different kind; and I felt that Charles O'Malley curvetting upon a thorough-bred, and the same man ambling upon a shelty, were two and very dissimilar individuals.

  6. Scarcely could he believe his eyes when he saw his old college-friend Ferdinand among the staff, in a quiet-looking uniform, with his left arm in a sling, curvetting close past him on a beautiful sorrel charger.

  7. Teresina sometimes dawns on my memory, curvetting with her lyre on her charger, like some incarnation of music; and, spite of myself, I write loftier and more serious strains when I think of this.

  8. In the midst of the black chaos were two lobsters curvetting opposite each other and looking as if they were done with red sealing-wax.

  9. We stopped; in a trice she was out of the carriage, had untied my horse, and was up in the saddle, prancing and curvetting around us.

  10. Teresina also arose before my imagination curvetting on her proud steed with the lute in her hands, like Art herself disguised in romance.

  11. He could not know that that pretty, clever hand, which so skilfully managed her curvetting cob, would one day take his in hers for better, and not for worse!

  12. The graceful and majestic mustang would also now and then sweep across the naked country, or come curvetting and capering in the vicinity of our little caravan, just as the humor prompted him.

  13. Large droves are very frequently seen upon the Prairies, sometimes of hundreds together, gambolling and curvetting within a short distance of the caravans.

  14. It would be wrong to laugh in general at such an event, for a loose horse in this country is like a wild beast, and tears people off their horses and worries them; but this one only went curvetting about, and when he took to chase old Mr. A.

  15. They go about curvetting and spearing, and dress themselves fancifully, and they are most courteous-mannered natives.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curvetting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.