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Updated: September 1, 2025
He seemed not a little satisfied with himself; he flourished his naked sword over his head; brandished his spear; made his horse curvet and bound, and gallop alternately; and his dress being extremely grotesque, besides being old and torn, gave him an appearance not unlike that of a bundle of rags flying through the air.
When the rest of the party had taken their seats in the carriage he examined the saddle-girth; then, putting his foot in the stirrup, he sprang to the saddle. The animal began to curvet and nearly threw his rider. Hector, not altogether at his ease, tried to soothe him: "Come, come, good horse, gently now!"
My father well, well, let them be." His heels turned the horse in a graceful curvet "I'm saying, Islay," he cried over his shoulder, "have a free cask or two at the Cross in the morning." But it was in the Paymaster's house that the fullest stress, the most nervous restlessness of anticipation were apparent.
One bounds into the air with a comic curvet, and comes down with a thud; the others copy him, and there is a wild maze of coiling bodies and gleaming white tails. But let the treacherous wind carry the scent of you down on the little rascals and you will see a change.
I would I had the wit to describe that tournament beneath the sea; the stab, thrust, curvet, plunge the conquest and capture of the unknown combatant. A special chance preserves the mediaeval character of the contest, saving it from the sulphurous associations of modern warfare that might be suggested by the name of devil-fish.
It was on the lawn near the yew-hedge, and I was standing by my grandmother, while Theobald on the pony was on the gravel-sweep. I knew that he made the pony curvet because I liked it; and presently my grandmother discovered that and took me away. "Sure, the fine days will come back," the old woman assented hopefully, "and there's the bonny boy'll bring them.
Then he sets upon one knee the chubby little Dieterli and on the other the black eyed Veronica, and they ride there as long as they please, no matter how high the horse has to curvet and prance. And whatever else they want him to do for them, he is ready to do, whatever it may be.
The gay colours of the riders flicker confusedly in a jumble. One horse careers madly along for half the distance, is with difficulty pulled up, and is then walked slowly back. The others left at the post fret, and fidget, and curvet about. At length they are again in line. Down goes the white flag! 'Good start! shouts an excited planter. Down goes the red flag.
"To hell, sometimes," he answered, and his eyes were full of mist, "but tonight I shall go to bed for a change." Tamara was nonplussed. She felt intensely commonplace. She was even a little cross with herself. Why had she asked a question? The Arab horse now took it into his head to curvet and bound in the air for no apparent reason, but the young man did not stir an inch he laughed.
One end was tied round the animal's lower jaw, and the other, after being brought over the neck to the rider's hand, was allowed to drag on the ground some fifteen feet behind. It requires care, particularly by those in the rear, not to tread on the thongs trailing behind. By so doing, the mouth of the horse receives a jerk which seldom fails to make it rear and curvet from side to side.
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