p-r-r-r-r-r-r

Updated: June 20, 2025

With a resounding "P-r-r-r-r-r-r!" he reined up before Herr von Zabelthau, and seemed to be going to dismount. But he suddenly slipped under the horse's belly as quick as lightning, and having got to the other side of him, threw himself three times in succession some twelve ells up in the air, turning six somersaults in every ell, and then alighted on his head in the saddle.

E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann - The Serapion Brethren.: Vol. II