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Caracoled

Caracole \Car"a*cole\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caracoled.] [Cf. F. caracoler.] (Man.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.

Prince John caracoled within the lists.
--Sir W. Scott.

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caracoled

vb. (en-past of: caracole)

Usage examples of "caracoled".

The others instantly caracoled into a frenzy, pulling at their pickets.

Lita enjoyed that race as heartily as she had done several others of late, and caracoled about as if anxious to make up for her lack of skill by speed and obedience.

The noble steed which he reined bounded and caracoled, and displayed his spirit and agility in a manner which might have troubled a less admirable horseman than the Marquis, who gracefully ruled him with the one hand, while the other displayed the baton, whose predominancy over the ranks which he led seemed equally absolute.

Lightly armed, richly dressed, and gay as a bridegroom on the eve of his nuptials, Richard caracoled along by the side of Queen Berengaria's litter, pointing out to her the various scenes through which they passed, and cheering with tale and song the bosom of the inhospitable wilderness.

Shadow's mount caracoled away from it, and Shadow stroked its neck and told it not to be afraid.

It pawed the ground and caracoled but stayed in one spot, some one hundred meters and more downrange, in what looked to be a shaft of sunlight.

Excited by the proximity of other eldritch steeds, the nygel caracoled, curvetted.

Brooding, he looked straight ahead and out the doorway to where black-skinned white-haired boys and white-skinned blackhaired girls skipped and caracoled in the tawny sunlight.