capreol

Example Sentences

• "Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes"
• "Run through the field with frisks and kicks, In various capreols and tricks, Some ease poor thing, alass, to find;"
• "A little Wall lay sculking about this Territory of the Dead, which we suppos'd was plac'd there as a Bulwark to their Ashes, but it prov'd but a feeble Fence against the Intrusion of the Lambs, who made frequent Capreols into this adjacent Dormitory."
• "Ye know the capers our friends cut, their transnatural leaps exceed the capreols at Sadler's, or those of Del Phobo, or the dance of Merlin's giants: fools!"
• "Noblissimo's First Gentleman remarks 'Your Lordship rid to day beyond Perseus on his Pegasus' and Noblissimo, modestly deferring, 'No Monsieur, he went (if Poets speak truth) in higher Capreols than ever I shall make my Horse go'."
• "the wild boare and sow, red and fallow deere, roebuck, and capreol, hare, conie, and squirrels, & c. of which, see more in their proper places."