It is very agile; and, secluding itself among the most inaccessible mountain-crags, delights in capering upon the very verge of the most frightful precipices, and skipping from rock to rock across yawning chasms hundreds of feet in depth.
A second shock and yet another struggle followed, and both beasts were eventually led off snorting and capering in uncouth fashion to express their disgust at not being allowed to go on.
You can't find out the jokes of a horse, nor the ailments of a baby" hints that spirited horses have more to set them capering and kicking than the human knows of.
Constance capering off before the long pier-glass,--"I am afraid I am not captivating!
Constance jumping up and capering round the table to kiss her, "you are too delicious for anything; and in future I will be blind to your colours; which is a piece of self-denial I am sure nobody else will practise.
Phronsie, quite relieved; and she commenced her caperingagain in extreme enjoyment.
Even the "genteel" resident families allow themselves to be infected with the general madness, and wind up the day's capering consistently enough by a night's capering at a grand ball.
It may be mere "exuberant capering round a discovered truth," to borrow Mr. Chesterton's phrase.
Fi donc, le vilain monstre, with his shrieks, and his capering crooked legs!
Seventy-four canoes came out to welcome the strangers and broke the Sabbath by crowding about the decks, “dancing and capering like frantic persons.
And I've heard folk say they've known those that have seen them capering round the grey rocks on the moor at midnight: but this is wonderful!
That the commander, however, took a handkerchief and attempted to show his guest the mysteries of the sembi cuacua, capering in an agile but indecorous manner about the apartment, has been denied.
Captain Boltrope, rubbing his hands and absolutely capering about the deck with rage.
And he again fell to capering and dancing, but not as gayly as before, for his heart was troubled.
The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
As he neared them a dog came dashing out, capering about in the fluffy drifts.
It did not appear to be afraid of Skyrocket, who was capering around on the ground under the tree.
So had Jaska, and as Sarka and Jaska, with the capering Gnomes still about them, were led away to a fate at which they could only guess, Sarka wondered at Jaska's silence and at the strange lack of expression on her face.
Sarka stared at the Gnomes, now in retreat, capering as they had first capered when the two had fallen into their hands, toward the door by which all had entered.
Capering creatures, who behaved witlessly, yet were far from witless.
Instantly he detected a surprising eagerness in the renewed clucking of tongues, while the Gnomes raced ahead, behind, all about the two, capering like pet animals, showing these strangers the way into the tunnel.
Mahdi looked a truly formidable brute, capering there in the shadow of the gums, and his cries, stifled and made animal-like by the mask, added to the qualms of the Party.
She opened her eyes widely, and although consciousness had now returned, and she knew that the great-coat had been left in the other room, still she saw it plainly dancing and capering like a monkey.
A lad in khaki came capering out of the station, waving his hands to the throng and shouting something that sounded like a music-hall jest.
Puck softly, capering on the grass-plot as the lady disappeared.
But these capering maniacs, disowned alike by the old world and the new, were men who had seen a great truth unknown alike to the new world and the old.
The nonsense of these men was satiric--that is to say, symbolic; it was a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.
The double line of capering vahines broke for the unlighted corners and in a trice had hidden their graceful flower-wreathed limbs under flowing holakaus.
The horses had trotted out to safety, and Murphy was capering gleefully about.
Murphy was capering about the room, whooping and rubbing his eyes.
Joel stopped hiscapering at once, this new idea thrusting out the old one.
Leon pointed at the assistant scoutmaster's black eyes dancing in the firelight, at the tassel of his red cap capering in the breeze.
