The little rake made a pirouette and clapped his hands, crying: "The deuce!
Then I ran forward, making a pirouette as I ran, and I executed a very neat entrechat as I landed on the other side.
When the turn is so short and the union so close that the inner hind leg of the horse remains on one spot, we have the pirouette wheel,--a very important movement for the mounted soldier and a valuable one for many reasons to every horseman.
When La Normande at last turned the corner of the Rue Pirouette the excitement was so great that the women held their breath.
Why, when one passes along the Rue Pirouette in the evening one can hear them screaming out in the most dreadful way.
The Rue Pirouette did not accord with her ideas of cleanliness, her craving for fresh air, light, and healthy life.
The sun was obliquely enfilading the Rue Rambuteau, lighting up the fronts of the houses, in the midst of which the Rue Pirouette formed a dark gap.
It stood very near the corner of the Rue Pirouette and provided quite a feast for the eyes.
She reached the corner of the Rue Pirouette just as the commissary of police was re-entering the side passage of the Quenu-Gradelles' house.
She was an acquaintance of the family, and still lived in the house in the Rue Pirouette where she had resided for the last forty years, probably on a small private income; but of that she never spoke.
Josie permitted herself another grin and a gay pirouettein the lower hall.
In the pantry she permitted herself the luxury of a grin and after she slid the broiled pompano from the grill to the fish plates she let off more steam by a pirouette that a premiere danseuse might have envied.
But only archangels would be worthy to pirouette on a safety pin, which is indeed mightier than the sword.
An amusing conventionality of gender in pirouettes makes it man’s prerogative to do the pirouette en l’air--i.
A pirouette à la seconde is so called by reason of the active foot’s continuance in raised second position.
As the pirouette sur le cou-de-pied has its virtue of sparkle, its cousin the renversé is endowed with a species of bewildering, bacchanalian ecstasy.
It's the only way," I told her, making Paddy pirouette by pressing a heel against his short-ribs.
A most ludicrous grimace passed over his face as he saw the position and he cut a silent pirouette in the air, behind her.
Mr. Van Arsdel, following with an amused eye, a pirouette Eva executed at the conclusion of her speech, "you young folks are venturesome.
The latter dropped his lance and almost fell off, while the former, getting on its hind-legs, executed a pirouette which brought its tail to the rear and sent it charging wildly back upon its friends.
He passed on without one word; not a curve of the feeble flight; not a divergent pirouette of the orange-tipped pinions.
Then, thrusting her under lip out beyond the upper, she made a little pout, which appeared to be familiar to her, executed a pirouette on her heel, and set about collecting in her tambourine the gifts of the multitude.
She did the pirouette to admiration--whirling round upon her apex.
One of the "partners" had now gone so far as to pirouette on the floor with nothing but his shirt on.
In the pirouette ordinaire of the French manege the horse turns upon one of his hind-legs, walking on the other three around it, just as in the pirouette renversee of Lesson XI.
TO MOVE THE CROUP WITH HEEL AND WHIP (Pirouette renversee) 52 XII.
If a bubble of air chance to be enclosed in the film, round it the bacteria will pirouette and wabble until its oxygen has been absorbed, after which all their motions cease.
They dart hither and thither like a rain of minute projectiles; they pirouette and spin so quickly round, that the retention of the retinal impression transforms the little living rod into a twirling wheel.
Nor because a horse can perform the reversed pirouette with perfect exactness will a School-rider stop in the middle of a park road and parade the accomplishment.
As already said, the circular movement described (termed a pirouette about the hind, and a reversed pirouette about the fore feet) should be made on one absolutely unmoved fore or hind foot as pivot.
This pirouette is really a "low pirouette," the pirouette proper being a movement by the horse poised on his hind legs alone, describing the circle with fore legs in the air, which is a vastly finer performance.
