While the Captain was giving this little lecture about the crabs and their congeners, Rover was prancing around and barking for some one to pitch in a stick or something for him to fetch out of the sea.
It resisted every effort she made until a strong jerk of the rope and a sudden lash brought it in prancing smartly.
Meco, prancing forward on his horse, bared his white glistening teeth, joking and kicking up like a clown.
I make exhibition enough of myself on the stage without prancing up and down with one of those things tied to my Fluffy Ruffles.
I comeprancing into town fresh from doing one-night stands through the uncultured West.
Outside the city peaceful herdsmen were pasturing their cattle under the shade of the trees, when they were startled by the appearance of the Egyptian monarch, mounted on his war-chariot drawn by two prancing steeds.
The slain enemy strew the ground, as he advances over them with his prancing steeds and in his rattling war-car, plying them moreover with his arrows as they vainly seek to escape.
This wonderfully versatile metre admits of keeping the right medium between the dignified, almost prancing hexameter, and the shorter metres of the lyrics.
Quick the wizard, Kullerwoinen, Struck his fiery, prancing racer, With the birch-whip of his father.
On these occasions Nance became so restless that she could scarcely keep her prancing feet on the floor.
Down the long hall swung the gay procession, while the floor vibrated to the rhythm of the prancing feet.
If by any chance a wistful urchin arrived in his rags alone, Mr. Demry promptly evolved a cocked hat from a newspaper, and a sword from a box top, and transformed him into a prancing knight.
With a certain dogged commonsense, she stayed at her post, suppressing herself in a thousand ways, stifling her laughter, smothering the song on her lips, trying to make her prancing feet keep pace with the feeble steps of age.
Next came two maidens, one on either side of the prancing war steed, each holding a rein.
Then the fifth and sixth maidens each holding a rein, walked on either side of the prancinghorse of the chief's brother.
Gentlemen on splendid prancing horses came up and smiled and talked with her.
We see Jack Thriftless prancing in the park, or darting in his brougham down Pall Mall: we eat his dinners served on his miraculous plate.
But now all at once the heavy trampling of horses, and a bustle at the inn door was heard, and at the same moment a splendid landau, drawn by four prancing bays, drew up before it.
You can't have a typist prancing about with clients at this time of night.
Then there was a great roar of laughter from the doorway, and a lane opened among the audience to let Stefano come prancing through in all his grotesque bravery, his bells chiming a goblin march.
He bled and bandaged and salved and dosed the fallen warrior, keeping up a running fire of remarks the while, until the wounded man arose and wentprancing off as good as new.
As I said, the goat came prancing toward us, not jumping full speed, as he might have done, so that we had plenty of time to get out of the trail.
Well, that is the way that goat came at us--head down and prancing sidewise.
A triple row of columns sustained the pediment, which was decorated with prancing horses coarsely sculptured.
Ottilia went by galloping on a chestnut mare with a groom after her, and presently all the young fellows who could buy or hire horseflesh were prancing in her train.
But ever when it seemed--her need was at the sorest A prince in shining mail--comes prancing through the forest.
Both teams were playing with desperation to avoid a decider on tired ponies, when the Wanderers' third man extricated the ball from a tangle of prancing hoofs and clattering sticks, and Alec Delgrado got away with it.
He was about to search for a crack in the door through which he could fire at least one telling shot, when his ear caught the prancing of horses on the paving stones.
Some of them had white lips but they smiled with them, and the children were prancing about everywhere, hooting with excitement.
And I did go them two days later behind eight prancing mules, in company with a cheerful telegraphist for Tuli, and a missionary who travelled in dancing pumps and a mackintosh.
The land wherein your fathers wept, and touched their plaintive psalteries; the haughty city where your sires bewailed their cold and distant hearths; your steeds are prancing on its plain, and you shall fill its palaces.
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
One day, as he wentprancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face.
Jo, prancing about, while Meg went to conduct mother to the seat of honor.
Jo thought that was splendid, and resolved to be worthy of her knight, though he did not come prancing on a charger in gorgeous array.
Prancing in pride of earthly trust, His charger hurl'd him to the dust, And, by a base plebeian thrust, He died his band before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prancing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bouncing; jumping; leaping; prancing; saltatory; steeplechase; vaulting
