The ground was cut up by numerous gullies, and more than once Roosevelt's horse turned a complete somersault with his rider.
Twice one of my old horses turned a somersault while galloping after cattle; once in a prairie-dog town, and once while trying to prevent the herd from stampeding in a storm at night.
I don't believe anywhere in North Pole Land you will find a better somersault turner than I.
He could actually turn a somersault backwards with all the ease and finish of a professional acrobat.
They made me do it again and again, and clapped until the ceiling echoed as I got the somersault in every time.
Agony enviously, as we dressed together, "somersault and all?
Saying which, she turned a somersault off the Woozy and, alighting on her feet, began wildly dancing about.
Scraps recovered from her astonishment first, and bounding upward, she turned a somersault and landed sitting down and facing the big Frogman, who slowly advanced and sat opposite her.
Isadore Phelps "blew up" with a muffled roar as he turned half a somersault in the air and landed headfirst in a huge snowdrift.
It threw a back somersault and landed again in the snow, tearing it up for yards around, the crimson tide from its wounds spattering everything thereabout.
Then suddenly he saw a very tiny man with knee-breeches and large frightened eyes, turning a somersault in the grass right at his feet.
I had extended my palm to shake hands with my new friend, but he seemed to resent my politeness; with a sort of snarl, he turned a somersault and rolled down the hill-side to where the rocks rise from the water.
Clown, turning a somersault and landing by Belinda's side with a broad grin upon his face.
The Clown shook hands, then turned a somersault and grinned from ear to ear.
William was on the floor behind Uncle George's chair endeavouring to turn a somersault in a very restricted space.
She beat her breast with her hand as if to keep her trembling heart from turning a somersault into her mouth.
Kedzie's heart turned a somersault of joy; then it flopped.
Phil threw a splendid backward somersault almost slipping off the hips of the ring horse.
At Mr. Sparling's request, however, the lad had omitted his triple somersault from the trapeze bar.
Phil had just rounded off his act by a backward somersault and the attendant had slipped the bridle over the head of the ring horse preparatory to leading the animal back to the paddock and horse tent.
And his associates looked down from their perches high in the air, gazing in wonder upon the clown who was bowing so low that, each time he did so, he was obliged to turn a somersault to gain his equilibrium.
He hit the net with a smack, bounded high into the air, rounding off his accident by throwing a somersault on the net, bounding up and down a few times on his feet.
Shivers, shaking his head warningly at the girl, as the child bounced up from the impact, kicking her little feet together and turning a somersault on the swaying net.
He felt so free that he laughed and leaped into the air and turned a somersault just as he had dreamed of doing.
I don't suppose it is very pleasant for an animal running at full speed to be checked up and made to turn a somersault and hit the ground like a thousand of--beef we'll say.
In a moment he threw forward his hand and, checking his horse, the bear turned a somersault and struck the ground with a sound heard by all of them.
The ram turned a complete somersault in space, and fell in such fashion that his horns hooked themselves upon a big projection of the opposite cliffs.
He turned a completesomersault at the apex of the curve, and as he did so, I caught sight of his face.
Billy Mink turned a back somersault into the Smiling Pool so close to the big green lily-pad on which Grandfather Frog sat that the waves almost threw Grandfather Frog into the water.
Peter Rabbit turned a back somersault and suddenly remembered that he had important business down on the Green Meadows.
They turn an intellectual somersault and are immediately as completely at home with the new as the old.
Kundrys, whether they realize it or not, and it is on the cards that they may never again wish to somersault back to that mental attitude where they would dominate not serve.
Their descents were often of a rushing nature, and accompanied with such sudden twists and turns as, sometimes, seemed to amount to a complete somersault in the air--though as to this I will not be too certain.
They are not all so abrupt and dramatic, but there is one point common to them all, which is the impossibility of saying exactly how the actual somersault is thrown.
At intervals one or another of them will make its peculiar throw or somersault in the air.
He pulled the string, up the stick went the Monkey, and then and there, before the crowd of boys and girls in the tent, the lively fellow turned a somersault head over tail.
Herr Oberbipp jumped up so quickly that he upset his chair, and in trying to catch the chair he upset himself, turning a back somersault on the floor and landing in a tub of soapsuds in which the clothes were soaking to be washed.
Could you have respected me had I cut a complete intellectual and moral somersault merely at the wave of your beautiful hand?
He made another desperate effort to climb the spiral, turned a complete somersault and came down headforemost.
