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Maneige Royal_ [264] in which magnificent engravings show Louis XIII. making courbettes, voltes, and "caprioles" around the Louvre, while a circle of grandees gravely discuss the deportment of his charger.
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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Lacy thoughtfully asked us for a French branle, with a tempered choreography without caprioles or jetés.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Lacy thoughtfully asked us for a French branle, with a tempered choreography without caprioles or jetés.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Hart, a natural horseman, showed off doing high caprioles in the air.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Hart, a natural horseman, showed off doing high caprioles in the air.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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We spent our days learning the four types of battemens, nine types of pas de bourrée, balloté, fouetté, caprioles and entrechats and the lazzi or comic routines of the repertoire.
Archive 2009-06-01 Young Geoffrion 2009
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We spent our days learning the four types of battemens, nine types of pas de bourrée, balloté, fouetté, caprioles and entrechats and the lazzi or comic routines of the repertoire.
Actresses Young Geoffrion 2009
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They remained silent until the last monk had disappeared through the side-door which communicated with their dwelling-place, and even then it cost some exhortations on the part of Howleglas, some caprioles of the hobby-horse, and some wallops of the dragon, to rouse once more the rebuked spirit of revelry.
The Abbot 2008
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That bitter scorn which the spirit that is wrapped up in the doings and dealings of the earth often has at hand, Krespel gives vent to in outrageous gestures and agile caprioles.
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Young men and boys, on the other hand, play according to recognized law, old, traditionary games, permitting no caprioles of fancy, but with scope enough for the outbreak of savage instincts ....
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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