trapesing

Williamses "trapesing," as Mrs Murchison said, across the grass, though she was too content to make it more than a private grievance, to where they all sat on the verandah.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

He evokes a cast of one "awkward booby", one "old grumbletonian", one "tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole" and one obliging girl with cheeks "as red as a pulpit cushion".

She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

I desire you will not be trapesing through the rooms.

Our Street 2006

Funny to see the Row with no horses tearing up and down, or trapesing past like cats on hot bricks, no stream of carriages, no rows of sitting people, nothing but trees and the tan track.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

Do you suppose I want to come trapesing round here half a dozen times a day for my boots?

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

It is not a photograph that you look upon any longer; there you go, trapesing along in the procession yourselves.

Three Guineas 2003

For there, trapesing along at the tail end of the procession, we go ourselves.

Three Guineas 2003

Only young and foolish creatures still go trapesing round from house to house, putting off their bedtime, not knowing what is best for themselves.

Under the Autumn Star 2003

A few even forgot their collars; but the equipage of the prefect seemed to anticipate the crowd, and the two yoked jades, trapesing in their harness, came up at a little trot in front of the peristyle of the town hall at the very moment when the National Guard and firemen deployed, beating drums and marking time.

Madame Bovary 2003

Tolstoy and the rest, and face the fact that stares us in the face at this moment of transition — the fact of the procession; the fact that we are trapesing along somewhere in the rear and must consider that fact before we can fix our eyes upon the vision on the horizon.

Three Guineas 2003