Crossword-Solution: CAPRIOLE 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

There was a little pause, which was interrupted by Dame Martin observing, ‘They are standing up again.’ ‘True,’ said I, having no mind to renew my late violent CAPRIOLE, and I must go help old Willie.’ Ere I could extricate myself, I heard poor Thetis address herself to a sort of merman in a jacket of seaman’s blue, and a pair of trousers (whose hand, by the way, she had rejected at an earlier part of the evening) and intimate that she was now disposed to take a trip.

Instead of viewing him on a _fiery Pegasus_, and "snatching a grace beyond the reach of art," we behold the author mounted on a strange animal, something between a rough Welsh poney and a Peruvian sheep, whose utmost capriole only tends to land him in the mud.

Into the depths of these forests we were to penetrate in pursuit of our game, and finer covers to be stocked with _cingale_ and _capriole_, or bolder scenery for the theatre of our sylvan sport, can scarcely be imagined.

See Capriole.] Defn: To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

Who knows the demi-volt, the caracole, the curvet, the capriole or the rest of the Seven Movements? Who is elegant in the High Manege or Raised Airs? Who prances for the sheer delight of gallant rhetoric, on Litotes, Asteism or Onomatopoeia? Fain would I be bedevilled, but the Magi are passed away.