128 examples of somersaulting in sentences

At times it looked as if the wagons would turn a somersault and land on the mules.

" I accept his general hint, and watch the somersaulting pair.

he did ityes, sir, Andy did the double somersault, just like a real circus actor, and landed square on both feet!" The eyes of Andy's diminutive champion and admirer sparkled like diamonds.

The first circus he had seennot with Miss Lavinia's permissionset Andy fairly wild, and later astonished his playmates with prodigious feats of walking on a barrel, somersaulting, vaulting with a pole, and numerous other amateur gymnastic attainments.

Andy's rope-walking feat and double somersault act from desk to desk that morning had resulted, getting him into the trouble of his life.

He had tried the double somersault in the schoolroom that morning.

Sometimes Andy had made the horseback somersault successfully.

With nerve and precision Andy started a forward somersault at just the right moment.

You and him are probably the only two men in the profession who can do the somersault trapeze act with old Benares.

I had to hold my breath when one man made that somersault, away up at the top of the tent.

tumbo, m., tumble, fall; somersault; dar s, to tumble; whirl head over heels.

He fell over with a tremendous crash, and turning a complete somersault broke off both his horns with the force of the fall.

Did he harrow up his hearers with a burst from "Othello" or a deep-sea groan from "Hamlet," and then create a revulsion of feeling by somersaulting over the centre-fire of the circle and standing on his head before it, grinning diabolically at the incensed pot?

" He had, however, to discover that if to change over to Caesar was the safer course, to turn a political somersault once more, to try and undermine the work of the master, meant simply ruin.

All the strength necessary for the somersault was devoted to that operation.

On the trapeze, somersaulting over horses placed side by side, grouping with his so-called brother and a small lad, he did his full share of the work, and when the programme was ended he came among the audience to sell photographs while the lottery was being drawn.

Poker's audacity had at last outstripped his sagacity, and the next moment he was performing a tremendous somersault.

The source of their delight was not the great ragged hole just over the intruding heads, in the ceiling's lath and plaster, nor was it a whole corner torn off the grand-piano by the somersaulting shell as it leaped from the rent above to the cleaner one it had left at the baseboard in the room's farther end.

The somersaulting rabbit.

The somersaulting rabbit.

The somersaulting rabbit.

The somersaulting rabbit.

In descending a steep hill my horse stumbled and while attempting to recover himself drove a sharp stone into his hoof and turned a complete somersault, throwing me over his head on to the rocks.

We are surrounded now by blood-curdling photographs of people being run over by omnibuses or dribbled along the street by horses attached to brewers' drays, these illustrations being accompanied by explanatory notes as to the inevitable result of crossing roads with your eyes shut or your fingers in your ears and endeavouring to alight from moving omnibuses by means of the back somersault or the swallow dive.

" Malcolm promptly turned a somersault on the rug, to express his approval, but came up with a grave face, saying, "I'll bet that grandmother will say we can't have it.

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