Prancing

Examples

• Don't go prancing and capering about! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A week afterwards, she came prancing towards her husband, and made him a low curtsey: 'I am right, and you are wrong, most noble Captain. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We see Jack Thriftless prancing in the park, or darting in his brougham down Pall Mall: we eat his dinners served on his miraculous plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And this young rocking-horse was being trained in her mother's art of prancing in a stately manner without ever getting on. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Gentlemen on splendid prancing horses came up and smiled and talked with her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Sit down, you dancing, prancing, shambling, scrambling poll-parrot! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Jo thought that was splendid, and resolved to be worthy of her knight, though he did not come prancing on a charger in gorgeous array. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Edited by Jonathan