sidle

• She released Ivradan with a jerk that made his pony lunge and sidle, and ran toward the sound. —  The Warslayer
• It would shy and sidle, and dart so far ahead that the pony would get discouraged and would lag back, and have to be whipped up again; and then the whole thing would have to be gone through with the same as at first. —  The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story
• Mine commenced to back and sidle, and Peterkin's made occasional darts forward, and then stopping suddenly, refused to budge a step. —  The Gorilla Hunters
• Every herdsman and shepherd knows the danger to be apprehended from the inclination of some of either kind to "sidle" off from the plain and beaten track and pluck the green leaves of the laurel to their own destruction Many a time have I overtaken flocks of sheep, some of which were lying along the road "_down with the staggers_." —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
• No matter how Sapphira may prance and back and sidle, he follows her round and round with a remnant of a shirt, rubbing mud-spots off my boots in the stirrup. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 10, 1917

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