summersets

So saying, he blew out the candle, kicked off his shoes, and groped his way up stairs; leaving his delighted young friend in an ecstasy of summersets on the pavement.

The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

Aunt Polly entered in time to see him throw a few double summersets, deliver a final mighty hurrah, and sail through the open window, carrying the rest of the flower-pots with him.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

They were very clever bears, and could climb posts and trees, dance and turn summersets and do a great many other tricks besides.

Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories Anonymous

They are great vaulters and ankle-springers, and boys may frequently be seen to spring from the ground whirling twice -- turning _two_ summersets -- before lighting on their feet.

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

I am pretty sure Hec would turn summersets for us.

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

I seed Jud's coat-tail a-turnin 'summersets through the air, the saddle and blanket a-followin'.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

In a moment I was jerked into the air, and, after performing half a dozen involuntary summersets, was thrown into the water, some distance from the ship's side.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

When the little chaps play hide and seek till they get tired, and shove the chairs around for cars and engines, and look at all the pictures, and cut up all the newspapers, and turn summersets on their little bed, and then get restless and whine around for freedom, Mrs. Arp opens her school and stands 'em up by the buro to say their lessons.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

How they ran races down the road, and turned summersets on the green grass!

The Romance of the Civil War 1903

A very young boy, excited by his first sight of sunflowers, was eager to describe them, and called them, without allowing himself to be checked for the trifle of a name, "summersets."

The Children Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884