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Definition of Somersaulted
1. somersault [v] - See also: somersault
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somersaulted
Literary usage of Somersaulted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paterfamilias's Diary of Everybody's Tour: Belgium and the Rhine, Munich by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1856)
"... lanced on the slack rope as if she had been a bird : and as for men, they
somersaulted and did daring feats as only ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"Suddenly the fish rose to the surface and "somersaulted " clean out of the water.
" My ! what a big fellow it is ! " cried Neil. Judge was stupefied with ..."
3. Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker (1919)
"nose struck the mud and in a twinkling the machine had somersaulted over onto
her back and slid along towards us tail foremost. We walked out to the wreck ..."
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