country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

It was a regular jig-a-jig—a country-dance of pousette, down the middle, and right and left.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

The fiddler was playing some sort of country-dance and all the company, except the very old people, were dancing and singing, some of the men indulging in most wonderful steps and capers.

From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

In the country, you know, any stranger is company, and we're glad to take up with the butler in a country-dance, and happy if he 'll do us the favour.

From The Beaux-Stratagem by Farquhar, George

I can vouch for old Tom and Miss Croply leading off a country-dance the same evening in Prior Cottage; but it is two-and-twenty years ago.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Chambers, Robert