country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

You are thrown on your back immediately, the conversation is stopped like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

She replied that Henry Harford had engaged her, at the last ball, for this country-dance.

From Stories for Helen by Leslie, Eliza

This country-dance was danced in the picture gallery.

From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Tytler, Sarah

Mr. Cooper, my daughter, sir—Miss Billsmethi, sir, who I hope will have the pleasure of dancing many a quadrille, minuet, gavotte, country-dance, fandango, double-hornpipe, and farinagholkajingo with you, sir. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles