country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
I should be as scandalised at a bon mot issuing from his oracle-looking mouth, as to see Cato go down a country-dance.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing.
From The Battle of Life by Dickens, Charles
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
The drawing-room, fourteen feet by ten, was fitted up as a ballroom, with two fiddlers and a fifer sitting in a corner and a country-dance was performing when we arrived.
From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick
