country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

Away went the band at once, and down the middle I flew with my partner, to the measure of a quick country-dance that no human legs could keep time to.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

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

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

I think Miss Fairfax dances very well; and Mrs. Weston is the very best country-dance player, without exception, in England.

From Emma by Austen, Jane