country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
When she had gone through a Polish minuet and a single country-dance or schottische, she went away at once, after flashing through the room like a meteor.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
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
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
She replied that Henry Harford had engaged her, at the last ball, for this country-dance.
From Stories for Helen by Leslie, Eliza
