country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

While dancing with her in a country-dance one evening at her house, she exclaimed, on hearing a sudden sonorous twang, "Dear me! there is one of the chords of my harp snapped."

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny

Now, if we can knock the Comte off a couple of points, in passing, all his fellows astern will follow, and the Warspite and Blenheim and Thunderer will slip by like girls in a country-dance!

From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore

The Miss Darnels and their partners took their places near the top of the country-dance.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

The country-dance occupied the whole length of the room; and round the walls were disposed tables for whist or loo, where the elders amused themselves with as much pleasure, and not less noise.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James