country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
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
Now, sir, as we have here English, Scotch, and Irish dancers, we can have the English country-dance, the Scotch reel, and the Irish jig.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 08 by Edgeworth, Maria
You are thrown on your back immediately; the conversation is stopt like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure.
From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Conklin, Mary Greer
The sun shone upon the spangled dresses of the performers, and their evolutions were about as inspiriting and appropriate as a country-dance in a family vault.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles
