cut and shuffle
Example Sentences
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Then up and down, one, two, three, cut and shuffle, cross, under, and up and down again.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
And, springing up, he began to dance a sort of cut and shuffle before her out of sheer spirits.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
I cut and shuffle; shuffle, cut, again; But all my cutting, shuffling, proves in vain: 10 Vain hope, vain forethought too; The Queen still falls to you.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti
He's foremost among the mony Keel lads o' coaly Tyne: He'll set and row so tightly, Or in the dance—so sprightly— He'll cut and shuffle sightly; 'Tis true,—were he not mine.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
David stopped his cut and shuffle, and took critical stock of his sister for a moment.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
