cut and shuffle
Example Sentences
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His thoughts were on the window and the fire-escape, and he hardly heard her monotonous sentences, though he obeyed mechanically her instructions to cut and shuffle.
From The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Bannister Merwin
Forewarned, all eyes have been focused on the line of her masts, and her sheer gives signal for a general cut and shuffle.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
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
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
