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After the Concerto, some Polkas and Waltzes, which did better please me; for they were a lively Jingle certainly, and not quite unmeaning.

From Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick by Doyle, Richard

Quiet work this, none of your spasmodic Waltzes, kicking Polkas, and teetotum jigmarigs.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward

A Grand Orchestra, composed of Artists of Talent, will be conducted by G. Maurage, who will have performed a Repertory entirely new, composed of Quadrilles, Valses, Polkas, Schottisches, Varsoviennes, Mazurkas, Redowas, Lancers, etc.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various

As to the Polkas and Cellariuses I do not covet them of course ... but what a strange world you seem to have, to me at a distance—what a strange husk of a world!

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

Quadrilles and waltzes all give way, For Jullien’s Polkas bear the sway, The chimney sweeps, on first of May, Do, in London, dance the Polka.

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John