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The traditional folk dance, the quadrille, dates back to eighteenth century European settlers.
Who might indulge in a boogie-woogie quadrille at such a time is beyond me.
Who am I to interpose in the delicately poised quadrille of consumers and the fulfillers of dreams?
The final of the three numbers was an eight-person quadrille with some modern variations.
The shifting positions on his map give the impression of a lobsters' quadrille being danced.
Oh, yes, I had three waltzes, the second quadrille and the mazurka, and he is ever so courteous, and kind, and gentlemanly!
The lancers, a variation of the quadrille, became popular in the late 1800s and was still danced in the mid-20th century in folk-dance clubs.
Traditional French Canadian dances include the quadrille and the gigue.
All the dances and rhythms of Martinique from the quadrille to the haute taille?
The last addition was the quadrille, a wire-mesh mask that protects the face.
In France, a similar custom exists of accompanying quadrille dances on the violin.
He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet.
It won't last long, this curious quadrille of quasi-courtship.
He only grinned and led me back onto the dance floor as quadrille began.
The quadrillionth quadrille Elementary, really Jumbo problems ReprintsIt was at this point that things turned nasty.
A precursor of the quadrille, the cotillion was danced by four couples standing in a square set.
The oldest dances seem to be the passepied and the gavotte, and the newest ones derive from the quadrille and French Renaissance dances.
The quadrillionth quadrille Elementary, really Jumbo problems ReprintsSuch measurements, though an improvement on completely dumb bags, are still rough and ready.
The quadrille was frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies.
Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.
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I engage Madeleine for the first quadrille, and Bertha for the first waltz.
I would not take the trouble to stand up in a quadrille, if I were in his place.
Coupeau was trying to force his way through the dancers and was disrupting the quadrille.
Meanwhile two csardas and a polonaise were danced, after which our quadrille would come.
The lady who had excited it was advancing in a quadrille, some ten yards from her admirer.
She could not say any more, as she was called away to a game at quadrille.
Then he and the cross-eyed girl took their places for another quadrille.
They'll turn the squadron into a quadrille and the march into a dance.
Saying these words, Caddy laughingly sat down at a little jingling square piano and really rattled off a quadrille with great spirit.
Sir Patrick's interest in the first quadrille became almost painful to see.
The goose-step, the manual and platoon took the place of the quadrille.
The young man looked, bowed in obedience, and then went to Teresa, and invited her to dance in a quadrille directed by the count's daughter.
She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings, and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening.
You can walk through a quadrille, so you need not begin with excuses.
This is my friend Bob Hely, performing the Cavalier seul in a quadrille.
She met Mr. Bartram in this quadrille, and he talked to her afterward.
Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.
But as she was dancing the last quadrille with one of the tiresome young men whom she could not refuse, she chanced to be vis-a-vis with Vronsky and Anna.
For the moment, the dance which is in progress is a quadrille.
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