country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

The Miss Darnels and their partners took their places near the top of the country-dance.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

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

The merry-making consists mainly in the performance, beneath some noble trees, of the old country-dance of Sir Roger de Coverley, by a party of rustics.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

I can vouch for old Tom and Miss Croply leading off a country-dance the same evening in Prior Cottage; but it is two-and-twenty years ago.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Chambers, Robert