country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
The drawing-room, fourteen feet by ten, was fitted up as a ballroom, with two fiddlers and a fifer sitting in a corner and a country-dance was performing when we arrived.
From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick
Away went the band at once, and down the middle I flew with my partner, to the measure of a quick country-dance that no human legs could keep time to.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
The country-dance occupied the whole length of the room; and round the walls were disposed tables for whist or loo, where the elders amused themselves with as much pleasure, and not less noise.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
An account of the country-dance, with the names of some of the old dance-tunes, has been given above.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
