country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
This arrangement seemed to promise a country-dance, but when the music began, Dick found that a form of minuet was intended.
From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson
It's like the old country-dance of that name, where there are two gentlemen to one lady, and one has her, and the other hasn't, but comes limping up behind to make out the figure.
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles
While he with praiseworthy perseverance was still scraping away, requesting the hand of the lady for a cotillion, a minuette, or a country-dance, a gentleman came up and spoke to her.
From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by Hoggans, T.
It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing.
From The Battle of Life by Dickens, Charles
