cut and shuffle
Example Sentences
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Then up and down, one, two, three, cut and shuffle, cross, under, and up and down again.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
I cut and shuffle; shuffle, cut, again; But all my cutting, shuffling, proves in vain: 10 Vain hope, vain forethought too; The Queen still falls to you.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina
Forewarned, all eyes have been focused on the line of her masts, and her sheer gives signal for a general cut and shuffle.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)
He's foremost among the mony Keel lads o' coaly Tyne: He'll set and row so tightly, Or in the dance—so sprightly— He'll cut and shuffle sightly; 'Tis true,—were he not mine.
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
His thoughts were on the window and the fire-escape, and he hardly heard her monotonous sentences, though he obeyed mechanically her instructions to cut and shuffle.
From The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Merwin, Bannister
