ragtime

Example Sentences

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But there are more dangerous influences than ragtimes waiting for people brought up in ignorance of fine art.

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Shaw, Bernard

Meanwhile, whether the ladies and gentlemen in the restaurants will soon be preferring sentimental waltz-tunes to flippant ragtimes is a question on which I cannot pretend to an opinion.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

"No," he said, "we have a gramophone with fox-trots, ragtimes, Beethoven and Melba, and the children nearly always choose the best records."

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

Just at present our young people are going mad over ragtimes, apparently because syncopated rhythms are new to them.

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Shaw, Bernard

We were tired of halls and revues; the theatres had started work; there was nothing left but to sit in beer-cellars and listen to dreary bands playing ragtimes and bilious waltzes.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas