| 单词 | country-dance |
| 例句 | The international pop star performed his electronic dance songs at music festivals around the world and landed on U.S. radio with his country-dance mashup “Wake Me Up.” Family of late DJ Avicii to launch foundation in his memory 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Despite its tripping iambic step, evoking a country-dance in 3-4 time, the poem is unsettled. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z And in April, he started a syndicated country radio mixshow, which airs in over 40 markets, and on which he plays high-energy country and his own country-dance remixes. Country Music Opens Its Ears 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The international pop star performed his electronic dance songs at music festivals around the world and landed on U.S. radio with his country-dance mashup “Wake Me Up.” Family of late DJ Avicii to launch foundation in his memory 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z An account of the country-dance, with the names of some of the old dance-tunes, has been given above. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z When she had gone through a Polish minuet and a single country-dance or schottische, she went away at once, after flashing through the room like a meteor. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z Gavotte, ga-vot′, n. a lively kind of dance, somewhat like a country-dance, originally a dance of the Gavotes, the people of Gap, in the Upper Alps: the music for such a dance. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The Miss Darnels and their partners took their places near the top of the country-dance. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z She replied that Henry Harford had engaged her, at the last ball, for this country-dance. Stories for Helen 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. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Contra-dance is better than country-dance, the latter word being a corruption; but it has become admissible from long use. Every-Day Errors of Speech Ay, once more down the middle to the tune of that spirited country-dance—"Off she goes!" Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) You are thrown on your back immediately, the conversation is stopped like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature You are thrown on your back immediately; the conversation is stopt like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it 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. Jack Hinton The Guardsman I have been accounted a good stick in a country-dance.—Odds jigs and tabors! The Rivals A Comedy Elizabeth played one country-dance, Lady Bridges the other, which she made Henry dance with her, and Miss Finch played the Boulangeries. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record 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. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 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. Jacob Faithful The minuet being voted slow, a country-dance quickly succeeded it. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley 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. Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War In the country, you know, any stranger is company, and we're glad to take up with the butler in a country-dance, and happy if he 'll do us the favour. The Beaux-Stratagem The French contredanse was borrowed from the English ‘country-dance’. English Past and Present Now, if we can knock the Comte off a couple of points, in passing, all his fellows astern will follow, and the Warspite and Blenheim and Thunderer will slip by like girls in a country-dance! The Two Admirals While dancing with her in a country-dance one evening at her house, she exclaimed, on hearing a sudden sonorous twang, "Dear me! there is one of the chords of my harp snapped." Records of a Girlhood The fiddler was playing some sort of country-dance and all the company, except the very old people, were dancing and singing, some of the men indulging in most wonderful steps and capers. Chateau and Country Life in France The sun shone upon the spangled dresses of the performers, and their evolutions were about as inspiriting and appropriate as a country-dance in a family vault. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people 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. The Old Curiosity Shop It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing. The Battle of Life I think Miss Fairfax dances very well; and Mrs. Weston is the very best country-dance player, without exception, in England. Emma I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Northanger Abbey About one hundred couple stood up in each country-dance, but the rooms are so large and so judiciously lighted, that we did not feel at all warm. Life in Mexico 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. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 A band played," writes the Queen, "and after dinner we danced, with the three boys and the three girls and the company, a merry country-dance on the terrace—a delightful finale to the expedition! Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 His great- grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. The Coverley Papers Again he says: "The Queen was in great spirits, and danced with more than usual gaiety, a romping, country-dance, called the Tempest." Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Let there be a minuet, a country-dance, and an allemande, he had said to Leporello in that dizzying song of instruction which whirls past our senses like a mad wind: "Finch' han dal vino." A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music And stepping into the middle of the hall she made a sign to the musicians to play a country-dance. The Honor of the Name This country-dance was danced in the picture gallery. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 She did not refuse him for the country-dance which followed, and soon after was his partner in a second. A Group of Noble Dames The country-dance called the ‘Triumph, or Follow my Lover,’ was the figure with which they opened. Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school The Queen chiefly delighted in a romping sort of country-dance, called the Tempête. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 |
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