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Sentences ending with dance

Why is it you'll never give me a dance? [9]
I knew her worth when first she came to London, as arrant a baggage as ever led man a dance. [9]
Sometimes I sat with my back against the dunes watching the drag of the outgoing water rolling the pebbles after it, making a gleaming floor for the light to dance. [9]
But if you wish to cast into oblivion the poisoned cup proffered just now, do me the favour to trust yourself to my guidance in the next dance. [10]
The young people vainly waited for the signal to dance. [10]
I don't want to see her dance. [4]
Then we begin to drop in here, three days before she's due, to encourage him up, and ask if he's heard from her, and Saturday we all come and fix up the house with flowers, and get everything ready for a dance. [5]
This is no time to dance. [5]
I scarce had time enough to change my weed for the dance. [10]
Early rickets, I think, had been succeeded by the St. Vitus' dance. [4]

Short sentences using dance

Well, this is our dance. [11]
This was an exhibition dance. [4]
She is to dance. [4]
Don't forget the dance. [11]
But she does dance splendidly. [2]
And the dance begins. [10]
Devil take you all, dance! [4]
You don't dance? [4]
Like to dance? [4]
The dance! [11]

Sentences containing dance two or more times

Her sale of the star had been only an unfortunate act of weakness, but the dance, the luckless dance! [10]
The Fleshers' was such a dance as in England is called a country dance and they held leather-straps twisted to look like sausages; the cutlers' dance was less clumsy, and they carried naked swords. [10]
From her he had learned to dance the dance of the Ghawazee. [11]
Forasmuch as she had danced with him the Dance of Honor or first dance, it was his part to beg her hand for the last dance--the "grandfather's dance;"--[Still a well-known country dance in Germany. [10]
There was another dance, and then another, a slow languid movement, half melancholy and full of sorrow, if one might say that of a movement, for unrepented sin; a gypsy dance this, accompanied by the mournful song of Boabdil, "The Last Sigh of the Moor. [4]

More example sentences with the word dance in them

I would ask you to stay to the dance to-night if your skin were only white, instead of red. [9]
So long as you have your dance, it matters little to you who pays for the tune. [11]
She would dance you a rigadoon or cut a pigeon's wing for you very respectably. [6]
Tread the measure, with fearless stamp, Of this our reckless, rapturous dance, In holy rejoicing! [10]
Melissa threw her whole soul into the dance while Demeter was seeking the lost Persephone, her thoughts were with her brothers; and she laughed as heartily as any one at the jests with which Iambe cheered the stricken mother. [10]
The great lady, who probably remembered having directed Heinz's attention to Eva at the dance, understood very clearly that they could not fail to attract each other. [10]
The first person who had ventured to dance the gaillarde before the eyes of the monarch and his horrified courtiers, was Sophonisba--her partner was Duke Gonzaga. [10]
Then the minstrels, which were disguised, danced; and the lords and ladies did wildly dance also, that it was a pleasure to behold. [5]
A dance, for which her partner came to seek her, put an end to her discourse with her future directeur de conscience, but the next evening Monsieur de Jobert came to see Helene when she was alone, and after that often came again. [2]
My voice went when I got a bad cold again, and I couldn't stand the draughts of the theatre, and so I couldn't dance, either. [11]
After the dance, when he was taking her to her mother, he saw a pale intense face looking out to him from a row of others. [11]
Nay, he presently went to such lengths that our Franconian and Nuremberg nobles could but turn away their faces, inasmuch as he began so wild and unseemly a dance as was overmuch even for me, despite my youth and sheer delight in the quick measure. [10]
Last winter I went over to Blountsville to a dance in the court-house; there was a trial between Union and Blountsville for the best dancing. [4]
And now--another honor we can duly appreciate!--he sends his praetorians to turn this house of mourning into a tavern, a wine-shop, where they call creatures in from the street to dance and sing. [10]
What a study was this varied, mixed, flaunting life, this dance of pleasure and license before the very altar of the church, for the writers of satire, comedy, and tragedy! [4]
When the play was over she was immediately surrounded by enthusiastic admirers eager to congratulate her, to dance with her. [9]
When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
The Tall Master was now playing a wonderful thing, half dance, half carnival; but with that Call still beating through it. [11]
One night there was a dance in our honour. [9]
Can a woman walk the dance with evil, and be no worse for it by-and-bye? [11]
Whereupon the latter vowed that they would have a party at their house too, and made arrangements for a dance of twenty or thirty couples, to be followed by an entertainment. [6]
Then in another village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town. [5]
Siebenburg now looked up at the huge escutcheon and recalled the day when, after having been specially favoured by Isabella Eysvogel at a dance in the Town Hall, he had paused in the same place. [10]
Ursula had snatched up a spoon, and when the mad sport was ended and he had let go her hand, she rapped him with it smartly on the arm and cried: "You are still what you ever were, in the dance at least! [10]
Then, and not until then, Daniel Quilp found himself, all flushed and dishevelled, in the middle of the street, with Mr Richard Swiveller performing a kind of dance round him and requiring to know 'whether he wanted any more? [12]
They climbed the trees, then flashed splendidly in and out of the vast and increasing volume of tumbling smoke, and I had to clap my hands and laugh and dance in my rapture, it was so new and strange and so wonderful and so beautiful! [5]
It is hardly too much to say that it has become the fashion to write, as it used to be to dance the minuet well, or to use the broadsword, or to stand a gentlemanly mill with a renowned bruiser. [4]
I will sing to you, dance to you, even pray for you--we poor sinners do that sometimes, and go on sinning; but, again, nothing more. [11]
But not listening to what Firhoff was saying, he was gazing now at the sovereign and now at the men intending to dance who had not yet gathered courage to enter the circle. [2]
He instantly expressed to the Ratisbon gentlemen his desire to try the gagliarde himself to such excellent music, and at a sign from the master of ceremonies the dance stopped. [10]
She permitted him to take her, however, to Gruber's Cafe, to the movies, and one or two select dance halls, and to Slattery's Riverside Park, where one evening she had encountered the rejected Mr. Wiley. [9]
It's like trying to do a St. Vitus's dance with wooden legs. [5]
Who allowed them to dance and play there all those centuries and found no fault with it? [5]
Since she came to Canada, some nine months ago, she has lived most quietly and religiously, though many trials have been made to bring her talents into service; and the Intendant has made many efforts have her dance in the palace for his guests. [11]
Now they dance to Bigot's whistling; he will lock her safe enough to-morrow, 'less some one steps in to help her. [11]
The sorrows of three years were suddenly lifted from his shoulders, and for an instant Ephraim wanted to dance until he remembered the rheumatism and the Wilderness leg. [9]
Torture rose from those four immeasurable chords; destruction was afoot upon them; a dreadful dance of death supervened. [11]
The dance in this square had been one of her fairest memories. [10]
Her father thought they would probably have a dance there, for the young sons of the Burgrave would act as hosts. [10]
At a dance they can be hidden under tight sleeves, but how hot that would be in the 'Schwabeln' and 'Rai'! [10]
After this tourney there was to be a grand dance in the School of Arms, to which their Majesties were bidden with all the princes, knights, and notables of the Diet, and the patricians of the town. [10]
The music ceased, there came feminine laughter across the water, then Nick's voice, in French that dared everything:-- "Go away and amuse yourselves at the dance. [9]
Long, long ago there appeared in Punch a cartoon of Lord Beaconsfield executing that most difficult of performances, an egg dance. [9]
They, "and also their wives, began to make themselves merry, insomuch that they began to dance, and to sing, and to speak with much rudeness; yea, they were lifted up unto exceeding rudeness. [5]
The others nodded their heads, and, as they went out, McGilveray said after them: "I'll dance a jig on yer sepulchrees, ye swobs! [11]
She thoughtfully gave the wheel a push, and as it turned swiftly she remembered the Swiss dance the evening before, and suddenly clenched her small right hand and dealt the palm of her left a light blow. [10]
As for Barbara, the warm blood and fresh love of pleasure of youth, qualities which to many were her special charm, had led her into the error of the luckless dance. [10]
They assembled under the walls in two bands, and marched past the town hall and from thence to a dance of both guilds. [10]
He had seen the unfortunate young man the day before yesterday at the fencing school, and yesterday, full of overflowing mirth, at the dance, and knew that he, too, had fought in the battle of Marchfield. [10]
Just glance at the title please,--'Gonderil the Vampire, or The Dance of Death. [5]
The arrival of the Ten was an event of importance, and occurred the day of the dance. [9]
Joan had had the taste of the lawless, and now she knew, as she sat and listened to Bissonnette's music, that she also could dance for joy, in the hope of a taste of the lawful. [11]
Please come to the saloon and get me an ice before the next dance. [11]
The dance answers the purpose of the revolving pedestal upon which the "White Captive" turns, to show us the soft, kneaded marble, which looks as if it had never been hard, in all its manifold aspects of living loveliness. [6]
Now, Sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people's money being used to pay the fiddler. [7]
Study recommenced on the first of October, and during the leisure days before that time the village church festival was celebrated under the village linden, with plenty of cakes, and a dance of the peasants, in which we older ones took part. [10]
The week after the Fair Mr. Clarence Colfax gave a great dance at Bellegarde, in honor of his cousin, Virginia, to which Mr. Stephen Brice was not invited. [9]
At length arrived the eve of St. John, when the lower classes of Granada swarm into the country, dance away the afternoon, and pass midsummer's night on the banks of the Darro and the Xenil. [4]
They all know the dance, and the music is a guide to the feeling to be expressed; the dancing must be suited to it. [10]
Before and during the dance with Heinz the latter had requested him to use the noble Arabian steed, a gift from the Sultan Kalaun to the Emperor, who had bestowed it upon her, and also expressed the hope of meeting the knight frequently. [10]
At last, when the dance was all over, the guilds with the town-pipers betook them to the head constable's quarters, where they were served with drink and ate the Shrove-Tuesday meal of fish which was given in their honor. [10]
Was he inviting the countess to dance again? [10]
I don't know that you must break any bones in a poet's mechanism before his thought can dance in rhythm, but read your Milton and see what training, what patient labor, it took before he could shape our common speech into his majestic harmonies. [6]
Some historians say that thirty couples, some say thirty thousand couples, can dance on the head of this cask at the same time. [5]
Stephen was sure that his Royal Highness made that particular dance longer than the others. [9]
There are others that flow carelessly in the upper sunshine, begin to ripple and dance, then run swiftly, and rush into rapids in which there is no escape (though friends stand weeping and imploring on the banks) from the awful plunge of the cataract. [4]
He chose the tallest and most stately of the slender dames of Venice to lead in the dance, or through the throng of masks and citizens intoxicated with the mirth of the carnival. [10]
He saw her swinging like a Bacchante in the dance with the young Saxon duke; the star which had been thrown away appeared before his eyes, and his irritated soul commanded him never to see her again. [10]
They would gain Suzanne for a dance only to have her snatched away at the next by the slim and reckless young gentleman in the gray court clothes. [9]
Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. [2]
I go and stand in the great gallery above the hall of dance, with crowd of people, and look down at the grand folk. [11]
It was the spot where he had seen her at the dance. [11]
I've learned two Spanish poems and a Castilian dance. [4]
There was a singing in her ears, and flashes of colored light seemed to dance before her closed eyes. [10]
He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray, And dance and drink and jest, And lie and steal--all one to him-- He done his level best. [5]
Capriciously releasing him, she stood before me, "Hugh, you haven't asked me to dance, or even told me what you thought of the play. [9]
While thus engaged she often chuckled aloud, murmuring "Ulrich," and while mixing and stirring the mixture could not keep her old feet still; it almost seemed as if she wanted to dance. [10]
No wonder that she learned to dance quickly under such an inspiration! [9]
Before the dance she had secretly rejoiced in the applause elicited by her appearance; now she was indifferent to it--nay, the more eagerly the spectators expressed their delight the more she grieved that the only person whom she desired to please was not among them. [10]
After the dance she got hold of him, keeping him until certain designing ladies with daughters took him away; their names charity forbids me to mention. [9]
By Heaven, you shall have the spider dance before you! [11]
Es sollte mich sehr freuen wenn Sie-- M. (Joining in the dance. [5]
The menservants, carrying sedan chairs and torches, had all gone out with their master, who had taken his younger daughter, Eva, to the dance. [10]
Even in the second year of my stay at Kottbus I went to every dance given on the estates in the neighbourhood and visited many a delightful home in the town. [10]
Myrtle no sooner saw the little accident of which her rural friend was the victim than she left her place in the dance with a simple courage which did her credit. [6]
Nicholas could not refuse Iogel and asked Sonya to dance. [2]
But as she reached the top a loud medley of noises and voices met her ear-flutes, drums?--The sacred dance, she supposed, must be going on. [10]
An opportunity to put them into practice was close at hand, for the 29th of November was Barop's birthday, which was celebrated by a little dance after the play. [10]
Young Gerrit Smith played some ravishing dance music and we all danced about an hour. [5]
In the first place, it recalled to her memory the dance under the lindens at Prebrunn. [10]
I thought of Percy Singleton, and stopped him in the midst of a dance to bid him run as fast as his legs would carry him to the Coffee House, and to see that no harm befell you. [9]
There were twenty people in the set, and the dance was very lively and complicated. [5]
Just a little pause--then the Band burst out into an explosion of weird and tremendous dance music, a Hungarian celebrity and his wife took the floor--I followed; I couldn't help it; the others drifted in, one by one, and it was Onteora over again. [5]
Though the dinner party was not large, there was to be a dance afterwards, and for every guest was provided a special attendant. [4]
More than one pair paused in the dance to watch them. [9]
She was led out to dance by Junker Henning; his fellow country-man, Sir Apitz von Rochow, walked with Ursula and courted her with unfailing ardor. [10]
I wonder if our society is getting to dance and frolic along like that of old at Baiae! [4]
He, like the other guests, made friends with the strangers, and in his merry fashion he bid the older bear leader tell our fortunes by our hands, while the young ones should dance. [10]
It was fight or look on, all day and every day; and sing, gamble, dance, carouse half the night every night. [5]
At first he only got the usual birth-bounty; but now that he has got so that he can dance, there is simply no telling what wages he gets. [5]

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