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Sentences starting with dancing

Dancing was a sin in itself, and no one could tell what it would lead to. [4]
Dancing was distinctly immoral; card-playing led directly to gambling with all its attendant evils; theatre-going characterized the conduct of the more disreputable denizens of great cities. [4]
Dancing for the East Side is the best thing I have heard yet. [4]
Dancing had begun, and he was now accepting the invitation of the magistrate Ambrosius Ammann to inaugurate the young people's pleasure as leader of the Polish dance. [10]
Dancing is tiresome. [10]

Sentences ending with dancing

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]
While the chamberlain was retiring, Charles saw Barbara leaning on Malfalconnet's arm, beckoned to them, and asked her whether she had yielded to her love for dancing. [10]
From her willowy walk a sophisticated observer would have hazarded the guess that her search for an occupation had included a course of lessons in fancy dancing. [9]
Now I will tell you of that dancing. [11]
Hundreds of times I've forbidden you to throw yourselves on the dewy grass in the evening, when you were heated by dancing. [10]
She had a husband who played the kemengeh for her dancing. [11]
Meanwhile the Emperor had returned to the throne, and Maurice of Saxony was again standing beside him, while the chamberlain Andreas Wolff was humbly, inviting the monarch to make the Ratisbon young people happy by visiting the scene of the dancing. [10]
There was no end to the games and dancing. [10]
He hadn't been dancing. [5]
There was no dancing. [4]

Short sentences using dancing

The dancing went on briskly. [6]
We visited the Dancing Dervishes. [5]
They are feasting and dancing. [11]
Was it dancing? [9]
The dancing! [10]

Sentences containing dancing two or more times

The two took dancing lessons together, and there was no greater joy than when the lesson was at our house, for then the young ladies occasionally did us the favour of dancing with us, to Herr Guichard's tiny violin. [10]
It was not a ball, nor had dancing been announced, but everyone knew that Catherine Petrovna would play valses and the ecossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball. [2]

More example sentences with the word dancing in them

A young Spanish woman who taught her dancing succeeded best with her, for she had a passion for that exercise, and had mastered some of the most difficult dances. [6]
Rumours of war with France had set his blood dancing a little, but for him most things were robbed of half their pleasure because they did not come at once. [11]
I'll be a Will o' the Wisp, now here, now there, dancing about you always, starting up when you least expect me, and keeping you in a constant state of restlessness and irritation. [12]
Berg and his wife, who were not dancing, came up to them. [2]
I don't see why dancing isn't just as good an accomplishment as playing the harp in a Greek dress. [4]
There were jellies, which had been shaking, all the time the young folks were dancing in the next room, as if they were balancing to partners. [6]
Behind the moss-hut, wherein I had found my Herdegen with the dancing hussy, the Swabian Junker and Ritter Franz had fought, without any heed of the law and order of such combat--fought for life or death, and for my sake. [10]
At midnight dancing was still going on. [2]
Although his dancing was perfect, he lost the step without apparent cause, his expression changed, and for the moment he seemed to be utterly confused. [9]
How hot she was from dancing, and the unusual strength of the wine and water she had drunk! [10]
When her hair was done, Natasha, in her short petticoat from under which her dancing shoes showed, and in her mother's dressing jacket, ran up to Sonya, scrutinized her, and then ran to her mother. [2]
At first nothing was clear to me; my brain was dancing in my head, my sight was obscured, my body painful, my senses were blunted. [11]
Besides, her head was burning after the dancing and the wine which she had drunk. [10]
I waltzed one waltz and quadrilled one quadrille, but it was hard work; and as the sole occupation of these parties is dancing and card-playing--conversation apparently not being customary--they are to me not very attractive. [6]
We were not used to dancing on an even keel, though, and it was only a questionable success. [5]
But Honora continued to go to the dancing class, where she treated Mr. Meeker with a hauteur that astonished him, amused Virginia Hayden, and perplexed Cousin Eleanor. [9]
Natasha gazed at them and was ready to cry because it was not she who was dancing that first turn of the waltz. [2]
Well-remembered figure amidst the yellow leaves dancing in the sunlight! [9]
Prince Andrew, in the white uniform of a cavalry colonel, wearing stockings and dancing shoes, stood looking animated and bright in the front row of the circle not far from the Rostovs. [2]
They were dancing the renowned "Can-can. [5]
Something occurred in the midst of the dancing which gave a new turn to affairs. [11]
He would be the man for me, spite of your involuntary meeting with him and your devout sister, for whom he forgot every one else, and me also, in the dancing hall. [10]
For instance, by the light dancing in Mr. Tiernan's eyes as he regarded her, she saw herself now as the mainstay of the helpless family in the clay-yellow flat across the street. [9]
We read of the dinners and lunches on board, the entertainments where there were wine and dancing and moonlight, and all that. [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]
The perspectives of the cross-streets toward the river were very lively, with their turmoil of trucks and cars and carts and hacks and foot passengers, ending in the chimneys and masts of shipping, and final gleams of dancing water. [8]
A fragment of the air to which they were dancing brought her to a stop. [9]
It is said that your godmother surprised these creatures on a summer's night dancing under the tree called l'Arbre Fee de Bourlemont. [5]
She had hardly taken this position, when there came dancing up the street, with his legs all wrong, and his head everywhere by turns, a pony. [12]
Denisov did not take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not because he could not. [2]
Everywhere in the Swiss highlands brilliant little rills of exquisitely cold water went dancing along by the roadsides, and my comrade and I were always drinking and always delivering our deep gratitude. [5]
But Alixe, the sweetest soul France ever gave the world, could not know all I knew; guessing only at heavy carousals, cards, song, and raillery, with far-off hints of feet lighter than fit in cavalry boots dancing among the glasses on the table. [11]
Her voice is strident, her laugh too much like a giggle, and she has that foolish way of dancing and bobbing like a quill-float with a "minnum" biting the hook below it, which one sees and weeps over sometimes in persons of more pretensions. [6]
Over in another street they could see the bear on his hind feet, dancing, but they could not see the man. [11]
As I was starting out at the front door, with Gerhardt beside me and the young wife dancing and jubilating behind, this latter cried out impulsively, "Tell Mrs. Clemens I want to hug her--I want to hug you both! [5]
A large, round stage, encircled by a fence of young birch logs, had been built for dancing amid the leafy lindens, and stood directly opposite to the imperial tent. [10]
Mr. Meeker's cringing soul responded, and in a month Honora was the leading spirit of the class, led the marches, and was pointed out by the little dancing master as all that a lady should be in deportment and bearing. [9]
Next, we see somebody coming, and started to meet him; but we heard Jim shout, and looked around and he was fairly dancing, and making signs, and yelling. [5]
Just now there seems to be an epidemic of rhyming as bad as the dancing mania, or the sweating sickness. [6]
Besides, you've got Scripture warrant for dancing off the heads of people. [4]
If Jean had said that he had met a periwinkle dancing a hornpipe with an oyster she would have muttered heavily "Think of that! [11]
From the dancing room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade Natasha to sing. [2]
She could not resist going to the window and smiling at them, though they appeared but dimly--little dancing figures in a mist. [9]
It is a rather heavy attempt to be light-hearted; its playfulness suggests that of a dancing bear. [5]
This night they quartered with Powhatan, and were liberally feasted, and entertained with singing, dancing, and orations. [4]
No matador ever played with the horns of a mad bull as Ferrol played his deadly game with Michael, the dancing bear. [11]
I got one out of that dancing crowd who has been serious enough for me. [4]
Of course its origin, like all dancing, was religious. [4]
But in one or two houses there was dancing, and, as he passed, Valmond heard the chansons of the humble games they played--primitive games, primitive chansons: "In my right hand I hold a rose-bush, Which will bloom, Manon lon la! [11]
A lame man's opinion of dancing is not good for much. [6]
The dancing went on with unabated zeal, and through the open door in the fainting azure of the sky the summer moon hung above the hills like a great yellow orange. [9]
Seeing Guida seated on the veille, she came in quickly, her dancing dark eyes heralding great news. [11]
I look down on that people dancing there, quiet and still, and I hear some laugh at me, and now and then some one say a good word to me that make me shut my hands tight, so the tears not come to my eyes. [11]
Each and all of the young men there would, meseemed, gladly have stepped into Herdegen's place, and she was so fully taken up with dancing that she could scarce mark how diligently all the mothers and maidens overlooked her. [10]
In the middle of the Stanley Street bridge she stopped to lean against the wet rail; the mill lights were scattered, dancing points of fire over the invisible swift waters, and she raised her eyes presently to the lights themselves, seeking one unconsciously--Ditmar's! [9]
In the middle of the room a short handsome general with a red face was dancing the trepak with much spirit and agility. [2]
The weird voice of the old woman was exciting in itself, and we could not escape the image of this unknown man, dancing about this region without any medicine, fleeing perchance by night and alone, and finally flitting away down the Gut of Canso. [4]
In and out of my early memories like a dancing ray of sunlight flits the spirit of Nancy. [9]
We lived constantly, of course, in diplomatic and Austrian society, and during the latter part of the time particularly his house was as much frequented and the centre of as many dancing and other receptions as any in the place. [6]
This celebrated incident occurred in the new ballroom at the top of the new house of young Mrs. Hayden, where the meetings of the dancing class were held weekly. [9]
Dancing, however, is not the leading occupation at Bar Harbor, it is rather neglected. [4]
As she did not smell any sulphur fumes nor see any dancing flames when she peeped out from under her half-closed lids, she gathered sufficient courage to look about her. [10]
The Emperor was not dancing, he stood in the doorway, stopping now one pair and now another with gracious words which he alone knew how to utter. [2]
The dancing had not begun yet. [5]
About midnight the noises dulled away, and I was sinking to sleep, when I heard a new and curious sound; I listened: evidently some joyous lunatic was softly dancing a "double shuffle" in the room over my head. [5]
To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes. [5]
When we came near the chamber, I said to him, 'You will tell the Intendant that a lady of some gifts in dancing would entertain his guests; but she must come and go without exchange of individual courtesies, at her will. [11]
This, creeping into my senses, helped me to remember that the last thing I saw in the Intendant's courtyard was a burning torch, which suddenly multiplied to dancing hundreds and then went out. [11]
When at last my name was called and I rose to receive my diploma it seemed as though my incompetency had been proclaimed to the world... That evening I stood in the narrow gallery of the flag-decked gymnasium and watched Nancy dancing with Ralph. [9]
I looked at my friend--to my great surprise he seemed intoxicated with pleasure, his eyes were dancing with eager delight. [5]
Into my heart, my dear, you flashed your way, Your rosy, golden way: a fairy horn Proclaimed you dancing light and roundelay;-- I thank my generous Fates that you were born One lofty joyous day. [11]
The dancing frenzy must have seized upon her while she was dressing; for she was in her bodice, bare-armed, her hair floating unbound far below the waist of her barred or banded skirt. [6]
And since something must be done, as there are only six nights for dancing in the week, on the off mornings there are champagne and fruit parties on the lawn. [4]
She moved forward more swiftly to the time of the lively dancing tune which the city pipers were playing. [10]
Were there not moonlight evenings when they sat silent and musing on the stone steps, watching the shadows and the dancing gleams on the swift river, when the air was fragrant with the pink and the lilac? [4]
His particularly free manner of dancing even surprised them all. [2]
He would have liked greatly to know whether she referred to his hasty purchase of Hester, or to his rashness in dancing with her at her party the winter before. [9]
I was dancing last night at 1.30 o'clock. [5]
She had eagerly lamented it, and in doing so deplored the fact that she would never be permitted to share the pleasure of dancing with the man she loved and who had first taught her how beautiful life was. [10]
Nor were amusements lacking--notices of balls, dancing this evening, and ten-cent shows in palaces of legerdemain and deformity. [4]
But the sea itself, untamed, restless, shining, dancing, raging, rolls in from the southward, tossing the white sails on its vast expanse, green, blue, leaden, white-capped, many-colored, never two minutes the same, sounding with its eternal voice I knew not what rebuke to man. [4]
When she came it was spring-time, and all the world was budding, exuding joy and hope, with the sun dancing over all. [11]
But when it is necessary to be nimble, the knight has his dancing dress also. [10]
He was ushered into a library where the shades were already drawn, where a-white-clothed tea-table was set before the fire, the red rays dancing on the silver tea-kettle. [9]
Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness. [2]
Elsie was alone in the room, dancing one of those wild Moorish fandangos, such as a matador hot from the Plaza de Toros of Seville or Madrid might love to lie and gaze at. [6]
And then music in the big house, or perhaps a ride afield to greet the neighbours, and fiddling and dancing in the two big quarters, Hank's and Johnson's, when the tables were cleared after the bountiful feast Mr. Carvel was wont to give them. [9]
Prince Andrew was in and Boris was shown into a large hall probably formerly used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. [2]
Presently, dancing began in a paddock just across the road from the house; and when Madame Lavilette saw that Mr. Ferrol gave such undisguised countenance to the primitive rejoicings, she encouraged the revellers and enlarged her hospitality, sending down hampers of eatables. [11]
Heated by dancing, in a dress-coat, with a thin white necktie, I went out into the night air. [10]
It seemed as if the wild surges of a sea were roaring in his ears, and glittering sparks were dancing before his yearning, watchful eyes. [10]
Down-stairs just now I saw a dancing lesson going on. [5]
The bear, a huge brown animal, upright on his hind legs, was dancing sideways along the road, keeping time to the lazy notes of his leader's voice. [11]
I will tell him myself, and you'll listen at the door," and Natasha ran across the drawing room to the dancing hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord with his face in his hands. [2]
Chancing to pass her as the evening wore on, I saw her in conversation with Mrs. Falchion, who had dismissed her cavalier, preferring to talk, she said, for dancing was tiresome work on the Indian Ocean. [11]
She could not help dancing, though it should be her death. [10]
As to Herdegen, he meanwhile had greeted Ann with great courtesy; nevertheless he had kept close to the dancing wench, and took upon himself to tie her bonds and lead her to the dungeon cell. [10]
Shortly after Mrs. Hayden had built that palatial house (which had a high fence around its grounds and a driveway leading to a porte-cochere) and had given her initial ball, the dancing class began. [9]
The beautiful singer has suffered from the gagliarde, which she had the honour of dancing with you; she is lying ill of a fever. [10]
Natasha was perfectly happy; she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. [2]

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