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...ightly wrapped them around her, his embrace as awkward as an inexperienced dancer's. "Thank you," she whispered against him. Tyler couldn't speak, sil... ...hing it up and making their own fun as the bride and groom had their first dance. The band on stage, dressed in some ugly powder-blue suits with shiny... ...hey did not look too happy about their little girl's nuptials. Back to the dance floor where Tyler and Dagny were executing some mean ballroom steps t... ...plunging back a giggling Dagny until her chignon brushed the highly buffed dance floor. Polite applause of approval abounded from the more civilized, ... ...ody that will go to pot because I refuse to give in to the plastic surgery craze and cut into one of God's greatest creations. This sistah-ho is going...

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...lar people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female dancer, at a certain turn of a peculiar dance, could not—though she had die... ...Who, if not myself? But it happened, on the contrary, that I had a perfect craze for being despised. I doted on it, and considered contempt a sort of ... ...der will find a singular instance in the foot note attached, that the same crazes are everlastingly revolv- ing upon men. 2 This hypothesis, however, ... ...ity of reades, meantime, at this day, Lord M. is memorable chiefly for his craze about the degeneracy of us poor moderns, when compared with the men o... ...of us poor moderns, when compared with the men of pagan an- tiquity; which craze itself might possibly not have been gen- erally known, except in conn... ...pavilion about it—wore an elegant and festal air; the part allotted to the dancers being fenced off by a gilded lattice work, and ornamented beautiful... ...fecting, as the spectacle of men and women floating through the mazes of a dance; under 171 Autobiographic Sketches these conditions, however, that t... ...that the music shall be rich, reso- nant, and festal, the execution of the dancers perfect, and the dance itself of a character to admit of free, flue... ...es, &c., which have for so many years banished the truly beautiful country dances native to England. Those whose taste and sensibility were so defecti...

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...ing except what concerns keeping him clean and comfortable; in this I will dance attendance on him readily; but to expect me to draw sword, even again... ...e on this palace—and I wish I saw the dogs eating it for leading us such a dance.” “Speak respectfully of what belongs to my lady, Sancho,” said Don Q... ...calling in seeking adventures, of which he was informed there was an abun- dance in that neighbourhood, where he hoped to employ his time 114 Don Qui... ...e tries to get in to reach the grass that covers the soil. He has provided dancers too, not only sword but also bell-dancers, for in his own town ther... ...are those who ring the changes and jingle the bells to perfection; of shoe-dancers I say nothing, for of them he has engaged a host. But none of these... ...n have such power in it as to have changed my master’s right senses into a craze so full of absurdity! O senor, senor, for God’s sake, consider yourse... ...nifest were they published by themselves and not as mere ad- juncts to the crazes of Don Quixote or the simplicities of Sancho. Therefore in this Seco... ...s could be deprived of this pleasure; but that was impossible, because the crazes and shrewd sayings of Don Quixote and the humours of his squire Sanc... ...same village 396 Don Quixote – Part II as Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose craze and folly make all of us who know him feel pity for him, and I am one...

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...f the squire’s loquacity and impertinence; but in the main, apart from his craze, he is little more than a thoughtful, cultured gentleman, with instin... ...umourist was not looked upon as a humourist at all in his own country. The craze of Don Quixote seems, in some instances, to have com- municated itsel... ...e had earned one. These reflections made him waver in his purpose, but his craze being stronger than any reasoning, he made up his mind to have himsel... ...an to fall. The landlord told all the people who were in the inn about the craze of his guest, the watching of the armour, and the dubbing ceremony he... ... to be found on earth. “So, so!” said the curate, “are there giants in the dance? By the sign of the Cross I will burn them to-morrow before the day o... ...nday, all I care is Thou shouldst see me in my best. No account I make of dances, Or of strains that pleased thee so, Keeping thee awake from midnig... ...d when he told me, I declared that nothing should be done except in accor- dance with the wishes of Zoraida, who now came back with a little trunk so ... ...uld attract more people, and get more credit, by producing plays in accor- dance with the rules of art, than by absurd ones, they are so thor- oughly ... ...ing except what concerns keeping him clean and comfortable; in this I will dance attendance on him readily; but to expect me to draw sword, even again...

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...be put upon. He had one of them on a string and he was going to lead him a dance. There was courage, too, in it, since he believed himself fallen unaw... ... meant, re- ally,” continued Mr. Travers, “was that she is the victim of a craze. Society is subject to crazes, as you know very well. They are not re... ...re not reprehensible in them- selves, but the worst of my wife is that her crazes are never like those of the people with whom she natu- rally associa... ...r peevish, but had a distinct note of indulgence. “My dear d’Alcacer, that craze has got such a hold of her that she would tell you any sort of tale. ... ...,” were Mr. Travers’ first words. “I hope you understand that it is a mere craze. You can’t help seeing that. Look at her costume. She simply has lost... ...r. Travers addressed his wife first. “You were always laughing at people’s crazes,” was what he said, “and now you have a craze of your own. But we wo... ...ne eye exposed. On the flank of the armed men Sentot was performing a slow dance but he, too, seemed to have gone dumb. “Now go,” breathed out Rajah H... ...ll which lies on this side of our common grave. They lead a sort of ritual dance, that most of us have agreed to take seriously. It is a very binding ...

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...ren would be happier, If they were taught to vary. “The notion soon became a craze; And, when it once began, she Brought us all out in different ways ... ...frenzy, and for many a day They paced from morn to eve the crowded town, And danced the night away. I asked the cause: the aged man grew sad: They poi... ...h spoonful. There comes a happy pause, for human strength Will not endure to dance without cessation; And every one must reach the point at length Of ... ...nd floors. And One (we name him not) that flies the flowers, That dreads the dances, and that shuns the salads, They doom to pass in solitude the hour... ...day Rest your old bones, ye wrinkled crones! The kettle sings, the firelight dances. Deep be it quaffed, the magic draught That fills the soul with go...

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...ed herself superbly. After the dinner at the Longmores, she went on to the dance—a little late—and encountered Bremmil with Mrs. Hauksbee on his arm. ... ...sbee on his arm. That made her flush, and as the men crowded round her for dances she looked magnificent. She filled up all her dances except three, a... ... breakfast. Mrs. Hauksbee did her best to hold him in play, but, after two dances, he crossed over to his wife and asked for a dance. 13 Rudyard Kipl... ...mmil,” she said, with her eyes twinkling. Then he begged her to give him a dance, and, as a great favor, she allowed him the fifth waltz. Luckily 5 st... ...allowed him the fifth waltz. Luckily 5 stood vacant on his programme. They danced it together, and there was a little flutter round the room. Bremmil ... ...iceroys, when they first come out, pass through the “Dip- lomatic Secrecy” craze. It wears off in time; but they all catch it in the beginning, becaus...

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...on’ except in the vulgar sense of an angry paroxysm. He durst as soon have danced a hornpipe on the top of the ‘monument’ as have talked of a ‘rapturo... ...ome chiefly from a class of busy people who care very little for ancestral crazes. Latin they have heard of, and some of them know it as a good sort o... ...t, each country as it grew polished at some cost of strength, carried this craze to a dangerous excess—danger- ous as all things false are dangerous, ... ...a, and of elaborate pantomime in the performer. Saltavit Hypermnestram, he danced (that is, he represented by dancing and pantomime the story of) Hype... ...d ruined the music). Finally, 5th, I am satisfied that Milton meant him to dance. The office of the chorus was imperfectly defined upon the Greek stag... ...iphonies should be sung, and another said. That he was also com- pelled to dance, I am satisfied. The chorus only sometimes moralized, but it always d... ...lized, but it always danced: and any actor, mingling with the chorus, must dance also. A little incident occurs to my remembrance, from the Moscow exp...

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...one more eager. She was noticeable equally in the class- room grind and at dances, though out of the three hun- dred students of Blodgett, scores reci... ...ve up library 13 Sinclair Lewis work to become one of the young women who dance in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Stud... ...ut shoes and diet. And never did she feel that she was living. She went to dances and suppers at the houses of col- lege acquaintances. Sometimes she ... ...ldore, Carol. Come on now, folks, shake a leg. Let’s have some stunts or a dance or something.” She did not have another word with Dr. Kennicott until... ...ice: “Well, this is so nice to have you here. We’ll have some good parties—dances and everything. You’ll have to join the Jolly Seventeen. We play bri... ...ding from the city hall: “Oh, so Mrs. Mott has got you going on her school craze! 139 Sinclair Lewis She’s been dinging at that till everybody’s sick...

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...gainst the walls, Chichikov folded his arms, and carefully scrutinised the dancers. Some of the ladies were dressed well and in the fashion, while the... ...med to have been compounded of blood and milk, while health 78 Dead Souls danced in his every feature. “Ha, ha, ha!” he cried with a gesture of aston... .... For instance, they will decline to have folly called wisdom, or any tune danced to but their own. Always, however, will there become manifest in the... ...hat hitherto they have denied, and call what is foolish sensible, and even dance—yes, better than any one else will do—to a tune set by some one else.... ... so attractively did the idea of the two hundred thousand roubles begin to dance before his imagination that he felt a twinge of self-reproach because... ...e and the discomfort of one’s nightly halting- places, and the futility of crazes and the falseness of tricks by which one human being deceives anothe...

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...amily in the middle class. A pleasant, hospitable woman, with a harm- less craze for the small lions of literary society; a rather dull man, doing his... ...nds. They said that Charles Strickland had become infatuated with a French dancer, whom he had first seen in the ballet at the Empire, and had accompa... ...at Cambridge, and it was with a little laugh that she spoke of the rush of dances to which her daughter , just out, was invited. I suppose I said a ve... ...gtry and Mary Anderson. He read Punch and the Sport- ing Times. He went to dances in Hampstead. It matters less that for so long I should have lost si... ...chols sat 187 Somerset Maugham a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music. Round the room people were sitting at table, here half a dozen... ... women wore nothing but a shift. Now and then two sailors would get up and dance together . The noise was deafening. People were singing, shouting, la...

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...ndered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sought in vain to dance a quadrille, eight men of us together, to the music ... ...fellows, who loved to cut capers in private life; but as soon as they were arranged for the dance, they conducted themselves like so many mutes at a f... ... pushed so far; and as this was not expected, the quadrille was soon whistled down, and the dancers departed under a cloud. Eight Frenchmen, even eigh... ...nd then answered with conviction, ‘Yes, a privilege.’ That night I was summoned by ‘Merrily danced the Quake’s wife’ into the companion of Steerage No... ...like an open pit. Below, on the first landing, and lighted by another lamp, lads and lasses danced, not more than three at a time for lack of space, i... ...I’m never happy without a job on hand. And I’m stout; I can eat a’most anything. You see no craze about me.’ This tale of a drunken wife was parallele...

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...ophy, is really to bid a pumpkin caper. As much as legs are wanted for the dance, Philosophy is required to make our human nature credible and accepta... ...mighty struggle splendidly ended; and truly could it be said that all Erin danced to meet him; but this was the pick of the dancing, past dispute the ... ... do. Who wouldn’t?’ said he frankly. ‘She crossed the Channel expressly to dance here tonight at the public Ball in honour of you.’ ‘Where she appears... ...fever must have gone. You do look a dash pale, my own; you’re tired.’ ‘One dance has tired me. Why were you so late?’ ‘T o give the others a chance? T... ...or Emmy, when Mr. Mayor informed me it was the duty of every Irishwoman to dance her toes off, if she ‘d be known for what she is. And twirl! a man ha... ...rve. Service to himself and his relatives affected him. He deferred to her craze for The Crossways, and they lived in a larger London house, ‘up to th... ...e, where he respected, he was a governed man, free of the common masculine craze to scale fortresses for the sake of lowering flags. Whilst under his ...

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...f the squire’s loquacity and impertinence; but in the main, apart from his craze, he is little more than a thoughtful, cultured gentleman, with instin... ...umourist was not looked upon as a humourist at all in his own country. The craze of Don Quixote seems, in some instances, to have com- municated itsel... ...e had earned one. These reflections made him waver in his purpose, but his craze being stronger than any rea- soning, he made up his mind to have hims... ...an to fall. The landlord told all the people who were in the inn about the craze of his guest, the watching of the armour, and the dubbing ceremony he... ...e that uttered it, and from both figure and lan- guage at once guessed the craze of their owner; they wished, how- ever, to learn quietly what was the... ... to be found on earth. “So, so!” said the curate, “are there giants in the dance? By the sign of the Cross I will burn them to-morrow before the day o... ...nday, all I care is Thou shouldst see me in my best. No account I make of dances, Or of strains that pleased thee so, Keeping thee awake from midnig... ...d when he told me, I declared that nothing should be done except in accor- dance with the wishes of Zoraida, who now came back with a little trunk so ... ...uld attract more people, and get more credit, by producing plays in accor- dance with the rules of art, than by absurd ones, they are so thor- oughly ...

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...ering before men’s eyes a thaumaturgic versatility such as that of a rope- dancer, or of an Indian juggler, in petty accomplishments,— was a mode of t... ... the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op- pression amongst the Hindoos. My uncl... ...ywhere a most superficial account. I said so; and my uncle, who had an old craze in behalf of the book, opposed me with asperity; and, in the course o... ...incipal servant, whom, perhaps, you seldom or never saw; the actual atten- dance upon yourself being performed by one of his depu- ties; and to this d... ...elism with the monotony and slight compass of human ideas. As the symbolic dancers of the ancients, who narrated an elaborate story, Saltando Hecubam,... ...that age, were arrang- ing themselves for one of the magnificent Hungarian dances, which the emperor’s court at Vienna had transplanted to the camp of... ...present, perhaps, the very hands were now visibly displayed for the coming dance, which in a few days, or even hours (so rapid were the movements at t...

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...t; plentiful din- ners, country excursions, stout menagerie bars, music, a dance, and to bed: he was for patting, stroking, petting the mob, for tossi... ...imates who know as well as hear: but it was amiably and trippingly, on the dance of the wine in his veins. 21 George Meredith His look, however, was ... ...egard to the female, sir: I confess, my scheme does not include them. They dance; that is a healthy exer- cise. One has only to say, that it does not ... ...sed head from the notes he was pencilling upon letters perused. ‘Skepsey’s craze: regeneration of the English race by box- ing—nucleus of a national a... ...n the solitary twirling spangled lovely Fairy. The tale of a delicate lady dancer leaping as the kernel out of a nut from the arms of Harlequin to the... ...e sweep of greensward, all but touching up to the sunset to draw it to the dance. Formerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing w... ... the colouring of history. He touched the elbow, showed a flitting face of crazed amazement in amusement, and shrugged and half-laughed, dismissing th...

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...ousewife’s remedy of a good shaking for the invalid who will not arise and dance away his gout, partly illustrates the action of the Press upon the co... ...ho knew not they were lesser Andromedas of his dear Andromeda country, but danced and chatted and were gay, and said they were sure he would defend th... ...e, in reply to commendations of his nephew: ‘Nevil’s leak is his political craze, and that seems to be go- ing: I hope it is. You can’t rear a man on ... ...ch, you will understand his feelings. But though he admired fervently, and danced obediently to her tunes, Nevil could not hear injustice done to a pe... ...spoke, and was like the magical piper: she was compelled to follow him and dance the round again, with the wretched thought that it must resemble coqu... ... the book of women.’ The grandeur of the decayed sea-city, where folly had danced Parisianly of old, spread brooding along the waters in morning light... ...ink she does, colonel. Marriage ‘ll cure the fellow. Nevil will slough his craze. Off! old coat. Cissy will drive him in strings. “My wife!” I hear hi... ...e woman: I would not change her against the best in the land. She has this craze about Nevil. I suppose she’ll never get over it. But there it is: and... ...do you think?’ he said. She did not answer intelligibly. He walked up. The crazed gabbling tongue had entire possession of the house, and rang through...

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... bewitchingly pretty and graceful, wear very short skirts, 125 Balzac and dance a Spanish dance, and possibly they may carry off the piece with the p... ...to- morrow, for I have put my initials to a terrific attack on a couple of dancers under the protection of two Generals. I am giving it them hot and s... ...ortune! If we had not met to-day, you see, at Flicoteaux’s, you might have danced attendance on the booksellers for another three years, or starved li... ...Suddenly the door was flung open, and T ullia, one of the prettiest opera- dancers of the day, dashed into the room. “They agree to take the hundred c... ...terfly as thou art. There will be no professional jealousies, as you are a dancer; and as to beauty, you have all of you too much sense to show jealou... ...thinks that Nathan’s success will injure his own forthcoming book. It is a craze with these little minds to fancy that there is not room for two succe... ...rthez. “Do you think me a base poltroon? No, d’Arthez; no, I am a boy half crazed with love,” and he told his story. “Let us look at the article,” sai...

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...echoes to the de- parting steps of invaders. She mingled not in the festal dances at Vaucouleurs which celebrated in rapture the redemption of France.... ...the unicorn, than are to the same pretensions in the lion our many popular crazes about his good- ness and magnanimity, or the old fancy (adopted by S... ...“But where,” and I turned to our own crew—“Where are the lovely women that danced beneath the awning of flowers and clus- tering corymbi? Whither have... ...owers and clus- tering corymbi? Whither have fled the noble young men that danced with them?” Answer there was none. But suddenly the man at the mast-...

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...atch over his con- nections with women. M. le Chevalier says that an opera dancer often costs less than a court lady. Obtain informa- tion on that poi... ...where there are mar- riageable daughters, fair but portionless partners at dances, and young married women who find that time hangs heavy on their han... ...opera girl is an almost mythical being. As things are now at the theatres, dancers and actresses are about as amusing as a declaration of the rights o... ...box at the Vaudeville; an angel while she criticised the postures of opera dancers with the experience of an elderly habitue of le coin de la reine; a... ... It was all that he could say, so overcome was he. He cried, he could have danced; but he was afraid of losing his senses, and refrained. “Between us,... ...elaxed in favor of the greenhouse and garden. “The garden was the master’s craze,” Mlle. Cadot used to say. The master’s blind fondness for Joseph was... ... Mlle. Cadot used to say. The master’s blind fondness for Joseph was not a craze in her eyes; she shared the father’s predilection; she pampered Josep...