"Dance music" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the evening, that lady played dance music in a florid manner, resembling her taste in dress. The younger children had gone home, and the hall was filled with ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... tip-toes. She played without looking at her notes, her face turned towards the drawing-room, smiling and animated, her eyes lighted up and her cheeks flushed with the excitement of the dance; like a little girl playing dance music for other people and moving about herself as she watches them. She swung her shoulders, her form swayed as though she were being guided along, while her whole body marked the rhythm and her attitude seemed to indicate the step she was dancing. Then she turned towards the piano again ...
— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
... going to give you a dance, and git you acquainted with folks. You needn't to hang back—I've told everybody it was in your honor, and that you played the vi'lin swell, and we'd have some real music. And I've sent to Chinook for the dance music—harp, two fiddles, and a coronet—and you ain't going to stall the hull thing now. I didn't mean to tell you till the last minute, but you've got to have time to mate up your mind you'll go to a public dance for oncet in your life. It ain't going to hurt you none. I've went, ever sence ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... the world," observed the baron, "can not be set to dance music. The domain of your obedient admirer, Malfalconnet, on the contrary, obeys solely the heart throbs in this loyal breast; and if you, fairest of women, will allow yourself to be satisfied with so small a realm of sovereignty, it is at your disposal, together with these tolerably agile ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... entertains Madame at the Quirinal. Massenet at Petit Val, the Moultons' country seat. Maximilian's death in Mexico. Mechanical piano dance music, a substitute for Waldteufel; Madame takes a turn. Melody, tears, and a "speech" in Rochester's "pen". Merimee, Prosper, "entrancing"; his long love affair. Metternich, Prince, Austrian ambassador to France; ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
... unutterably miserable; and it was all he could do to keep himself at times from whirling about in waltz tune. But then the nearest boat had a piano on board, and some one was constantly playing dance music. Gilray had an idea that it would have been the proper thing to leave Molesey when she said "No;" and he would have done so had not the barbel-fishing been so good. The barbel-fishing was altogether unfortunate—at least Gilray's passion for it was. I have thought—and so sometimes ...
— My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke • J. M. Barrie
... fell, the band struck up some dance music and the audience were treated to 'something light,' and roared with laughter at a pretty chambermaid at an inn who captivated and bamboozled a young booby who was staying there, pitched him overboard; 'wondered what he meant;' sang an audacious song recounting ...
— Clara Hopgood • Mark Rutherford |
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