39 Metaphors for dances

An autumn leaf dance in October is the prettiest kind of one to have.

Major Ridgeley was spoken to, and it was understood that the next dance would be a waltz, which had never before been more than named in a Yankee ball-room, on the Reserve; and it was anticipated with curiosity, not unmixed with horror, by many.

Beulah was a dream; the Yellow House was a dream, the dance was a dream, the partner was a dream.

The question was rather, "Where is the dance to be tonight?" because we knew to a certainty that there would be one somewhere, and wished only to know whether the house in which it was to be held had a ceiling high enough to insure the safety of our heads.

If the first step in each bar be not strongly marked, the valse measure has no chance of making itself apparent; and the dance becomes a meaningless galop.

" The dance was an enjoyable affair, and, at any rate for the time, dispersed the depression which had hung over the party from Wynford.

By day the tourney was held, at night the mazy dance was trod by quaint maskers.

Her dance was the upaupa, the national dance of Tahiti, the same movement generally as that of Temanu, but without voice and more skilled.

The dance selected by his partner was "A Successful Campaign," then in high favor, and the French officers took the instruments from the musicians and played while he danced the first figure.

The second dance was a repetition of Dave's pleasure.

It is affirmed that the punishments which the Africans undergo, are less severe than the military; that their life is happier than that of the English peasant; that they have the advantages of manumission; that they have their little spots of ground, their holy-days, their dances; in short, that their life is a scene of festivity and mirth, and that they are much happier in the colonies than in their own country.

Am told that the "Back from France" fancy-dress dance at Widelands House, in honour of Captain Lord Widelands, was a huge success.

Their dances and feasts are not amusements.

The regular French dance was a basse dance, called the gaillarde; it was accompanied by the sound of the hautbois and tambourine, and originally it was danced with great form and state.

[Dances] Look at me, here's an example for you!

The Romaïc dance, peculiar to the modern Greeks, is an inheritance from their ancestors.

DANCE, GEORGE, English architect; was architect to the City of London, and designed the Mansion House, his chief work (1700-1768).

Such a dance is a questioning bee, a collision of wits on the part of two really facetious Indians.

The dance is a species of Spanish dance, I fancy, for it is done with two scarfs of red and yellow; I purchased the stuff a year ago from a Dutch peddler, and Miranda begged it of me last week.

But your coming has created no end of excitement and this dance will be our red-letter day for a long time to come.

The dance was such fun, a bal blanc, as only young people were asked, and they all come without chaperones, so sensible, and all seemed to have a lovely romp, and enjoy themselves in a far, far greater degree than we do.

A "mask and shadow dance" is as important a function to girls of Sadie's and Rosie's class as a cotillion is to girls of your class.

This dance was the first moment of the evening I had enjoyed.

The next dance was a quadrille, and he saw that the space after that was also vacant; so he boldly wrote down his name for both.

The medicine dance is a sacred rite, in honor of the souls of the dead; the mysteries of this dance are kept inviolable; its secrets have never been divulged by its members.

39 Metaphors for  dances