"She's a good dancer and a good amateur actress, and she is controlling herself as she would on a ballroom floor, and remembering the spectators as she would on the stage.

I see, Laura, that you are still a member of the Arm and Hammer band, and I wish to mention in passing that the only ten or twelve thousand dollars' worth of jewelry you ever had you returned to the property man every night after the ballroom scene.'

As he reached the landing he saw that the ballroom doors were open and all the lustres lit.

All night long she had scolded herself for the way she had "behaved" and let the "forest creature" behaveholding her hand, and sitting as close to her on the gallery stairs as if they were engaged in a desperate ballroom flirtation.

He had a large room for a ballroom, because in the ballroom science and politics were discussed; for where a press is not free, salons must give the tone to public opinion.

Well, and the satin, tooit's not quite the thing, cut ballroom style, very lowyou understand?

I walked into that ballroom thinking of nothing, and there you wereall the rest of the room like a sort of shrine for you.

" He assumed a mock extravagance, and went on: "I am no attic singer, no ballroom warbler.

We are like children in the rain, flattening our noses against a ballroom window.'

Just before reaching the ballroom wing, we paused in front of a small brick outbuilding to have a few appropriate shivers over what was under it.

No ballroom belle ever was enveloped by brighter tinted fabrics than the silks, satins, brocades and velvets that were worn by the dignified Hindu gentlemen at this wedding, and their jewels were such as our richest women wear.

Sheila wondered just as any débutante in a city ballroom wonders, whether she would have partners, whether she would have "a good time."

Good judges inform us that the ballroom ceiling at Burford Priory is one of the finest examples of old work of the kind anywhere to be seen.

He never was quite clear about those first ten minutes of his ballroom experience.