" "What makes you so polite to that dance-hall girl?" muttered the Boy aside.

The second instance of the extraordinary effect of music is related of a dancing-master of Alais, in the province of Languedoc.

Besides the productions of nature that I have mentioned, I procured some specimens of their cloth, a few light toys, a lady's turban decorated with cantharides, a pair of slippers with heavy metallic soles, which are used there for walking in a strong wind, and by the dancing girls to prevent their jumping too high.

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One autumn this child came to her mother and said: "Mamma, I'd like to go to dancing-school.

The tower seemed quiet and altogether deserted; all I could hear was the dance-music away in the hall.

We were shown one large room that was occasionally used as a dancing-hall; another that was used as a chapel, with natural pulpit and crosses and pews, sermons in every stone, where a priest had said mass.

The age of one that was felled in the Calaveras Grove, for the sake of having its stump for a dancing-floor, was about 1300 years, and its diameter, measured across the stump, 24 feet inside the bark.

The carriage rolled away; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing lesson.

Frances Martin, the last girl one would have named, had taught a dancing class in her home town with great success and she volunteered to lead Bob.

The house was blazing with lights, upstairs and down; there was an unmistakable air of revelry about it; faintly the music of a new dance tune, violin and piccolo and piano, crept out into the night.

To reform is to know something of the conditions which produce the slumsit is not to scatter the slum-people broadcast elsewhere in the town; it is not alone to give them baths, playgrounds, circulating libraries of books and pictures, dancing-parties, and social clubs.

He lay back on the sleeping-bench with dancing eyes, while the raw whisky hummed in his head.

She ran around the room, humming to herself and every once in a while doing a little dance step as she realized that they were at last to embark upon their adventure.

Hour after hour she sat motionless, her hands folded listlessly in her lap, looking out over the dancing waves.

A story is told of a gouty and crooked old queen, who sighed with longing regret to think that her young dancing-days were gone, so: "Of rosmaryn she took six pownde, And grounde it well in a stownde,"

And then her father was there: and he was an Italian boy, and played the organ and Lancelot was a dancing dog, and stood up and danced to the tune of 'C'est l'amour, l'amour, l'amour,' pitifully enough, in his red coatand she stood up and danced too; but she found her fox-fur dress insufficient, and begged hard for a paper frillwhich was denied her:

The very pieces of bread seemed to be on fire, there was a dancing flame over the butter, and each bit of meat or other food Joe and the performers lifted on their forks was alive with leaping fire.

The words of the tune are the old words "La illaha illallah," set to an air endeared from centuries past to the desert-roving Bedawin, and long after distance has dulled the tread of the dancing feet the plaintive notes of the refrain reach you upon the night breeze.

"Look, what pretty dancing shoes!" said the old soldier.

He knew very well that the Emperor would not delay; that he would use every minute to strengthen his position; that he would compel events, not dance attendance on them.

When Kelly was gone to practise on his accordion,he had opened a dancing academy at Fa'a,the octogenarian asked me if I had read of the recent achievements of the scientists who were making the old young.

The dancing Dervishes, for instance would occupy quite as much space as both of these sets that are walking before us, and I believe it is now generally admitted that all good dancing needs room for the legs.

It would have been hard indeed to imagine a huge and ferocious bear appearing among such cultivation, although the valley still retains its ancient name, signifying that it was once the resort of these animals; but a "dancing bear" is the only specimen of the race seen about there now.

The seaman continued to pull with his left hand, but he pointed with his right over the slate-coloured dancing waters.