In all the movement of the overture the two dancers merely touched the tips of each other's fingers, and when the solemn measure came to a close the President slid across the floor in one graceful, immense pirouette, handing the lady who confronted him, bent nearly to the ground, into her seat.

He used the stick to direct the rooster, which kept time first with one foot and then the other to a tune whistled by its owner, ending with a triple pirouette that was superb.

He spread out the skirts of his gaberdine and pirouetted between the lines of tethered horses.

With these words, Mr. Roundjacket executed a pirouette upon his rheumatic leg, which caused him to fall back in his chair, making the most extraordinary faces, which we can compare to nothing but the contortions of a child who bites a crab-apple by mistake.

overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset^; culbute^; revulsion; pirouette.

Rotation N. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation^, circumvolution, circumgyration^; volutation^, circination^, turbination^, pirouette, convolution.

V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve^; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.

La Soule, La Pirouette, &c.Small Games for Private Society.

La Soule, La Pirouette, &c.Small Games for Private Society.

He made a pirouette and stamped his stick playfully.

" The Professor looked up as Bambi pirouetted around the beds, waving a fluttering white sheet in good melodrama style.

He executed a marvelous pirouette and returned instantly, calling out, "Less spooning in the corners if you pleaseor if it's got to be, let me in!"

At the sound of his voice, she checked herself and pirouetted with a thistle-down lightness to face him.

Miss Crilly performed a pirouette.

She was attired as a goddess, and goddesses' gowns are somewhat of the shortest, and their legs rather au naturel; but when she came to elicit universal admiration by pointing her toe, and revolving in the slow pirouette, Lucy, from the situation in which she sat was overpowered with shame at the effect; and whilst Lady Gayland, with her longnette fixed on the stage, ejaculated, 'Beautiful! inimitable!'

The faded dead leaves that had once been green and young sprang up, raced one another, leapt, danced and pirouetted, and then something large struck him on the neck, stayed for a startling moment, and drove past him up the avenue.

But however sprightly and deftly did this charmer pirouette, she could not deny herself the luxury of appearing as a regular actress.

ho!' he continued, with a comical pirouette of triumph, 'he laughs best who laughs last.

I swerve, I dance, I caracoleI pirouette on a wing tip, catching my side slips on the rudder as one plays cup and ball.

I should not have been surprised to see her pirouette over the hills or take to flying.

The shadows took the forms of rabbits, swans, foxes, elephants, fairies, sailors with wooden legs, old women who smoked pipes, ballet-girls who pirouetted, anglers who bobbed for fish, twirling harlequins, and the profiles of eminent statesmenall made with two hands and, at the most, the help of a tiny stick or piece of string.

A few days later the world of rank and fashion flocked to see the début of the danseuse whose fame had been trumpeted abroad; and as Lola pirouetted on to the stagethe focus of a thousand pairs of eyesshe felt that the crowning moment of her life had come.

and, catching her yellow skirt with her fingers, she pirouetted before the astounded man, and ended in a pose.

"Why not next to Napoleon the First, who was a still greater conqueror?" "But no dancer, Monsieur!" replied the ex-god Scamander, with a kind of half pirouette; "whereas the Grand Monarque was the finest dancer of his epoch.

"We shan't have to wear a stitch underneath," Lady Betty announced decidedly, while she pirouetted before a cheval glassthey were all in Lady Anningford's roomwith some stuff draped round her childish form.