178 examples of quadrille in sentences

I'm sure no one would ever suspect it, for he is as calm and confident as if he were in a quadrille when he rides to the field.

" The quadrille now ended, and Eve returned towards her friends.

Quadrille, she has often told me, was her first love; but whist had engaged her maturer esteem.

It was a long meal; not, like quadrille, a feast of snatches.

The skirmishes of quadrille, she would say, reminded her of the petty ephemeral embroilments of the little Italian states, depicted by Machiavel; perpetually changing postures and connexions; bitter foes to-day, sugared darlings to-morrow; kissing and scratching in a breath;but the wars of whist were comparable to the long, steady, deep-rooted, rational, antipathies of the great French and English nations.

My parents were present (over a quadrille table) when he arrived in the evening with his harmonious charge.

" And in the "Imitation of Horace," addressed to Lord Fortescue: "Better be Cibber, I maintain it still, Than ridicule all taste, blaspheme, quadrille.

Lady Kirkbank therefore contented herself with expatiating upon Lesbia's triumphs in a general way: how graciously the Princess spoke to her and about her; how she had been asked to sit on the dais at the ball at Marlborough House, and had danced in the Royal quadrille.

April 5, 1834, BERLIN I sat the second quadrille by my stupidity in refusing Bismarck.

The impression she made on others in her girlhood will be seen by this passage in the "Reminiscences of an Idler," by Chevalier Wyhoff: "I had the honour of dancing a quadrille with Lady Fanny Elliot, the charming daughter of the Earl of Minto.

Twelve struck in the middle of a quadrille, which was accordingly interrupted by general shaking of hands among chaperons, dancers, and all.

The crowd was always noisy, but good-natured; there was much quadrille-dancing, and a strong-lunged man called figures in a voice which did not confine itself to the limits of the hall.

The rehearsals, where "the only grave person present was Mr. Liston!the tragic heroines sauntering languidly through their parts in bonnets and thick shawls,the untidy ballet-girls" (there was a dance in "Foscari") "walking through their quadrille to the sound of a solitary fiddle,"she was never weary of calling up for the amusement of her listeners.

Idly they talked of waltz and quadrille, Idly they laughed, like other girls, Who over the fire, when all is still, Comb out their braids and curls.

In the first of a vista of three large reception-rooms lay what could only have been a number of quadrille parties, for to the coup d'oeil they presented a two-and-two appearance, made very repulsive by their jewels and evening-dress.

Miss Crilly and David Collins gayly led the quadrille that followed, and even Miss Castlevaine's habitual sneer was lost in the enjoyment of the moment.

By ten o'clock the great kitchen was dark, and the mice were making up a quadrille upon the hearth, supposing no cat to be looking on.

"I have a Waverley quadrille already formed," said Miss Byrton"that is de rigueur.

There could not be a fancy ball without a Waverley quadrille.

It was only three weeks ago that M. Bartin had dedicated a new quadrille to her; and but a fortnight since Signor Mancussi had sung four operatic airs gratuitously at one of her musical and dramatic soirées.

And now your promisethe quadrille is formed, they only wait for us.

Her natural grace in dancing forsook her not, nor did she refuse her sister's request, when the quadrille was finished, that she would take out her harp.

I will dance a quadrille with the marchesa.

"I mean to dance a quadrille with her by-and-by, I promise you.

Meantime, a quadrille was being got up.

178 examples of  quadrille  in sentences