Balancez quatre en ligne, four dancers set in a line, joining hands, as in La Poule.

Jack hung the howdah with silken streamers and set a mahout's turban on the head of the man on the seat in front of him, while the glistening semi-oval tops of the limousines floating in the mist of the rising grade from Madison Square to Forty-second Street, swarmed and halted in a kind of blind, cramped pas de quatre from cross street to cross street, amid the breaking surge of pedestrians.

"Four English girls dancing a pas de quatre on the sand of the circus.