I danced the cotillion with L, who, as you know, dances divinely; il m'a fait la cour, but it is of course no use, you know that.

Major Darrett had been little on the frontier, but much in the drawing-room; he had never led up San Juan hill, but he had led many a cotillion.

The whole of their hilarity seems to consist in the movement of the dance, in which they are by not means animated; and I have seen, even among the common people, a cotillion performed as gravely and as mechanically as the ceremonies of a Chinese court.

"And now," continued the ringmaster, "we will wind up the cotillion with the marriage of Mirth to Folly!