And he would sit upon his throne and view the foreign singers and dancers, and the players upon divers instruments, and would much applaud, when his foreign dancers did dance a certain dance, wherein the toe is placed upon the forehead, and which is called the cancan.

Aha! then did I lead them a right merry dance by moor and moss, by briar and bog, and contrived to slay of them five in all.

They are waiting on the shinglewill you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

"Steerage way," he shouted, and executed an awkward clog dance on the reeling deck.

Meanwhile Rama is performing a devil dance of his own in the smoke-clouds; the gong is ringing, cymbals clashing, onlookers shouting; the tresses of the women have fallen down and in the half-light look like black snakes writhing in torture; the women themselves are as mad as the Bacchantes and Menads of old fable: in a word, it is Pandemonium let loose!

"It only shows, my dear Dick," his sister observed, "you may quite easily run risks in giving a semi-public dance in your own house.

"We've decided not to hold the proposed dance, but to take our departure at once.

Some score of braves began a war dance, circling round me, waving their tomahawks, and singing their wild chants.

You might teach him the mad dance, set to the mad howl.

" "Why's that?" "It was Mrs. Travers's wish that this should be done in order to minimize the work for the staff, who are attending a dance at Sir Percival Stretchley-Budd's residence tonight.

Whether so me lift my lovely thought to sing, Come dance ye nimble Dryads by my side, Ye gentle wood-nymphs come; and with you bring The willing fawns that mought their music guide. Come nymphs and fawns, that haunts those shady groves, While I report my fortunes or my loves.

And once he saw a glorious dance of the aurora borealisin all the colours of a faint rainbow.

I'd rather watch Johnnie dance, anyhow; but she would have me try for myself.

I wished to learn correctly the Indian songs which they sing in celebrating their dances.

Is he going to dance with you again?" "I promised him the third dance after this.

He had asked me to sit out two dances, and that made me think he really must want to be with me, not just because I'm the "pretty girl's sister," but because I'm myself, Lisa Drummond.

They had elected him to do it and he was getting along all right till she thought of having this blamed fool dance.

[Illustration: A "ZIGRI" IN GWARJAK] A horn, a lute, and half a dozen tom-toms accompanied the dance.

Then I looked straight at her, "Madam, very soon I'll be learning the dance of death over in France, and my mind's concerned with that."

I've never enjoyed a dance more.

Most of the officers and ladies of the garrison were assembled on the hospital gallery to witness the dance.

When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!"

" Gifford left the dance and went back to the hotel.

"We had like to have finished our dance on nothing," said Mr. Raleigh now, looking back on the splintered wheels and panels.

But that eye-wedlock was cut short the next instant by the decided interference of the horse, who, thoroughly disgusted at his master's whole conduct, gave a significant shake of his head, and shamming frightened (as both women and horses will do when only cross), commenced a war-dance, which drove Argemone Lavington into the porch, and gave the bewildered Lancelot an excuse for dashing madly up the hill after his companions.