How To Use Quadrille In A Sentence
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Who might indulge in a boogie-woogie quadrille at such a time is beyond me.
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It could be prompted as a quadrille or used as the figure in a singing call or adapted to a patter routine by having the Four Ladies Chain instead of doing the Allemande Left, etc.
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The quadrille is a stately and a conversational dance.
Manners and Social Usages
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The traditional folk dance, the quadrille, dates back to eighteenth century European settlers.
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Oh, yes, I had three waltzes, the second quadrille and the mazurka, and he is ever so courteous, and kind, and gentlemanly!
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The Home circle: a collection of piano-forte music consisting of the most favorite marches, waltzes, polkas, redowas, schottisches, galops, mazurkas, quadrilles, dances, etc.
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“Then, madame, am I not overbold in offering myself to be your partner for the next quadrille?”
Domestic Peace
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All are at the lowest level, that of quadrilles, or one step up, that of coryphées in the company's hierarchy, but many of them could certainly be soloists in almost any other smaller company.
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Moleskine Reporter (I love the "flip-top" and quadrille lines!)
Abrégé - French Word-A-Day
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‘La Danza del Toro’ (dance of the bull) is a centuries-old quadrille, danced with swords, which re-enacts a folk stow from Mexico's colonial past.
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Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.
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It won't last long, this curious quadrille of quasi-courtship.
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The earliest music of European origin included quadrilles played by regimental bands in the penal settlements.
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The brolga has a taste for dancing; flocks of this bird may be seen solemnly going through quadrilles and lancers -- of their own invention -- on the plains.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
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As soon as the quadrille ended another waltz began.
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My biology lab notes are written on green-tint quadrille.
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Sidsall recalled the quadrille he had led her through at Lacy's party; he had been a perfect partner, at once light and firm.
Java Head
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He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet.
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He only grinned and led me back onto the dance floor as quadrille began.
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The shifting positions on his map give the impression of a lobsters' quadrille being danced.
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Lady Catherine, Sir William, and Mr. and Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss De Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting Mrs. Jenkinson to make up her party.
Chapter XXIX
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_ Quadrille is played with forty cards: tredrille usually with thirty: sometimes, as in Pope's Ombre, with twenty-seven.
Gryll Grange
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Dickens, we are told, happily danced a half dozen quadrilles and thanked his hosts for their ‘affectionate’ greeting.
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The first gent that rode him found himself dancing a quadrille in Hupper Brook Street to an 'urdy-gurdy that was playing' Cherry Ripe, 'such is the natur of the hanimal.
Men's Wives
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I just went to Thomson's around the time of the First War where they learned you quadrilles and lancers.
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Daniel Hannan does a fairly decent analysis of the state of play on the treaty "quadrille" this morning in Brussels Journal, the oh so predictable and tedious posturing of member states some of them as we lead up to the IGC and its equally predictable outcome.
Archive 2007-10-01
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They even had time to dance "square dances," quadrilles, and "lancers"; they also danced the "racquette," and schottisches and polkas, and such whims as the "Portland Fancy.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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The local band, which usually consisted of cornets, slide trombone, violin, clarinet, and bass drum, played at weddings, festivals, and other social occasions, offering waltzes, quadrilles, and two-steps.
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Daniel Hannan set the tone, describing the posturing as the "quadrille" and latterly, Fraser Nelson on the Spectator blog picked up the theme, with a short but pointed post, headed: "How Barroso and Brown could stitch up the press".
Archive 2007-10-01
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The Lancers Quadrille was full of grace, with its salutes and its bows, its slow and solemn movement.
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Lady Catherine, Sir William, and Mr. and Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss de Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting Mrs. Jenkinson to make up her party.
Pride and Prejudice
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The quadrille was a stately spectacular display, in which splendid dress and stirring music and the effects of rhythmic motion had been brought freely into play for the delight of the beholders.
Miss Bretherton
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So qualified, to say nothing of his gifts in tea-drinking, cassino, and quadrille (whist was too many for him), his popularity could not be questioned.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
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My biology lab notes are written on green-tint quadrille.
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He went back in to the party and sat in a corner by himself, watching the quadrille dancing and thinking about her.
DESPERADOES
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Working with the steps of formal quadrilles and folk dances, St Lucians developed different kinds of dances.
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Traditional French Canadian dances include the quadrille and the gigue.
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Nevertheless our friends did dance on the sands; finding, however, that quadrilles and Sir Roger de Coverley suited them better than polkas and waltzes.
Can You Forgive Her?
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A quadrille is a very humdrum performance nowadays to those who know nothing so delightful as the wild monotony of the round dance.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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We like the notion of a charitable quadrille -- or a benevolent waltz; and it delights us to see a philanthropic design set on foot, through the medium of a gallopade.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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Two waltzes," said Trix, counting on her fingers; "that's two; one cracovienne, that's three; les lanciers, that's four; one galop, that's five; and one polka quadrille, that's six.
A Terrible Secret
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Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss De Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting
Pride and Prejudice
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Who am I to interpose in the delicately poised quadrille of consumers and the fulfillers of dreams?
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Lucy then explained "that the masked ball suggested by Mr. Talboys 'beautiful dresses was to be very soon, and she wanted Mr. Dodd to practice quadrilles and waltzes with her; it will be so much better with the violin and piano than with a piano alone, and you are such an excellent timist -- will you, Mr. Dodd?
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
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He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet.
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One could find parts of a symphony and an overture of German or Austrian origin along with Italian opera selections, quadrilles, and virtuoso items.
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Of course a man can, if he chooses, get in extra steps enough to keep his feet warm, but we contend that no quadrille, where they only touch hands, go down in the middle, and alamand left, can work upon a man's religion enough to cause him to backslide.
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
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When all had been served, they lingered around the surgeon's quarters, talking with each other and laughing, others formed on for a stag quadrille, and danced, while a nigger fiddled.
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887
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Step combinations are given for nineteen quadrille figures, such as "right and left," "hands round," "English chain," "ladies' chain," and "balance."
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Traditional French Canadian dances include the quadrille and the gigue.
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Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
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I think you'll agree there's a certain likeness in the bearing, the handsome features and noble mien, his quadrille is second to none and of course his manners are on the whole impeccable.
45 entries from March 2008
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Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
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The minstrels were embowered in greenery as they played waltzes and quadrilles, which were danced with great zest, and the hall rang with good-humored laughter . . .
A Renegade History of the United States
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He, the ‘Waltz King’, also produced a great deal of other popular dance music for the Viennese public including polkas, galops, and quadrilles, in addition to his 13 operettas.
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The final of the three numbers was an eight-person quadrille with some modern variations.
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We dance here in Apia a most fearful and wonderful quadrille, I don’t know where the devil they fished it from; but it is rackety and prancing and embraceatory beyond words; perhaps it is best defined in Haggard’s expression of a gambado.
Vailima Letters
