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" These dances are without any method or regularity: a Gentleman and Lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular fantastical manner. After some time, another Lady gets up, and... "
The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most ... - Page 39
by Thomas Smith - 1804
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

1852 - 508 pages
...or regularity : a gentleman and' lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular...fantastical manner. After some time, another lady must sit down, she being, as they term it, cut out : the second lady acts the same part which the first...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

1852 - 508 pages
...or regularity : a gentleman and lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular...fantastical manner. After some time, another lady must sit down, she being, as they term it, cut out : the second lady acts the same part which the first...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 pages
...or regularity : a gentleman and lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular...fantastical manner. After some time, another lady must sit down, she being, as they term it, cut out : the second lady acts the same part which the first...
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Self Culture, Volume 10

1900 - 728 pages
...one of them retiring, the other advancing, then perhaps meeting in an irregular fantastical fashion. After some time another lady gets up, and then the...as they term it, cut out. The second lady acts the same way as the first did, till someone cuts her out. The gentlemen perform in the same way.B This...
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Burnaby's Travels Through North America

Andrew Burnaby - 1904 - 280 pages
...method or regularity: a gentleman and lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular fantastical manner. After some * The author has since had an opportunity of observing something similar in Italy. The trescone of...
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Burnaby's Travels Through North America

Andrew Burnaby - 1904 - 278 pages
...method or regularity: a gentleman and lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular fantastical manner. After some * The author has since had an opportunity of observing something similar in Italy. The trescone of...
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Burnaby's Travels Through North America

Rufus Rockwell Wilson - 1904 - 274 pages
...method or regularity: a gentleman and lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular fantastical manner. After some * The author has since had an opportunity of observing something similar in Italy. The trescone of...
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Colonial Virginia: Its People and Customs

Mary Newton Stanard - 1917 - 532 pages
...pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular, fantastic manner. After some time another lady gets up and the first lady must sit down, she being, as they term it, cut out; the second lady acts the same part which the first one did till somebody cuts her out. The gentlemen perform the same manner."...
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The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-century ...

Mechal Sobel - 1987 - 380 pages
...and emotional: [A] gentleman and lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular...down, she being, as they term it, cut out. . . . The gentlemen perform in the same manner. 10 Black musicians played at the white dances, and reciprocal...
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Riot and Revelry in Early America

William Pencak, Matthew Dennis - 2010 - 330 pages
...dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting in an irregular manner. After some time, another lady gets up, and then the first lady must sit down, she being, as the term is, cut out; the second lady acts the same part which the first did, till somebody cuts her...
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