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The Baron danced the college hornpipe, last Wednesday, on one leg, before a party of private friends; and the Honourable Miss Nathan went through the Cracovienne, amidst twenty-four coffee-cups and an inverted pitcher, surmounted by a very long champagne-glass.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various
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The examined shall be able to "go on" anywhere in "Télémaque," or in the conversations in Veneroni's Grammar; to play a fantasia of Thalberg's; to work a pair of slippers in Berlin wool; and to dance the Cachuca and Cracovienne.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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There were also some Viennese dancers, who introduced, I believe, the Cracovienne.
A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921
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Polonaise, the bold Masur, the ingenious Cracovienne, are equally the property of the nobility and peasantry, and were formerly always accompanied by singing instead of instrumental music.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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Cracovienne with all the mincing graces of a ballet heroine.
Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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-- the art of giving ten guineas for a couple of hours spent in an opera-box, will then become less criminal; and we shall have no fear of the influence of some Herodias's daughter in our domestic life, when we see the Cracovienne announced in the bills "by Miss Mary Thomson."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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Quite different yet equally effective in its way is his "Cracovienne
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Gustav Kobb�� 1887
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