bull-dancers

He had got my message, that if he sailed against Crete the serfs would rise and we bull-dancers would seize the Labyrinth.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

King Theseus, since the bull-dancers are scattered and the dance is over, my master has sent you as a gift of honor Podargos, King Bull of the sacred herd sprung from the Sun.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

Theseus, by his skill and leadership in the bull-dance, kept his team of Athenians alive till in the confusion following one of the great Cretan earthquakes (of whose approach he had an inherited premonition) he led the oppressed native serfs and the captive bull-dancers in a successful revolt.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

Two or three of the bull-dancers had come from here.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

I excused myself early, which no one noticed, for bull-dancers need their sleep.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Behind me ran the bull-dancers, who had kept with me while the Cretans looted; working together was in our blood.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Patrons and lovers and gamblers would send jewels to the dancers, who wore them all, for bull-dancers are showy and love finery.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Though the beginners trained apart, learning the first things of the dance, handsprings and somersaults and tumblers 'skills, all bull-dancers lived and ate together in the Bull Court till after supper, when the guardian priestess fetched the girls away.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

The bull-dancers came swarming over the broken stones.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Round it in the dust sat the sacred cripples, bull-dancers who had walked out of the ring on their feet after a goring, but would never dance again.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958