maxixe

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It was almost like a maxixe, but I finally got headed toward Providence Road, down which, five miles away, Hayesboro is firmly planted in a beautiful, dreamy, vine-covered rustication Oh, I wonder if it could be a devil that is possessing Sam?"

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  • They were just starting to do the—maxixe, wasn't it, Jimmy?—when he became a monk, and it haunted him his whole first year. —  Flappers and Philosophers
  • Richard Duree of Costa Mesa instructed two ragtime dance classes on Sunday, teaching his students the waltz, tango, foxtrot and maxixe. —  The Orange County Register - Homepage
  • It was almost like a maxixe, but I finally got headed toward Providence Road, down which, five miles away, Hayesboro is firmly planted in a beautiful, dreamy, vine-covered rustication Oh, I wonder if it could be a devil that is possessing Sam?" —  Over Paradise Ridge A Romance
  • All the girls in the "dancings" and sportsmen at the bar who like a fox-trot or a maxixe have been given to believe, by people who ought to know better, that they are more sensitive to music than those who prefer Beethoven. —  Since Cézanne
  • They were just starting to do the--maxixe, wasn't it, Jimmy?--when he became a monk, and it haunted him his whole first year. —  Flappers and Philosophers
 

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