tarantella

• But the abandon is so happy as to seem misplaced in a tarantella, that dance whose traditional origin is the maniacal frenzy produced by the bite of the tarantula. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• Louis threw off his coat and sprang to tarantella attention, Ciccio rang out the peculiar tarantella, and Madame and Louis danced in the tight space Brava--Brava!" —  The Lost Girl
• But the tarantella is a novelty to the sight-seeing tourist, who believes he must see everything in order to be an authority when he gets back home Giovanni did not return till late that night, and on the morrow Hillard questioned him I have been to see a cousin," said Giovanni, "who lives on the way to El Deserta Ah! —  The Lure of the Mask
• Delarey seemed to him like a tarantella in repose, if such a thing could be Suddenly Hermione turned round, as if conscious that he was there. —  The Call of the Blood
• Again Artois thought of Sicilian boys dancing the tarantella, and when they were in the small smoke-room, which Caminiti had fitted up in what he believed to be Oriental style, and which, though scarcely accurate, was quite cosey, he was moved to inquire Pardon me, monsieur, but are you entirely English No, monsieur. —  The Call of the Blood

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