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I take it this means you want me to quit putting Kayne West CD's in with Polkas and Chris Brown with Musical Soundtracks.
International Science Fiction Reshelving Day -- Good Idea or Bad Idea? 2009
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And the Polkas....oh, the Polkas... instant classics - each and everyone.
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I was looking at it and thinking, Polkas don't involve ...
On it. Under it. With others. Jessica Hagy 2007
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Al's Polkas, combining numerous other songs, are always amongst my favorites.
Adam does that damned music meme yendi 2005
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M. O'BRIEN: "The Two Fat Polkas," one of my favorites.
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I think we are up to volume five - "Polkas de Oro" - does Valerio Longoria's 'Beer Barrel Polka' count as indigenas?
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The most wonderful of all musical inventions; a machine which in a purely mechanical manner produces any kind of music, Waltzes, Polkas, Marches,
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He gave his public waltzes, "Row Polkas," and explosive Army Quadrilles, but he also sandwiched Beethoven and Mozart between the coarser viands of his musical menu.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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I clapped my hands and cried glory for the space of half and hour, then danced a few Polkas around the study table, then sat down and felt happy, then remembered that I had now nothing to do save to grow old and ugly, and so turned a misanthropic look upon the Marie Stuart garland, etc., etc.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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As to the Polkas and Cellariuses I do not covet them of course ... but what a strange world you seem to have, to me at a distance -- what a strange husk of a world!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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