ballet-dancer

To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.

On Horsemanship

And yet in the presence of the man she had this instant begun to hate vehemently, she forced the kind of smile which a ballet-dancer puts on for the public.

Albert Savarus

He started with a sort of ballet-dancer run, shivering his feathers out fluffily as he went.

Archive 2007-05-01

In the little history of “Lovel the Widower” I described, and brought to condign punishment, a certain wretch of a ballet-dancer, who lived splendidly for a while on ill-gotten gains, had an accident, and lost her beauty, and died poor, deserted, ugly, and every way odious.

Roundabout Papers

And if a singer, why should not a ballet-dancer come bounding on the stage with his cordon, and cut capers to the music of a row of decorated fiddlers?

Roundabout Papers

I met you yesterday openly walking with a French ballet-dancer, and you took off your hat.

The Virginians

The disadvantage is that they cost more than regular tights and they only come in ballet-dancer colors.

the necessary infrastructure - A Dress A Day

Alexis had the grace and elegance; she had the ballet-dancer body and the sleek, fashionable clothes.

To Catch a Prince

“Yes, by thunder!” he ejaculated; and letting go of his companions, he spun round like a ballet-dancer.

Australia Felix

He is set in motion by a ballet-dancer, a cantatrice, an actress; in short, he is a brigand-captain, with other brigands under him.

Balzac