clog-dancer

It wouldn't do for you to cultivate the clog-dancer _and_ like "Peter Pan," because in that case you probably liked the clog-dancer for the wrong reason -- for something other than that sublimated skill which is art.

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

He did not know what to think of Florence, the champion female clog-dancer.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

And he recalled for a second the figure of Florence Simcox, the clog-dancer.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

And he suddenly thought of Florence, the clog-dancer.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

Florence Simcox, the clog-dancer, floated through his mind.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

But Florence the clog-dancer had easily diverted the seeming-powerful current of his mind.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

It may be doubted whether a female clog-dancer had ever footed it in Bursley.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

"Gentlemen all, Miss Florence Simcox -- or shall us say Mrs Offlow, wife of the gentleman who has just obliged -- the champion female clog-dancer of the Midlands, will now oblige."

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

He had been, as he claimed, "a cruel uncle's ward" in his early orphan-hood, and while yet almost a child he had run away from home, to fulfil his heart's desire of becoming a clog-dancer in a troupe of negro minstrels.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

"I shall have your clog-dancer on his feet yet, Mr. Kinney," said Mr.. Macallister, as she came back to her place.

A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1878