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'Strange name -- name of a dancing-master's fiddle, eh, Mr. Richard?'

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

"Why are Colonel Sibthorp and Mr. Peter Borthwick like the covering of the dancing-master's toes?"

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various

Mavis was loth to take it; but seeing the dancing-master's distress at her hesitation, she reluctantly pocketed the money.

Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

We had a dancing-master who came regularly to Mr. Cape's house to prepare us to shine in society, and his instrument was the convenient dancing-master's pocket fiddle or kit.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896

One friend of Lafayette's early days reports that he was too tall to make a distinguished appearance on horseback or to dance with special grace; but this was said in a period when the dancing-master's art was the ideal of social conduct.

Lafayette Martha Foote Crow 1889

Just then the city pipers struck up a gagliarde, and the music was the air of the dancing-master's song by Baldassaro Donati, which had roused the Emperor's indignation a few days ago.

Barbara Blomberg — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

Just then the city pipers struck up a gagliarde, and the music was the air of the dancing-master's song by Baldassaro Donati, which had roused the Emperor's indignation a few days ago.

Barbara Blomberg — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

Just then the city pipers struck up a gagliarde, and the music was the air of the dancing-master's song by Baldassaro Donati, which had roused the Emperor's indignation a few days ago.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

We had a dancing-master who came regularly to Mr. Cape's house to prepare us to shine in society, and his instrument was the convenient dancing-master's pocket fiddle or kit.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864

If she never forgot that she was dancing-master's daughter, she never let any one else forget that she was a lady.

The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862