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It is fiercely vigorous, but in its execution there is no attempt at gracefulness; no attention to positions, of which the old dancing-masters told us there were five; there was little attempt at step—it was simply ‘jigging’ or as sometimes called clog dancing.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

It is said that dancing-masters make their bow ill, because they are anxious to make it too well.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

British idea of a Frenchman; and if he does not believe that the inhabitants of France are for the most part dancing-masters and barbers, yet takes care to depict such in preference, and would not speak too well of them.

George Cruikshank 2006

Messieurs de la Garde to fire first, were smirking French dancing-masters; and the Black Prince, waiting upon his royal prisoner, was acting an inane masquerade: and Chivalry is naught; and honor is humbug; and Gentlemanhood is an extinct folly; and

Roundabout Papers 2006

They make a rout with their graces, and talk like a parcel of dancing-masters, and dress like a parcel of fops: one good

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Nay, those great polishers of our manners, who are by some thought to teach what principally distinguishes us from the brute creation, even dancing-masters themselves, might possibly find no place in society.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

And as for the girls, there would always be those who felt that lessons by French dancing-masters and language teachers, lessons on the harp and in water-color painting, were more valuable than a sound education in the same basics given to a boy.

Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

Bow! why, I have known several footmen come down from London set up here for dancing-masters, and carry off the best fortunes in the country.

The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar

Counts and marquises became gardeners (introducing a great variety of fruits and vegetables unknown before in the United States), dancing-masters, music-teachers, drawing-masters, architects, chemists, confectioners, cigar-makers and teachers of their own beautiful language.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

He has stirred an envious rivalry in the bosoms of the two dancing-masters, who soon appear, each abusing the other vigorously, and claiming for himself the pre-eminence in their art.

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa