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All the girls in the "dancings" and sportsmen at the bar who like a fox-trot or a maxixe have been given to believe, by people who ought to know better, that they are more sensitive to music than those who prefer Beethoven.
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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The winner is at two second awards and one individual first point of "reincarnated" that have been born worked folklore ofArmenian dancings in Sliven as well.
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Self-conscious pole dancer kitty has second thoughts try break dancings for teh moneys picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: oh noes katieee
Self-conscious pole dancer kitty - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice, and roughen my character, to keep up with its puppily dancings.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Emily Lester, sitting in her large drawing-room over the way, could witness her own dancings up and down behind the counter at the beck and call of wretched twopenny customers, whose patronage she was driven to welcome gladly: persons to whom she was compelled to be civil in the street, while Emily was bounding along with her children and her governess, and conversing with the genteelest people of the town and neighbourhood.
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Lady Marmela Short-bred will walk in for supper with her marchpane switch on, her necklace of almonds and her poirette Sundae dress with bracelets of honey and her cochineal hose with the caramel dancings, the briskly best from Bootiestown, and her suckingstaff of ivory - mint.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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These public processions of the maidens, and their appearing naked in their exercises and dancings, were incitements to marriage, operating upon the young with the rigor and certainty, as
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The evangelist, therefore, does not without cause say that "every man went unto his own house"; for otherwise they must have gone to those dancings, if the next day had not been the sabbath.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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The eighth day therefore being ended, the history of which we have in chapter 7, the following night was out of the compass of the feast; so that they had done the dancings of which we have spoken before.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Stage-plays, masquerades, balls, assemblies, and promiscuous dancings, the very nurseries of impiety and wickedness, are not only tolerated, but even countenanced by law.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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