hornpipes

The pot -- that pot above everything -- threw him into transports of joy, culminating in a series of "hornpipes" and "cellar-flaps," wound up by a triumphant "six-eight breakdown."

Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866

Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh on union pipes and fiddle playing some Irish hornpipes.

Some Piping for the Weekend John 2009

Among Gilbert's finest characters is the fastidious Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty, who believes that "all sailors should dance hornpipes," and who advises would-be Sea Lords to "stick close to your desks, and never go to sea."

Gilbert & Sullivan, Parody's Patresfamilias Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh on union pipes and fiddle playing some Irish hornpipes.

27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009

Mr. McFittoch would have turned out Richard against the country-side in the minuet, and wagered the thing dearest to him in the world, (and that was his kit,) upon his assured superiority; but he admitted Hartley was superior to him in hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

There was a fat little dancing-master who used to come in a gig, and taught the more advanced among us hornpipes (as an accomplishment in great social demand in after life); and there was a brisk little French master who used to come in the sunniest weather, with a handleless umbrella, and to whom the Chief was always polite, because (as we believed), if the

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Ned Twigger was in the very height of his glory, and he danced hornpipes, and balanced chairs on his chin, and straws on his nose, till the whole company, including the corporation, were in raptures of admiration at the brilliancy of his acquirements.

Sketches by Boz 2007

Menander holds, it will make such melancholy persons mad, and the sound of those jigs and hornpipes will not be removed out of the ears a week after.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

As Nicholas appeared by no means impressed with the solemnity of the proposed effect, but, on the contrary, received the proposition in a most irreverent manner, and laughed at it very heartily, Mr Crummles abandoned the project in its birth, and gloomily observed that they must make up the best bill they could with combats and hornpipes, and so stick to the legitimate drama.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

However it seems just as remarkable that Brown tried to create, on limited resources, the full range of theatrical forms including sailors 'hornpipes, Scottish and topical airs, pantomime as well as Shakespeare.

Obi in NewYork 2002