torch-dance

The torches were fixed on poles around the floor, for the torch-dance was over.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

The royal party mount the platform, and in honor of the event the torch-dance begins.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

The old Berezowski as usual was on the outer edge of the circle of dancers; in the mazurka and the torch-dance, where it was only necessary to stamp and shout, he had his part; but in the cushion dance, where the kisses came, he failed as usual.

Pater Peter. English. M��r J��kai 1864

One band relieved another at banquet and dance; meantime the young people who became weary of the pleasures of the table first, withdrew to one end of the long hall for the "torch-dance," or the "cushion-dance," while still the servants at the other end continued to carry in the succession of dishes to the feast; if you wish to count the courses there is still the portly kitchen record.

Pater Peter. English. M��r J��kai 1864

We also have eyes, or ought to have; we have hustings, telescopes; we have lights, link-lights and rushlights of an enlightened free Press, burning and dancing everywhere, as in a universal torch-dance; singeing your whiskers as you traverse the public thoroughfares in town and country.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

We also have eyes, or ought to have; we have hustings, telescopes; we have lights, link-lights and rush-lights of an enlightened free Press, burning and dancing everywhere, as in a universal torch-dance; singeing your whiskers as you traverse the public thoroughfares in town and country.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

His speech is wild and wondrous: unearthly Phantasms dancing now their torch-dance round his soul; the soul itself looking out, fire-radiant, motionless, girt together for that great hour!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Edwald hastened to give his hand to his fair bride; and while he advanced with her to the midst of the stately hall, Froda offered his hand for the torch-dance to a noble lady who stood the nearest to him, without farther observing her, and took with her the next place to the wedded pair.

Aslauga's Knight Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

A squire, who had hastened after them, announced that the knightly bridegroom was expected for the torch-dance, and as they returned,

Aslauga's Knight Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

"Nay, Eudora," said Philothea, turning mournfully away: "Your feelings are strangely embittered; the calm light of reason is totally obscured by the wild torch-dance of your passions.

Philothea A Grecian Romance Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841