darnce

The hall -- where they were clearing the willing professor out in favour of a "darnce" -- and the other pubs decanted their contents, and chance souls skipped for the verandas of weather-board shanties out of which other souls popped to see the runaway.

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894

"darnce" that we was gettin 'up for the girls; again it was Mrs Smith, the woman whose husban' was drowned in the flood in the Began River lars 'Crismas, or that there poor woman down by the Billabong -- her husband cleared out and left her with a lot o' kids.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

"What O! Won't she darnce with you?" said another; and somebody from the back threw banana peel at them.

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

Why, we've got an old poley cow would darnce him blind!

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

Only I thought you were a bit shook on the governess there -- what about that darnce at the Show ball, eh?

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

I remember wonst I was drivin 'along a lonely bit o' track, an 'it was a grand mornin', an 'I felt great, an' I got singin 'an' practisin 'a recitation that I allers meant to give at a bush darnce some night.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

About six months arter the smoked-out darnce, four or five of us same fellers was campin 'on th' Pipeclay agen, an 'it was a dry season.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

Well, one wet season half a dozen of us chaps was camped there for a fortnight, because the roads was too boggy to travel, an 'one night they got up a darnce at Peter Anderson's shanty acrost the ridges, an' a lot of gals an 'fellers turned up from all round about in spite of the pourin' rain.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

But the darnce was spoilt, an 'the gals was so disgusted that they went off with their fellers while the weather held up.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

"I'm in no state to be worried just now and I've no notion of having the police in here because some of their dam 'plain-clothes men have heard my attendant saying' charnce 'and' darnce 'like any

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914