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It is the adolescent stage: where the lisp or drawl, most popular in the advanced circles, is affected with unquestionable propriety: when growing girls of susceptible sixteen, or thereabout, are meekly subjected to a rigid training and instruction by their older and more sophisticated sisters, when they learn "dauncing" and "tennis" and
The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera
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They gave them some liquor, “elevating there springs and put them in the humour of dauncing of whom we had a war dauncing.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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They gave them some liquor, “elevating there springs and put them in the humour of dauncing of whom we had a war dauncing.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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They gave them some liquor, “elevating there springs and put them in the humour of dauncing of whom we had a war dauncing.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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They gave them some liquor, “elevating there springs and put them in the humour of dauncing of whom we had a war dauncing.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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But the exercise that is nowe among vs, is banqueting, playing, pipyng, and dauncing, and all suche delightes as may win vs to pleasure, or rocke us a sleepe.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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We stoode before him, and he sate maiestically, hauing musicke and dauncing in his presence.
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Majorica, she also fell to dauncing according to the Alexandrian custome.
The Decameron 2004
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Fountaine: after Supper, they fell to singing and dauncing.
The Decameron 2004
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Also when they will prouoke any man, they pul him by the eares to the drinke, and lug and drawe him strongly to stretch out his throate clapping their handes and dauncing before him.
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