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  • He had heard, many hundreds of times, of the bitter experiences in those rings of many a shepherd who had happened to chance on the dancing-place or the circles of the Fair

    Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

  • Klas had told him the underground people had their principal dancing-place.

    Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian Various

  • 'He made yet another picture -- a dancing-place with youths and maidens dancing, their hands upon each others' hands.

    The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Padraic Colum 1926

  • When her soul flies to the predestined dancing-place

    Upon a Dying Lady William Butler 1919

  • ‘He made yet another picture—a dancing-place with youths and maidens dancing, their hands upon each others’ hands.

    Part I. Chapter XVI 1918

  • And the moment that the man dismounted and took off his magic halter the hippogriff flew slanting away with a whirr, going back to some airy dancing-place of his people.

    The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • For me, accustomed to the gay and grotesque life deployed in an evening at the dancing-place of the Parisian students in the

    Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

  • Dorcas could see that what she had taken to be a shock of last year's cornstalks, standing in the middle of the dancing-place, was really tied into a rude resemblance to a woman.

    The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • She sat on a bench against the wall wondering, for the lovely clean stillness of the room encouraged thinking, and the clink of her father's hammers on the pipes fell presently into the regular _tink-tink-a-tink_ of tortoise-shell rattles, keeping time to the shuffle and beat of bare feet on the dancing-place by the river.

    The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • Mr. Atkinson found the Malers extremely reticent on the subject, and with difficulty elicited that they had a dancing-place in every village, but it is only when under the influence of God

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

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