mazourkas

A band played quadrilles, schottisches, redowas, waltzes, polkas, and mazourkas, and some students spent part of the spring semester taking private dancing lessons to make a good impression.

The School Day and the School Year Erika Lindemann 2004

The grounds are illumined as if it were day, barrels of pitch are everywhere burning, torches are blazing high upon his walls, windows and doors are thrown open, harps sound and trumpets thunder, mazourkas swell upon the ear, and the gay groups twine, twist, reel, half mad with joyous excitement.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Had dancing, polkas and mazourkas being especial favorites; singing also, and music from La Norma and Sonnambula, exquisitely performed.

Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

The time for mazourkas and cracoviennes is past: they have been replaced by law cases, pleading, chicanery, and all its tiresome accompaniments; his language is so learned that one can no longer understand him.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

In the '50s it was quite common, and my dear music book of that date holds ever so many dedicated polkas and mazourkas.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

No more did Mrs. Tanberry extemporize Dan Tuckers, mazourkas, or quadrilles in the ball-room, nor Blind-Man's Buff in the library; no more did serenaders nightly seek the garden with instrumental plunkings and vocal gifts of harmony.

The Two Vanrevels Booth Tarkington 1907

And the world which loves the lilting rhythms of Chopin's mazourkas seldom cares to peep behind the screen of notes for the anguish ambushed there.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

After tea the visitor generally asked for music; and Clarissa would play her favourite waltzes and mazourkas, while the two gentlemen went on with their conversation.

The Lovels of Arden 1875

What are we to think, then, of the delicacy which shrinks from the reading-room frequented by men; which discovers so suddenly that magazines are more embarrassing than mazourkas; that to read in a cloak and hat before a man is more indelicate than to waltz in his presence half denuded by fashion?

A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia Caroline Healey Dall 1865

And under his phenomenal fingers, a haunting, tender, world-sorrow, full of questionings -- a dark mystery of moonless, starlit nature -- exhales itself in nocturnes, in impromptus, in preludes -- in mere waltzes and mazourkas even!

Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865