quadrilles

"A dull old game," she is irreverently terming the quadrilles -- that massing together of inelegant movements so dear to the bucolic mind -- that saving clause for the old maids and the wall-flowers; when a little change of position shows her the double quartette on the right hand side of the magnificent ballroom.

April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

We did not see Guy among the dancers, who were now forming in a somewhat confused square, in order to execute a new dance called quadrilles, of which Miss Grace Oldtower was to be the instructress.

John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

Mr. Brady was very much esteemed as a composer, being the author of many fine pieces of music, such as quadrilles, polkas, waltzes, marches, and songs.

Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867

"quadrilles" as a sign of entertainment offered, we'll have Osborne and

Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

The minstrels were embowered in greenery as they played waltzes and quadrilles, which were danced with great zest, and the hall rang with good-humored laughter . . .

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Alva threw down the gauntlet when she planned an enormous house-warming costume ball complete with expensive favors and elaborate quadrilles.

The Four Hundred | Edwardian Promenade 2009

Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.

Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.

Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.

Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

I have danced the faith v. reason, religion v. atheism quadrilles many, many times.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009