Dancers

Examples

• I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• This evening was set apart for dancing, and Fanny and Julia being the very best dancers in the room were in their glory. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The dancers all lessened their speed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We had better lose no time in beginning then, said Maurice, who was looking at the approaching enemy, for here come the dancers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As the noise and rapidity of the drumbeats increased the dancers apparently became intoxicated with the wild rhythm and the savage yells. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The musicians were securely confined in an elevated den, and quadrilles were being systematically got through by two or three sets of dancers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Darius, for instance, was accompanied by his harem, and there was a great multitude of harem slaves, musicians, dancers, and cooks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When all the adult males had joined in the thin line of circling dancers the attack commenced. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The finale concluded, the dancers promenaded the room, and Mr. Tupman and his companion stationed themselves in a corner to observe the company. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down and joined the boys and the conversation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They are found as relics of worship and the dance, ages after the worshippers and the dancers have become part of the earth's strata. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The dancers halted as though turned to stone. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Within it was a drinking saloon, and all around it was a broad circular platform for the dancers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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