The French contredanse was borrowed from the English country-dance.
The country-dance expresses the happiness of youth and the gladness of life.
Everybody laughed, and we took our places to lead off the country-dance.
She did not refuse him for the country-dance which followed, and soon after was his partner in a second.
She replied that Henry Harford had engaged her, at the last ball, for this country-dance.
A country-dance was called, and the epicier claimed the fair hand of the gentle Adele.
Scully, trembling, thrust forward one of his huge kid-gloves, and led her to the head of the country-dance.
The Miss Darnels and their partners took their places near the top of the country-dance.
It was a regular jig-a-jig—a country-dance of pousette, down the middle, and right and left.
You are thrown on your back immediately; the conversation is stopt like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure.
