Example Sentences

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They don’t understand sarabands and corantos; and you can’t play jigs.”

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by Fenn, George Manville

Then they all together dance 'measures, corantos, and galliards,' till Phosphorus the day star appears and calls them away— To rest!

From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

They bid us to the English dancing-schools, And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos; Saying our grace is only in our heels, And that we are most lofty runaways.

From King Henry V by Shakespeare, William