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Harry laughed very heartily at this story; but now their attention was called towards the company, who had ranged themselves by pairs for country-dancing.

From The History of Sandford and Merton by Day, Thomas

The cotillions were over, the country-dancing beginning, and she saw nothing of the Tilneys.

From Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane