valse
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valses
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That's what Ravel wrote on the first page of La valse.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2012
Some French businessmen refer to the U.S. practice of shifting executives from job to job and country to country as la valse des directeurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says precocious Prokofiev: "At six I wrote down myself a valse . . . and I composed a march for four hands when I was seven."
From Time Magazine Archive
Once more they were dancing together, this time in a valse.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
In the ballroom polkas, valses, and mazurkas followed each other endlessly until the pale dawn appeared, and the cottage fires were lit.
From Selected Polish Tales by Marie Busch
Nor must we overlook the so-called hackneyed valses, the tinkling charm of the one in G-flat, the elegiac quality of the one in B minor.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker
She will play nothing but valses all the evening, unless you prevent it' But Jill shook her head sulkily; she felt safer in her corner.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
All having regained their places, each gentleman valses with his own partner once round the room, or remains sitting by her side, as she may feel inclined.
From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge
In looking through the list of his compositions, teeming with mazurkas, valses, polonaises, and other forms of national dance music, one could hardly suppose that here one of the most melancholy natures has revealed itself.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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