Clog Dancer

It wouldn't do for you to cultivate the clog-dancer _and_ like "Peter Pan," because in that case you probably liked the clog-dancer for the wrong reason -- for something other than that sublimated skill which is art. ❋ Various (1915)

He did not know what to think of Florence, the champion female clog-dancer. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

It may be doubted whether a female clog-dancer had ever footed it in Bursley. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

And he recalled for a second the figure of Florence Simcox, the clog-dancer. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

And he suddenly thought of Florence, the clog-dancer. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

But Florence the clog-dancer had easily diverted the seeming-powerful current of his mind. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

"Gentlemen all, Miss Florence Simcox -- or shall us say Mrs Offlow, wife of the gentleman who has just obliged -- the champion female clog-dancer of the Midlands, will now oblige." ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

Florence Simcox, the clog-dancer, floated through his mind. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

He had been, as he claimed, "a cruel uncle's ward" in his early orphan-hood, and while yet almost a child he had run away from home, to fulfil his heart's desire of becoming a clog-dancer in a troupe of negro minstrels. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

"I shall have your clog-dancer on his feet yet, Mr. Kinney," said Mr.. Macallister, as she came back to her place. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

"Isn't it jolly good fun?" she demanded, when the figure was finished; and now Kinney went up to the first-class clog-dancer, and prevailed with him to show his skill. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

"There's a first-class clog-dancer among them; but he's a little stuck up, and I don't know as you could get him to dance," he said in a low tone. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Married Beryl Ingham, a champion clog-dancer, 1924. ❋ Unknown (2010)