At a time when, riding his hunch, he was getting half a million for half a sack of flour, it was nothing less than insanity to give twenty whole sacks to a dancing-girl and a priest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My late father-in-law, old Morrison, was telling him to spread it thin, because it cost a thousand pounds a bottle, and Rudi said he had gallons of the stuff, and when it had all been applied they would get Narreeman, the Afghan dancing-girl, to ravish me and throw me out into the snow. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)
I came back to England laden down like a dancing-girl with stuff I could never wear: bracelets and toe rings and anklets. ❋ Miranda Seymour (2009)
He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chaeronea if he could bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in ❋ Unknown (2008)
He conversed with Hermione, and found her deeply impressed with the truths of religion, and so perfectly acquainted with its doctrines, that he compared her to a doctor of theology in the dress of an Eastern dancing-girl. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I see, the dancing-girl is standing ready; they are handing her some hoops. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Syracusan here, should do is to exhibit his dancing-girl to the state. 57 Let him tell the authorities he is prepared, for a consideration, to give the whole ❋ Unknown (2007)
Witness that story about the dancing-girl, that we all believed against you, Harry ❋ Unknown (2006)
“Already they have had that calumny about me set a-going here, Sampson, — about me and the poor little French dancing-girl.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Straitwaist at the Asylum — Horace Milliken, who has married the descendant of the Kickleburys of the Conqueror, marry a dancing-girl off the stage! ❋ Unknown (2006)
American lady who appears after dinner in the costume of a Spanish dancing-girl; the fact that there is no Spanish butter and that the only good butter comes from France and the passable butter from ❋ Unknown (2004)
His Degas showed the strongly marked shoulder-blades of a dancing-girl, robbing her of voluptuous charm. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)
Theater to a rehearsal of the ballet, and gave Masha Tchibisova, a pretty dancing-girl whom he had just taken under his protection, the coral necklace he had promised her the evening before, and behind the scenes in the dim daylight of the theater, managed to kiss her pretty little face, radiant over her present. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Strange, that the child of a former adept of Eglantine House and an Ephesian dancing-girl should make her life in the arcane pursuits of academia. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
It was claimed he was the child of old Runjeet and a dancing-girl named Jeendan whom he'd married shortly before his death. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
Jeendan plainly knew how to manage her troops, whether by overawing them with royal dignity, or captivating them by appearing unveiled and dressed as a dancing-girl. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
