Any foreign General at the head of fifty thousand trained, picked troops would risk it, and cut an 'entrechat' for joy of the chance. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Robert leaped to his feet and executed a stylish pirouette across the black-and-white crazed rug; Gordon joined him at his halfway mark, and they finished together with an entrechat. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2010)
But Sigismund did no further mischief that night, except that, in achieving a superb entrechat, he alighted with his whole weight on the miniature foot of his pretty partner, which he well-nigh crushed to pieces. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Throwing his body up to a great height for a moment, he leans back, his legs extended, beats an entrechat-sept, and, slowly turning over onto his chest, arches his back and, lowering one leg, holds an arabesque in the air. ❋ Acocella, Joan (1999)
The most difficult part of the routine as far as I was concerned was the entrechat, something I had just been taught. ❋ V.C. Andrews (1998)
She flung aside her memory of the entrechat and the pirouette, the studied technique of the ballet; but in so doing she unveiled her own soul. ❋ Carl Van Vechten (1922)
But Taglioni's discontent impelled her to spend every spare moment whirling on her big toe, practicing her entrechat, or laboring over the art of smiling, naturally, with aching toes, aching back, aching thighs, and solar plexus almost exhausted from the unnatural strain. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Dancing must mean something more to him than a whirling and twirling of human beings -- he should at the least know the distinctive styles and figures of different countries, and not confuse an _entrechat_ with a _pirouette_, should be aware of the meaning of the terms _arabesque_ and _rond de jambe_, and understand to some extent the conventional language and history of grand ballet. ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)
Mr. Edgeworth excelled me so much, that I sat down upon the ground, and burst out a-crying; he could actually complete an entrechat of ten distinct beats, which I could not accomplish! ❋ Ed (1896)
The 'Twickenham' seems to perform a sort of educated monkey kind of ridiculously decorous pirouette and entrechat before the 'Pryme.' ❋ George Meredith (1868)
The 'Twickenham' seems to perform a sort of educated monkey kind of ridiculously decorous pirouette and entrechat before the ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Jacobi made an _entrechat_, freed Louise from the work-table, and engaged her for the first _anglaise_ of the first ball. ❋ Fredrika Bremer (1833)
Mr. Edgeworth and I were scholars of the famous, Aldridge; and once when we practised together, Mr. Edgeworth excelled me so much, that I sat down upon the ground, and burst out a-crying; he could actually complete an entrechat of ten distinct beats, which I could not accomplish! ❋ Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1780)
From the depths of the stage with a single leap, assemblé entrechat-dix, he flies towards the first wing. [ ❋ Acocella, Joan (1999)
It put me off balance, but I didn’t realize it until I finished the entrechat and began to pirouette. ❋ V.C. Andrews (1998)
