"Now I 'm going to get Sherry, or some of the fellows that do the redowa well, so you can have a real good go before the music stops." ❋ Unknown (1950)
I 'm going to begin with a redowa, because the girls like it, and it 's better fun than square dances. ❋ Unknown (1950)
Maud happened to be playing a redowa up in the parlor, and ❋ Unknown (1950)
Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango. ❋ Roger Thompson Finlay (N/A)
The polka redowa and the polka mazourka are modifications of this step to different times. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
Ashburner made a calculation that, counting in the serenades, the inhabitants of Oldport were edified by waltz, polka, and redowa music (in those days the _Schottisch_ was not), eleven hours out of the twenty-four, daily. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ashburner had seen Edwards driving a magnificent trotter about Oldport, but could not exactly fancy him outside of a horse, and conjectured that he would not make quite so good a figure as when leading the redowa down ❋ Various (N/A)
There was the streaming of lamps and chandeliers, the swell of enchanting music, the whirl of the fascinating polka, redowa or mazurka, while throngs of richly attired and lovely women were constantly enhancing the magnificence of the scene by their arrival. ❋ Edmund Flagg (N/A)
For twenty-five cents I have seen a man at the circus do something more wonderful, -- make a very living bay horse dance a redowa round the amphitheatre on his (it occurs to me that _hind-legs_ is indelicate) posterior extremities to the wayward music of an out-of-town (_Scotice_, out-o'-toon) band. ❋ Various (N/A)
She showed him her ball book with demure satisfaction when he strolled instead of rushed up to claim her for the next, a glorious polka redowa. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Maud happened to be playing a redowa up in the parlor, and Polly came prancing into the room so evidently spoiling for a dance that Tom, who was there, found it impossible to resist catching her about the waist, and putting her through the most intricate evolutions till Maud's fingers gave out. ❋ Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 (1870)
Her perfumed skirts brushed him as she flew by in the redowa, but she never looked up. ❋ May Agnes Fleming (1860)
Looking much gratified, Tom produced the stump of a lead-pencil, and wrote his name with a flourish, saying, as he gave it back, "Now I 'm going to get Sherry, or some of the fellows that do the redowa well, so you can have a real good go before the music stops." ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)
Then the redowa begins, and Charley returns and carries her off. ❋ May Agnes Fleming (1860)
The ball whirled on -- the hours went by like bright, swift flashes, and, from the moment of the redowa, to Sir Everard Kingsland it was one brief, intoxicating dream of delirium. ❋ May Agnes Fleming (1860)
Sir Everard gave it up and went in search of Miss Hunsden, and was accepted by that young lady for a redowa. ❋ May Agnes Fleming (1860)
