] [Footnote 341: The rigadoon was a dance for two persons. ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)
It is as marvellous to see such conceited boors under the same roof with so courteous and amiable a damsel, as it would be to see one of their shaggy bears dance a rigadoon with a maiden like the daughter of our host. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The argument from Steve Jobs, Greg Reyes and dozens of others that they didn't understand the "accounting implications" of backdating certainly does tax credulity -- then why engage in the backdating rigadoon? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Meanwhile, wherever Mas'r Andersen might be, and whether he were so much as alive or not, Miss Agatha was not the one that knew; and Flor adapted many a rigadoon to her conjectured feelings, now swaying and bending with sorrow and longing, head fallen, arms outstretched, now hands clasped on bosom, exultant in welcome and possession. ❋ Various (N/A)
And the Doctor looked as if he should like to rigadoon and sashy across as well as the young one he was talkin 'about. ❋ Various (N/A)
I know not -- sixty-live shows with an ill-grace in a rigadoon, but for a minuet: well, well, St. Vitus strengthen me, and I accept thy challenge. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
PHILIP DRUNK AND PHILIP SOBER: _ (Their lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon of grasshalms) _ Clever ever. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
They fought like maddened cats, banging against the cabin walls, whirling in a crazy rigadoon to find an opening for their fists; ❋ Holman Day (1900)
I recognized the man as Godfrey Cradlebow, the handsome fiddler's father, and the boy was none other than the imp whose eyes, scorching and defiant now, had first sent mocking glances back at me while their light-limbed owner kicked out a jaunty rigadoon from under the encircling folds of his sacerdotal vestments. ❋ Sarah P. McLean Greene (1895)
Young Etienne holds her hand by chance, 'Tis the first rigadoon they dance; With parted lips, right thirstily Each rustic tracks them as they fly, And the damsel sly Feels every eye, And lighter moves for each adoring glance. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1891)
Jessie would meet him at the door, and generally they would dance some insane kind of a rigadoon about the floor by way of greeting. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
We possess the means of verifying somewhat as to the nature of the minuet; but after what fashion did our revered grandfather do his rigadoon and his gavot? ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)
She would dance you a rigadoon or cut a pigeon's wing for you very respectably. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
"Alice, dance." -- and dance she would, not in such court-like measures as she had learned abroad, but Some high-paced jig, or hop-skip rigadoon, befitting the brisk lasses at a rustic merry-making. ❋ Unknown (1851)
"Alice, dance." -- and dance she would, not in such court-like measures as she had learned abroad, but some high-paced jig, or hop-skip rigadoon, befitting the brisk lasses at a rustic merry-making. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
There was all the people in the windows and piazzas to the back of the house, in their night-clothes, some screeching as if they had fits; and there was the nigger-wench in her white shimmey, dancing a rigadoon on the grass, and pulling out her wool, and thumping herself like a possessed body in the New Testament. ❋ Unknown (1833)
This rigadoon, like all early and pleasing acquirements, was still recollected with gratitude for the fame it had obtained for her; and notwithstanding the lapse of years, and some rheumatic complaints, she could occasionally introduce some of its original graces into her country-dance. ❋ Unknown (1793)