The torches were fixed on poles around the floor, for the torch-dance was over. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
The royal party mount the platform, and in honor of the event the torch-dance begins. ❋ Hezekiah Butterworth (1872)
One band relieved another at banquet and dance; meantime the young people who became weary of the pleasures of the table first, withdrew to one end of the long hall for the "torch-dance," or the "cushion-dance," while still the servants at the other end continued to carry in the succession of dishes to the feast; if you wish to count the courses there is still the portly kitchen record. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)
The old Berezowski as usual was on the outer edge of the circle of dancers; in the mazurka and the torch-dance, where it was only necessary to stamp and shout, he had his part; but in the cushion dance, where the kisses came, he failed as usual. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)
We also have eyes, or ought to have; we have hustings, telescopes; we have lights, link-lights and rushlights of an enlightened free Press, burning and dancing everywhere, as in a universal torch-dance; singeing your whiskers as you traverse the public thoroughfares in town and country. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
We also have eyes, or ought to have; we have hustings, telescopes; we have lights, link-lights and rush-lights of an enlightened free Press, burning and dancing everywhere, as in a universal torch-dance; singeing your whiskers as you traverse the public thoroughfares in town and country. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
His speech is wild and wondrous: unearthly Phantasms dancing now their torch-dance round his soul; the soul itself looking out, fire-radiant, motionless, girt together for that great hour! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Edwald hastened to give his hand to his fair bride; and while he advanced with her to the midst of the stately hall, Froda offered his hand for the torch-dance to a noble lady who stood the nearest to him, without farther observing her, and took with her the next place to the wedded pair. ❋ Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr De La Motte-Fouqu�� (1810)
A squire, who had hastened after them, announced that the knightly bridegroom was expected for the torch-dance, and as they returned, ❋ Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr De La Motte-Fouqu�� (1810)
"Nay, Eudora," said Philothea, turning mournfully away: "Your feelings are strangely embittered; the calm light of reason is totally obscured by the wild torch-dance of your passions. ❋ Lydia Maria Francis Child (1841)
