What she was feeling was not clear, for there was confusion in her between the two scenes somewhere--as though the brilliant ballroom lay set against the dark background of the lane beneath the quiet stars.
Like a small, rapid cinema-picture the dazzling ballroom passed along the dark throat of the deserted lane.
Two pictures she watched simultaneously--the gay ballroom and the lane that ran east and west.
It was nearly five o'clock in the morning, and though the music could still be heard from the ballroom in the Semiramis, the night had begun to wane upon the river.
There were two men dressed as apaches in velvet trousers and red scarves, like a hundred others in the ballroom below, and both were masked.
I looked into the ballroomas if I was searching for someone.
From the lower ballroom the high, clear note of a trumpet rings out, silencing the music of the bandsmen.
At present the progress of the Tango, in particular, is hampered by the fact that hardly two people in the same ballroom will be found in agreement as to what steps constitute that dance.
Apart from their importance in any discussion of ballet work, familiarity with them greatly aids the acquisition of ballroom dances.
These, however, are polished out of any semblance to character dances; they are of the ballroom and infinitely removed from the soil.
Direct practical instruction is furnished on the subject of present-day ballroom dancing, to the extent of clear and exact directions for the performance of steps now fashionable in Europe and America.
The costume probably was as surprising on the stage then as it would be in a ballroom now.
In the ballroom polkas, valses, and mazurkas followed each other endlessly until the pale dawn appeared, and the cottage fires were lit.
Soon the ballroom was empty, save for the old cellist, who had gone to sleep with his arms round his instrument.
It was past two o'clock, and the ballroom was thinly occupied, when Mr. Smithson's party went there.
The King left the ballroom soon after midnight, and retired to his apartments; the Queen remained dancing for some time longer.
Her withdrawal was the signal for the company to depart, and soon the ballroom was deserted and in darkness.
By the time that they had strolled around the ballroom scarlet spots glowed in her cheeks.
He was much in love with his young wife, and, as she was not here, the ballroom floor had no attractions for him.
The big ballroomwas already two thirds as well filled as it could be with comfort.
This room, which was intended to serve as a ballroom at need, was next to two large drawing-rooms.
As he stood against the wall, unconscious of the curious glances directed towards him, the music ceased, and the dancers came pouring out of the ballroom to seek the fresher air without.
On the night after the Gymkhana the great little world of Lahore was again disporting itself, with unabated vigour, in the pillared ballroom of the Lawrence Hall.
It was a thirsty evening; a relief to be quit of the ballroom and get a breath of masculine fresh air.
In another part of the ballroom Lord Henry and Cleopatra were trying to entertain one another, and both of them were perspiring freely from the efforts they were making.
I entered theballroom with colors flying and the loveliest girl in all the world upon my arm.
But as I approached the Moorish arch of the ballroom doorway I caught a glimpse of Don Pedro in the anteroom.
Already I had had occasion to make my bows to the fashionably costumed dames and misses whose gay talk and manners lent to the Hall more the aspect of a ballroom than that of a house of worship or a legislative chamber.
I was more than content to keep back and look on, while my ears drank in the seductive melody of mingled guitar and violin and singing voices which floated down the ballroom from the stand of the musicians.
It made her desperate--so desperate that she finally quitted the ballroom altogether in Jerry's company, and remained invisible till people were beginning to take their departure.
When she entered the ballroom at length her husband was by her side, but neither by word nor look did she acknowledge his presence there.
It was the last evening but one: in the Imperial a suite of fourteen rooms had been lighted up around the great ballroom for a ball.
The ballroom was at the back of the palace; the tall, balconied windows were open and looked across their balustrades upon the shadows of the park of plane-trees.
She felt an aching melancholy; a mist hazed over her eyes; and the lights of the ballroom shimmered before her as if through water.
From where they sat they could look through several large drawing-rooms into the ballroom beyond.
I saw from your looks as you left the ballroomthat something was wrong, and I am afraid I know what it is.
He was still in the ballroom when he got the message.
We will prove that this football player was not seen in the ballroomafter the hour of eleven P.
Muffled, the music and the sounds of the ballroom came faint and far to them; star-made shadows danced at their feet.
It developed beyond doubt that the football man had not been seen since his one brief appearance on the ballroom floor.
A number of his sketches were shown at the exhibition, a couple of landscapes, a ballroom scene and a theater subject, beside a little mediaeval subject in gouache.
The door from the ballroom led first into a long scantily furnished antechamber, hung in yellow, and then into the street.
At two o'clock on this night Caroline Childers came up out of the crowded ballroom for a moment's breathing, and sat down on the Bed Bench.
In the left corner of the ballroom she saw the cream of society gathered together.
And she was not a girl who had gone the stale round of balls till every face in the ballroom was familiar and tiresome.
She was not like a girl at her first ball, for whom all faces in the ballroom melt into one vision of fairyland.
THE DANCE There is a lesser formality, a greater gayety in the ballroom of to-day.
For it is undoubtedly the gayly-colored dance frock of the miss of the twentieth century, and the strikingly immaculate dance suit of her partner that gives to the ballroom to-day much of its splendid brilliance.
We have mentioned these facts about the Reign of Terror to show what effect clothes do have on the spirit, and incidentally to show what the ballroom owes to dress.
If a dance is scheduled to be held in the ballroom of a hotel, the guests who are invited to dinner may be served in the dining-room of that hotel.
And it is safe to say that some of our austere granddames would feel righteously indignant if they were suddenly brought back to the ballroom and forced to witness some of the modern dance innovations!
The well-mannered person is known by his or her calm conduct and gentle manners whether it be in the ballroom or at the football game.
To lounge in the dressing-room, smoking and chatting with other gentlemen is both unfair to the hostess and essentially rude in the matter ofballroom etiquette.
They stand at the door of the ballroom to welcome guests, and they may either offer their hands or bow in greeting.
It is a strangely companionable and levelheaded romance which pervades the ballroom and makes everyone, young and old, man and woman, want to get out on the floor and dance to the tune of the pretty melodies.
But there is an etiquette of sport and games, just as there is an etiquette of the ballroom and dinner table.
As these arrive, they divest themselves of their wraps, in the dressing-rooms provided for the purpose, and then are received in the ballroom by the host and the chaperons.
But the ballroom of good society, must retain its dignity even while it indulges in the new "romance of the dance.
Margaret, astonished, took them back with thanks, and wished a moment later, that she had asked this good-natured young person to let her go into the ballroom with her party.
Margaret's seat was in such a conspicuous position that it seemed as if all the couples who crushed past her in and out of the ballroom must take in the whole fact of her being neglected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ballroom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
