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Example sentences for "cotillions"

Lexicographically close words:
coteries; coterminous; cotes; cotidie; cotillion; cotillon; cotillons; cotinga; coto; cots
  1. Ay, paint our swarthy billions The richest of vermillions Ere two well-led cotillions Have danced themselves away.

  2. No other dances but cotillions were danced, in the manner of the tedious German quadrilles; the band consisted of negroes.

  3. Cotillions and waltzes were danced, and several of the ladies performed elegantly.

  4. Cotillions and reels were danced to the music of a single violin, and every thing went off pleasantly.

  5. Cotillions and waltzes were the dances performed.

  6. Two cotillions and a waltz, are danced in succession, and there is hardly an interval of two or three minutes between the dances.

  7. When the cotillions were forming for the second set, nearly a dozen young ladies found themselves simultaneously approaching Gordon Fitzsimmons, each with the design of engaging him as a partner.

  8. But I went forward, and said to Miss Lawless, that if she and her friends would come out, and perform their cotillions on the pavement, we would have much pleasure in playing for them.

  9. Do you think Bernstorff has been chosen to dance cotillions with your 'cave dwellers' in Washington or to compliment Senators' wives?

  10. He was grateful to my wife, because she ordered me to dance the cotillions with Countess Henckel, who must dance with somebody who 'ranked,' or sit for five or six hours on a crimson bench.

  11. Illustration: "There were two cotillions on the floor, whirling and twirling in the giddy mazes of the dance, to the voluptuously measured cadence of the 'Arkansas Traveler.

  12. One of the prettiest things afterward was the minuet danced by the four little girls, and after that two or three cotillions were formed.

  13. The contra-dance and cotillions were all the rage.

  14. Perhaps Age only meant to say to me, "Do not stay for the cotillions any more!

  15. I have been listening to the conventional babble of teas and cotillions for so long that you are like a breath of lost youth.

  16. I hear he's a great hand for leading cotillions and balls--the balls you ought to take part in.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotillions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.