Let's see," he goes on, "it ought to be a dark blue print with red polka dots.
The navy blue print dress with the red polka dots was enough for one quick breath, just by itself.
Did they need no older company, now that they looked like grown-up sandpipers except that their vests had no big polkadots splashed over them?
The only decorations they ever wore were big dark polkadots on their vests.
The eggs were creamy white, with brown spots splashed over them--the proper sort of eggs (if only they had been smaller) to tuck beneath a warm breast decorated with pretty polka dots.
Once he speaks of having played a polka for his comrades, and adds that he had been practising a piece learnt three years previously.
Or hath that sham champagne we tasted Turned thy polka to a reel?
A POLKA LYRIC Qui nunc dancere vult modo, Wants to dance in the fashion, oh!
Miss Dane consulted her jeweled tablets, and discovered that the polka quadrille was the very next in order.
You are to dance the polkaquadrille with her, are you not?
Plato recommended it, and Socrates learned the Athenian polka of the day when quite an old gentleman, and liked it very much.
The only advice, therefore, which it is necessary to give to those who wish to dance the polka may be summed up in one word, 'don't.
The young featherheads who are dancing the polka with lorettes at the Jardin Mabille, are so cankered with self-interest, that they don't stand in need of us to explain both sides of the problem to them.
I've got to dance the firstpolka with Miss Golightly,' said Charley.
Instead of this, however, she was permitted to expend an equal amount of energy in every variation of waltz and polka that the ingenuity of the dancing professors of the age has been able to produce.
Johnson was great at the lancers, knowing every turn and vagary in that most intricate and exclusive of dances; and it need hardly be said that the polka with M.
It is a polka step, only very quick, and you take every other turn by yourself; so you have to take your partner up and let him go as quick as possible.
She was one of the first who, with Felix for her partner, danced the Polka upon the Paris stage, in the piece called La Polka en Province.
And, humming the opening bars of a lively polka from the manuscript, he took up his pen and added a few notes.
Then he paused; the polka would not come--the other voice was louder.
The polka redowa and the polkamazourka are modifications of this step to different times.
I can just remember when the polka was considered immoral.
The waltz and polkaused to be considered bad enough to get you kicked out of the churches.
From my own brief experience of life, I think a garden by moonlight is just as dangerous as a conservatory with colored lamps; and a polka in public is less perilous than a mountain excursion, even on donkeys!
Mary Anne usually dances all night, but I only stand up for a quadrille, though Lord George torments me to polka with him.
He had engaged me for the first waltz, and he presently asked me for the first polka after supper; and my card was soon quite full for the whole evening.
Across his shoulder he carried a bundle knotted into an old red handkerchief with a polka spot.
A handkerchief, once red, with polka spots, contained a ragged flannel shirt and a stocking-heel tied with a piece of tape.
THE POLKA Love and poetry--these are what make hours seem like minutes.
But by dint of trying to maintain his aplomb, he became as red as his friend Jolibois; and when the champagne was brought, he left his chair and proposed to Georgette to dance the polka with him.
After watching us for some time, Frederique took her place at the piano and began to play a polka for us.
Now, Willy Willing, how do you like this one, with the big polka dots?
Do you know the polkais coming in again—the dance I mean?
The King, dancing the twenty-fifth polka with Rosalba, remarked with wonder the ring she wore; and then Rosalba told him how she had got it from Gruffanuff, who no doubt had picked it up when Angelica flung it away.
The merry notes of the polka were ground out to a silent accompaniment of tears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
