Christmas week, had performed more polkas than he had ever danced in his life; and, under the charming tuition of Miss Patty Honeywood, was fast becoming a proficient in the valse a deux temps.
Sitting on opposite sides of the sledge with our polkas carefully adjusted, we slipped over the brink and shot down the hill.
The other drivers, who were behind, saw our predicament and went up-stream, prodding with their polkas until they found solid ice beneath.
Oom Schulpad sat playing between the mat-house and the tent, so that the polkas could be heard equally well in both.
It would be about five or six in the evening, after four or five waltzes and as many polkas had been danced, that these ladies were so charming.
He's the sort of a man who polkas with you first and then cuts your throat," was his next stab.
And here, for once in her life, Beatrice was perfectly agreed with her grandmamma, and she came to life again, and sat forward to join in the universal condemnation of waltzes and polkas that was going on round the table.
Grandmamma announced in her most decided tone that she would have no waltzes and no polkas at her party.
In the afternoon he read or picked the banjo or, sitting down to the little piano he had rented, played over his three pieces, the two polkas and the air of the topical song.
There was sand on the floor, and in the dancing room at the back, where nobody danced, a jaded young man was banging out polkas and quick-steps at a cheap piano.
After the Concerto, some Polkasand Waltzes, which did better please me; for they were a lively Jingle certainly, and not quite unmeaning.
The Tunes played mostly Polkas and Waltzes, though now and then a Piece of Musique of a better Sort; but the Musique little more than an Excuse for a Number of People assembling to see and be seen.
I should say it was a very good polka, as polkas go, and certainly more in the manner of the Catanian maestro than in that of the Leipzig cantor.
There were waltzes, polkas and contraddanze, also games involving dances.
Songs, quadrilles and polkas were dedicated to her, and poets sung in her praise.
Polkas and quadrilles were named after him, and songs were sung in his praise.
Do you swear that these girls' polkasare a fair sample of the other articles in which you deal, with regard to the expense of production to you and the invoice price to your customer in the south?
Was there any material difference in the price of polkas within that period of 18 months?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polkas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
