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Example sentences for "quickstep"

Lexicographically close words:
quicks; quicksand; quicksands; quickset; quicksilver; quiconque; quicquam; quicquid; quicum; quicumque
  1. But it is the farcical little quickstep known by the ridiculous name of "Yankee Doodle" which the nations would do well to consider when straining the patience of the peace-loving and United States.

  2. And the supercilious little quickstep went on: Yankee Doodle came to town Riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his Hat, And called it macaroni.

  3. Matt had just remembered that his six months in the Quickstep were up.

  4. I only put that fellow in the Quickstep to please you.

  5. Wednesday, Mr. Skinner allowed him twenty-two hours for landing his passengers from Eureka to San Francisco and taking on another load for San Pedro, whither the Quickstep was bound on that voyage.

  6. Every passenger aboard was soon desperately seasick, and off Point Reyes so violently did the Quickstep pitch that even some members of the crew became nauseated, among them Matt Peasley.

  7. Promptly at eight o'clock Wednesday morning the Quickstep got away from the dock.

  8. Matt Peasley came nosing in with the Quickstep and loaded a cargo of redwood lumber.

  9. One Halvor Jacobsen has sued the Quickstep and owners for five thousand dollars for injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon him by the captain.

  10. The Quickstep is yours--on one condition.

  11. The Quickstep crossed out next morning, and Mr. Skinner wirelessed her master this message: Your timidity has spoiled San Pedro passenger business.

  12. Three weeks later, when making up to a dock at San Pedro, a strong ebb tide and a mistake in judgment swung the bow of the Quickstep into the end of the dock and a dolphin was torn out.

  13. Cappy wasn't outside Sandy Hook before Mr. Skinner had Matt on the carpet for daring to bring the Quickstep up river without a pilot.

  14. But Matt Peasley was devoting all of his attention to the Quickstep now; and it was well that he did.

  15. But despite the awful buffeting she was receiving the Quickstep never faltered.

  16. The rollicking quickstep of a circus band came dancing over the night to meet the footsore men.

  17. First on one foot, then the other, then clear of his back with both of them twinkling in merry time to the quickstep of the band, her dark hair fluttering from beneath the saucy cap, her hands waving and her eyes sparkling.

  18. The Rogue's March is the quickstep where you come from.

  19. Very gloomy thoughts appeared to fill Blucher's soul, for his bushy eyebrows contracted, the quickstep was more rapid, and the smoke arose in denser masses.

  20. He sat on the sofa, closely wrapped in his dressing-gown, drumming with his hand a quickstep on the table in front of him, while he was blowing clouds of smoke from his long pipe.

  21. This was followed by a rather awkward pause, as there were some high notes in the remaining quickstep which the soprano player said he was sure he could not reach as he was getting "ramp'd" already.

  22. The flails descended on the barn floors with the regularity of the ticking of a clock, or the rhythmic and measured footsteps of a man walking in a pair of clogs at a quickstep speed over the hard surface of a cobbled road.

  23. He left Quickstep Inlet when he was about fifteen years old, naked as the day he was born; ignorant of everything--who he was or what he was, or that the world contained anything similar to him.

  24. The crew called the place Quickstep Inlet because of the panicky and inhuman haste in which they left it.

  25. John quickstep and red stocking quickstep and romanse from Leeclare and departed days and things like them rite across the strete.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quickstep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dance; march; step