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Example sentences for "terpsichorean"

Lexicographically close words:
terns; ternum; tero; teron; teros; terque; terra; terrace; terraced; terraces
  1. On entering Mr. Giovannelli's spacious hall, consecrated on ordinary occasions to the Terpsichorean art, I found it a veritable shrine of the "Diva triformis.

  2. This was indeed a new phase of Spiritualism: the terpsichorean spiritualists generally let their tables do the dancing for them, as Eastern potentates hire their dancing-girls.

  3. Terpsichorean tables and talking hats never had any particular charm for me, because I could always make a table dance, or a hat say anything I wanted it to say.

  4. It is no wonder that the inventor of terpsichorean spectacles nowadays finds himself compelled to get along as best he can without a satisfactory soloist and to rely rather on his handling of a mass of inadequately trained dancers.

  5. What set it apart from all the ballets that had gone before was the subordination of the individual terpsichorean artist to the main body.

  6. Success, if possible at all, would be possible only to a highly trained performer, mistress of every device of the terpsichorean art and elaborately schooled in pantomimic expression.

  7. He has been forced to rely on the maneuvering of masses of girls, possessed of only a rudimentary instruction in the elements of the terpsichorean art.

  8. I must do the jade the justice of admitting that she had no intention of outraging the proprieties by going any further than a nocturnal terpsichorean revel.

  9. Whooping like a Comanche, I continued my hydro-terpsichorean revel until a muffled "Nuff" from Roos called a halt.

  10. In our terpsichorean nomenclature the “calls” might have thus been given: “Forward and back.

  11. I have rarely seen a terpsichorean spectacle that struck my fancy more than that of the little Indian child and his partner, the eagle plume.

  12. It need scarce be said that the advent of the stranger produced some surprise among the Terpsichorean crowd, into the midst of which he had been so unceremoniously projected.

  13. Everybody seemed to like dancing, and no more congenial home for the graces Terpsichorean than Rockley Lodge could possibly be found.

  14. However, to make a long story short, the men did not get drunk, and separated peacefully after the performance of many Terpsichorean novelties.

  15. It was perhaps a week after Veronica's terpsichorean triumph that it suddenly occurred to Marjorie to ask her to reconsider her earlier refusal to join the Lookout Club.

  16. The wild burst of ardent applause that followed her clever terpsichorean effort pointed to the fact that the masked audience was at least possessed of very human young throats.

  17. This began well enough, for, if her terpsichorean abilities still left something to be desired, the Warsaw critics, ever susceptible to feminine charms, went into positive raptures about her personal attractions.

  18. But Ludwig already knew something of the candidate for terpsichorean honours.

  19. And the week we went one of the turns was Professor Some One's Terpsichorean Cats.

  20. We saw those Terpsichorean Cats at a matinee, old man.

  21. Reggie, I'm going round to the Coliseum this minute, and I'm going to dig the date of those Terpsichorean Cats out of them, if I have to use a crowbar.

  22. Our ecclesiastical friend, the Reverend Spencer Abbott, has also taken unto himself a wife, and is married to Miss Angela Gogglemush, second daughter of the distinguished inventor of the Terpsichorean Ointment.

  23. The Alhambra audiences were drawn by an exhibition of terpsichorean art and female beauty.

  24. At the Alhambra it was the duty of this individual to support the figure of Pitteri as she made a semicircle in the air, and to hold her when she assumed those poses which alternated her spells of purely terpsichorean exercise.

  25. Then, as later in Salt Lake, their prophet led them through the mazy evolutions of the terpsichorean numbers and was the most conspicuous figure at all their social gatherings.

  26. In this lunar spot-light, in air almost sentiently sweet with the perfumes of gardenia and fern, the magic of these Terpsichorean necromancers is practised.

  27. Indeed, of the Terpsichorean Art, it has been truly observed "That deprived of the imitative principle (i.

  28. Cybele was supposed by the Greeks to have taught dancing on Mount Ida to the Corybantes, and they also say that it was in their country that Apollo revealed the Terpsichorean Art, and that of Music and Poetry.

  29. As the performers entered the building in view of the spectators, we are able to state that beauteous Terpsichorean nymphs go about the world disguised in dingy calico, and only appear in their true colors upon the stage.

  30. But what joy, when the beauteous Terpsichorean nymph bounds upon the scene, rosy with paint, glistening with spangles, robust with cotton and cork, and bewildering with a cloud of gauzy skirts!

  31. She practised the terpsichorean art with such success that one day she danced into favour with an Italian marquis who honoured her with the gift of his name and rank, after which he shot himself.

  32. The Szekler dance resembles no other terpsichorean exercise, nor is it by any means easy of execution.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terpsichorean" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ballerina; dance; dancer; dancing; geisha