Sentence examples for dance at a ball from inspiring English sources

I'd go and watch a play at Drury Lane, dance at a ball and pay a call on the young Jane Austen.

Performers glide, sweep and sidle to seats at the sides of the stage after their turns center-stage, shadowy onlookers who might be men and women sitting out a dance at a ball or dancers waiting to re-enter a rehearsal.

"When a woman thus coiffed dances at a ball, she is compelled to continually bend down as she passes beneath the chandeliers," the Count of Vaublanc noted in his diary.

BEATRICE GALLATIN GREETED AT A BALL; A Dinner and Dance Given for the Debutante by Her Parents at Pierre's.

Archives|BEATRICE GALLATIN GREETED AT A BALL; A Dinner and Dance Given for the Debutante by Her Parents at Pierre's.

Darcy surprises Elizabeth with a dance offer at a ball at Netherfield, which she grudgingly but politely accepts.

The drumbeat of the White House reminding the news media that Chelsea was off limits made lighthearted public appearances — a cheer at a convention, a dance at an inaugural ball — appear staged.

Barbara and George Bush dance at an inaugural ball.

In 1921 she caused a scandal by performing a risqué dance at a local debutante ball.

Count Rostov dances the Daniel Cooper at a ball, and "all who were in the ballroom looked with smiles of joy at the merry old man".

The first dance at the ball was a cotillion, a patterned social dance that originated in France.