Sentence examples for dances at a ball from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.

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

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

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".

He delivered brief speeches, followed by quick dances, at a series of balls across Washington, with his schedule not calling for a return to the White House until the small hours of the morning on Wednesday.

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.

When Ti Moune dances at the ball and raises her skirt -- just a little, mind you -- she seems to be wearing leggings or stockings (or apparently knee pads -- see the comments below) of some sort, as if even a glimpse of her legs would be too randy for us.