"Two-step" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reached the roof of the hardware building. Thence it was an easy task to get on top of the structure in which the dance was being held. They could hear the music below them, and the sound of merry feet tripping to the melody of a two-step. ...
— Frank Roscoe's Secret • Allen Chapman
... hornpipe!... A fantasia on the corpse of a representative of the people!... The chloroform polka!... The two-step of the conquered goggles! Olle! Olle! The blackmailer's fandango! Hoot! Hoot! The McDaubrecq's fling!... The turkey trot!... And the bunny hug!... And the grizzly bear!... The Tyrolean dance: tra-la-liety!... Allons, enfants de la partie!... Zing, ...
— The Crystal Stopper • Maurice LeBlanc
... funny it was when you sent it? It's funnier than any of the books of Moses, without being bloody. What a dear, innocent old soul the Bishop is! How sincerely he believes he is reasoning when he is merely doing a roguish two-step down the grim corridor of the eternal verities—with a little jig here and there, and a pause to flirt his frock airily in the face of some graven image of Fact. Ah, he is so weirdly innocent. Even ...
— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson
... dark before that frolic ended, and the ships were a fairy spectacle of electric lights, the band's strains floating across the water as light feet tripped to the inspiring strains of waltz or two-step. ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... you to handle it?" she shrieked, as the Rowdy Cart bit its way through a stone fence and began to dance a two-step over ...
— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart
... up and dance the snakentine dance every time you take a trick. It looks more genteel and picturesque to do the two-step. ...
— Get Next! • Hugh McHugh
... some Hungarian music, and they all danced, seized by the spirit. Gerald was marvellously exhilarated at finding himself in motion, moving towards Gudrun, dancing with feet that could not yet escape from the waltz and the two-step, but feeling his force stir along his limbs and his body, out of captivity. He did not know yet how to dance their convulsive, rag-time sort of dancing, but he knew how to begin. Birkin, when he could get free from ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... I'd slide, I'd jazz, I'd glide, I'd fox-trot, one- and two-step, And show with pardonable pride My skill ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 14, 1919 • Various
... sighed Kathleen; "I haven't the slightest influence with him. Look at him now!"—as he laughingly passed his arm around her and made her two-step around the room, protesting, rosy, deliciously helpless in the arms of this tall young fellow who held her inflexibly ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers |
