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"Two-step" Quotes from Famous Books

... playing an infectious two-step. At the girl's nod Jean beckoned one of her party, a tall, handsome boy who throughout the subsequent dance babbled into Lydia's ear an incessant paean in praise ...

— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace

... cried, impatiently, at one time when in the height of his power, to his Minister of War. "Suppose when I was crossing the Alps my soldiers had been of your dancing sort. How far would I have got if every time the band played a two-step my grenadiers had dropped their guns to pirouette over those snow-white wastes? Let the diplomats do the dancing. For soldiers give me men to whom the polka is a closed book and the ...

— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs

... education is on the bum, Mr. Silver," says Morgan. "The picture is 27 inches by 42; and it is called 'Love's Idle Hour.' It represents a number of cloak models doing the two-step on the bank of a purple river. The cablegram said it might have been brought to this country. My collection will never be complete without that picture. Well, so long, gents; us ...

— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... familiar terms. The old man with the chin beard made an official entree from the wing, picked up the drum and became a part of the orchestra. The subscribers had begun to arrive, and when the first two-step struck up there were eight or ten couples on the floor. They held on to each other closely, with no outstretched arms as is the usual form, and they revolved very slowly around and around the room. The young men had smooth faces, patent leather boots, very smart cravats and ...

— The Woman Who Toils - Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls • Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst

... her, his well-shaped head in something of a whirl. In another minute he was off with Miss Avery upon a gallant two-step. ...

— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

Words linked to "Two-step" : ballroom dance, dance, trip the light fantastic toe, ballroom dancing, trip the light fantastic