How To Use Schottische In A Sentence
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Look at the Highland schottische, where you spun round and howled, and the old galop to the tune
Swan Song
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Dinah danced with Bobby again, and then Jim, and then Old Sam, who had patented a kind of schottische-rhumba combination that was the dread of every woman in the Park.
A Grave Denied
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My eyes on the retreating form of my son, I said absently," It is not a waltz, Emerson, it is a schottische.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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From reel to schottische and from schottische to reel, foursome and eightsome, they kept him playing, ever asking for more, till the gloaming passed into moonlight and still they were not done.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
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She was perfectly willing for me to dance until 12 o'clock at the imminent peril of my going to sleep on the after-watch -- but then she would top off with a very inconsistent sermon on dancing in general; ending with a terrific broadside aimed at that heresy of heresies, the 'schottische'.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
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As the minstrel show emerged, American publishers sought to attract amateur musicians and provided a flow of spirituals, gospel songs, polkas, and Schottisches, as well as innumerable sentimental ballads and salon pieces.
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Okay, after 11 years I've only figured out how to do the Grand March and a schottische, but it's a start.
Olympics, amateur athletes, disability and getting OUT THERE
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I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schottisched with a step peculiar to myself—and the kangaroo.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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The Canadian schottische and co were the dances that people did at the Saturday night bible class dances that passed for teenage social life in early 1960s Dunedin.
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He reconjured moonlight schottische dances on the decks of a steamer run by lovable country people, “simple-hearted folk and overflowing with good-fellowship and the milk of human kindness.”
Mark Twain
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The Home circle: a collection of piano-forte music consisting of the most favorite marches, waltzes, polkas, redowas, schottisches, galops, mazurkas, quadrilles, dances, etc.
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Ma was delighted with her trip, but she was disgusted with the girls for allowing me to embrace and kiss them -- and she was horrified at the 'schottische' as performed by Miss Castle and myself.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
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And he did, but all the time his eyes were on Berenice, who was caught up by one youth and another of dapper mien during the progress of the evening and carried rhythmically by in the mazes of the waltz or schottische.
The Titan
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There must be routs and balls beneath sparkling chandeliers, where young gallants whirl sloe-eyed, bare-shouldered girls in the schottische and the carmagnole.
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They even had time to dance "square dances," quadrilles, and "lancers"; they also danced the "racquette," and schottisches and polkas, and such whims as the "Portland Fancy.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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They waltzed, schottisched, polkaed and danced until everybody was tired and drunk.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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He knew four dances, two spring-dances, a halling1and an old, so-called Napoleon waltz; but he had been obliged gradually to turn the halling into a schottische by taking it in different time; and in the same way a springdance had to do duty as a polka-mazurka.
Chapter IV
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There must be routs and balls beneath sparkling chandeliers, where young gallants whirl doe-eyed, bare-shouldered girls in the schottische and the carmagnole.
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First I needed ‘Cotton-Eyed Joe’ and the schottische.
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There must be routs and balls beneath sparkling chandeliers, where young gallants whirl sloe-eyed, bare-shouldered girls in the schottische and the carmagnole.