"Why are the Whigs like the toes of a dancing-master?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference

Major Gilbert was a compositor and also a dancing-master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

I am told there is a very good dancing-master at Leipsig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

The judges were Meniscus the dancing-master, and my brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Miton, a dancing-master, who enters just as Benoit disappears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Do you mind your dancing while your dancing-master is with you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

A good deal assisted by bad company and a French dancing-master.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Stoops to Conquer] Reference

“By which the poor dancing-master got a cudgelling for nothing!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

If we are irritated by the dancing-master dandyism which made him write.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

In 1710, Marcel, the renowned dancing-master, introduced it into England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

It sounds ridiculously to bid you study with your dancing-master; and yet I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

In this very piece the archangel has all the air of a French dancing-master; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

Dismissing her dancing-master by reason of jealousy, he began instead a course in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

A dancing-master worked all winter to teach it to the performers of the last season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

He pointed out his toes like a dancing-master; but carried his head like a potentate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

The court poet announces the noon hour, and the exhibition of the other dancing-master is postponed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference

A confounded French dancing-master calling himself a count, and daring to fall in love in our family!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

“I remembered that you had performed to that very tune with the dancing-master at Kensington, my dear!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Chancellor of Oxford, licensed in 1676 to exercise the profession of a dancing-master within the university.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Pantomime] Reference

Queen Elizabeth, after admiring a gentleman's dancing, refused to look at the dancing-master, who did it better.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference

So a dancing-master might criticise the movements of an athlete, or the writhings of St. Sebastian shot with arrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

I can fit out the dancing-master easily enough, but am not so certain about the barber, the chauffeur, and the aviator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

I have no respect for these warriors of hair-powder and lace, who wear stays and learn to march from the dancing-master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

A French dancing-master could never have taught him that timid look — that awkward address — that bashful manner —.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Stoops to Conquer] Reference

To which Charmides replied: How like a flatterer you are! one would think you had set yourself to puff the dancing-master. 61.    From Wordnik.com.  [Symposium] Reference

Remember to take the best dancing-master at Berlin, more to teach you to sit, stand, and walk gracefully, than to dance finely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

The author was by profession a dancing-master; his name is not to be found in any biographical dictionary, yet, it is evident that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Pantomime] Reference

And when the dancing-master came, Betsinda learned along with Angelica; and when the music-master came, she watched him, and practiced the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

Toby picked his way like a dancing-master, and though the road was rough, never once did he stumble; he still bore himself gallantly for the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

English king called the Prussian "my brother the sergeant;" the Prussian retaliated by calling the English king "my brother the dancing-master.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference

The account-book shows that after this incident the young ladies did not diminish their attention to the harpsichord, guitar, and dancing-master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

Politeness with him, assumed the airs and grimaces of a French dancing-master, which personage he was not unfrequently and not inaptly said to resemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

He is inaugurating the dancing-master policy: "By your leave, my dear sir, we will have a fight; that is, if you are sufficiently fortified; no hurry; take your own time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

He sent me to the dancing-master in London, but it was too late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference

Ben Todds was ostentatiously deliberate: his party said he was no dancing-master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

You think you can always tell if a man has learned his society carriage of a dancing-master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlog Studies] Reference