Pickles was so delighted with his own success that he danced a kind of hornpipe all the way home. From Wordnik.com. [Sue, A Little Heroine] Reference
Moreover, he says that you will be the hornpipe of. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
In fact, I could dance a hornpipe here if you liked. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
In the course of the evening Oliver undertook a hornpipe. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
I and Prince Talleyrand danced a double hornpipe with Pauline. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
Then think of his hornpipe -- the very shuffling for a minister. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841] Reference
"In Act III, a hornpipe by Miss Dawson, her first appearance here.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829] Reference
Kenny, whistling a madcap hornpipe, glinted at the table with approval. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Those who took it won't be found drinking rum and dancing the hornpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Where Pirates Still Sail] Reference
Jolly Rogers and our sailors convulsed with hornpipe, to seek the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29] Reference
Tom was talked about: biceps like thighs, now: a hornpipe danced on the hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
His windpipe refuses to furnish the whilom exhilarating tooraloo for his hornpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870] Reference
Goldsmith was nettled by the jest, and, stopping short in the hornpipe, exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
If Will-o'-the-Wisp was aware of the name of her partner in the quartette hornpipe, or. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
Dread whipped out his hornpipe and played another brief melody, and another door opened. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
For this piece of bad taste he ought to be condemned to arrange the sailor's hornpipe, as. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference
It was the very dirk he had won by his well-danced hornpipe on his voyage with M. Champlain. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
Tweedle-dee's performances, to which Will promptly acceded and the quartette hornpipe was on. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
Mr. CUNNINGHAM: I do remember doing the sailor's hornpipe, and I must've been eight years old. From Wordnik.com. [Choreographer Merce Cunningham: An Unconventional Life] Reference
What would you think if they would not dispense with a hornpipe on the tight-rope by Mrs. Webb?. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
Pantomime is to be her line, and she is coming out to – night, in a hornpipe after the tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
Rub-a-dub on the dining-table hammered the furious boy's toes and heels, as he broke out into another hornpipe. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
When invited properly, he would dance a hornpipe, whistling his own music in sharp staccato notes, as from a piccolo. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
Minturn's piazza, that the sailors finished dancing their hornpipe for the big company assembled to greet them in the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
The Honourable Miss Nathan, when we last heard of her, was dancing a hornpipe among a shilling's worth of new laid eggs, at Tivoli. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference
"My affection for the man is so great," wrote Erasmus once, "that if he bade me dance a hornpipe, I should do at once what he bid me.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
"Unless you'd like our next dance together to be the gallows hornpipe," he muttered into her ear, "I suggest we make this convincing.". From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
When the music commences, the smallest motion, or pretence of keeping time with the feet is enough to start the sailor in a vigorous hornpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
Tom was in England now, in the De Frece circuit; had had a triumph at the Portsmouth Hippodrome, as "Topsy Turvy Tommy," dancing a sailor's hornpipe on his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
"Come on, let's get the Skipper to teach us how to dance a hornpipe," and he led the way from the table, quite disregarding the fact that the others had not finished. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
Fierce and impossible yarns followed until Jacques, as if to work off his excitement, jumped into the circle with the swing and the stamp of his newly-learned hornpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
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