My last remarks hold good with the fourth mazurka, which is bleak and joyless till, with the entrance of A major, a fairer prospect opens. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
What you call a mazurka, yes. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
I asked her for a mazurka, and tried to talk to her. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character] Reference
He labels it, "From the famous mazurka of Schubert.". From Wordnik.com. [Salvati dunque e scolpati] Reference
“Have you asked her to dance the mazurka with you?”. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
The polka had been finished, and a vigorous mazurka began. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
She fancied that in the mazurka everything must be decided. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
The figure of the mazurka grew stranger and more complicated. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
She looked forward with a thrill at her heart to the mazurka. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
'The mazurka can do that sometimes,' the countess said, laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
All the same I again have the honour to engage you for the mazurka. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
She had refused five partners, and now she was not dancing the mazurka. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
“Yes, Stiva told me you danced the mazurka with him, and that he ...”. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
“You are going to dance the mazurka with her?” he asked in a solemn tone. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
“I shall sleep badly to-night,” she said to me when the mazurka was over. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
The rhythm of a mazurka was in her ears and she sang louder, trying to drown it. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
The powerful bass voice of the leader of the mazurka rang out: 'Ladies' ronde! '. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
And now the mazurka came to an end and we separated — until we should meet again. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
September 11, 2008 at 1:05 am limbo mazurka ninelebenty-step old fashyund polka q. From Wordnik.com. [I haz a kid. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
I went out alone, and, meeting Princess Mary I asked her to keep the mazurka for me. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
“Please, how could I possibly ... but in that case may I ask you for a mazurka?”. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers and Sons] Reference
Helene, not having a suitable partner, herself offered to dance the mazurka with Boris. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
The mazurka part is how the poem 'turns' on its one-word lines, all of them adjectives. From Wordnik.com. [John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing] Reference
Does a discussion of the Lydian mode really enhance the layman's enjoyment of a mazurka?. From Wordnik.com. [Ganz's copious, commanding Chopin project] Reference
Denisov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself with his handkerchief, sat down by. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
“Because,” I added, “the Princess promised long ago to dance the mazurka with me.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
The fact that he did not during the quadrille ask her for the mazurka did not trouble her. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
The mazurka came to an end, and already some of the guests were saying good-bye to Grandmamma. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood] Reference
But now is the light headed dance, the fretful mazurka, of an army that knows it can never arrive. From Wordnik.com. [Sion Simon's Totalitarian Mazurka] Reference
Anonymous said ... actually, polka isn't a dance native to poland. the mazurka is./smart assy-ness. From Wordnik.com. [On it. Under it. With others.] Reference
The week before, Kitty had told her mother of a conversation she had with Vronsky during a mazurka. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Countess Nordston found Korsunsky, with whom she was to dance the mazurka, and told him to ask Kitty. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Vronsky saw her, coming across her in the mazurka, he did not at once recognize her, she was so changed. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Knowing that Denisov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
He remembered the academy of dancing where he had been instructed as a small boy in the polka, the mazurka, deportment and calisthenics. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
Polonaises - another Polish dance form, longer and more stately than the mazurka. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
You'll hear two other etudes April 13 plus three nocturnes, a mazurka, the haunting. From Wordnik.com. [Durangoherald.com]
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