Any foreign General at the head of fifty thousand trained, picked troops would risk it, and cut an 'entrechat' for joy of the chance. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
But Sigismund did no further mischief that night, except that, in achieving a superb entrechat, he alighted with his whole weight on the miniature foot of his pretty partner, which he well-nigh crushed to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
Throwing his body up to a great height for a moment, he leans back, his legs extended, beats an entrechat-sept, and, slowly turning over onto his chest, arches his back and, lowering one leg, holds an arabesque in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference
The 'Twickenham' seems to perform a sort of educated monkey kind of ridiculously decorous pirouette and entrechat before the. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
The 'Twickenham' seems to perform a sort of educated monkey kind of ridiculously decorous pirouette and entrechat before the 'Pryme.'. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
She flung aside her memory of the entrechat and the pirouette, the studied technique of the ballet; but in so doing she unveiled her own soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference
Mr. Edgeworth excelled me so much, that I sat down upon the ground, and burst out a-crying; he could actually complete an entrechat of ten distinct beats, which I could not accomplish!. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Lovell Edgeworth]
But Taglioni's discontent impelled her to spend every spare moment whirling on her big toe, practicing her entrechat, or laboring over the art of smiling, naturally, with aching toes, aching back, aching thighs, and solar plexus almost exhausted from the unnatural strain. From Wordnik.com. [Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers] Reference
Mr. Edgeworth and I were scholars of the famous, Aldridge; and once when we practised together, Mr. Edgeworth excelled me so much, that I sat down upon the ground, and burst out a-crying; he could actually complete an entrechat of ten distinct beats, which I could not accomplish!. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir] Reference
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