'The last I saw of him he was dancing an eightsome with that gawky Raven girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come To Grief]

They matched his other acquisitions so well that he decided to make an eightsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

The gawky Raven girl who had danced an eightsome reel with Ellis turned out to be the third daughter of an earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come To Grief]

Romantics can box up the Wessex league clubs into a neat little eightsome reel – Plymouth, Torquay, Exeter and Bournemouth along the coast, Yeovil in the middle and, to the north, Swindon and the two Bristols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating] Reference

The eightsome would meet at one another's houses for a pregame Bloody Mary, then pile into a van and head Downtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference

2. The eightsome reel is a Scottish dance - for how many people?.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2005] Reference

They’re playing an eightsome reel, but nobody knows how to dance it properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conferences are Murder]

“Big fat woman thumping around in the eightsome reel and wee men outside passing half-bottles o’ whisky to each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

Furthermore, Amdi was an eightsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

They went off, and came back from the deep shadows of the trees with glittering swords and more strident music, and louder beating on gongs, and harsher notes on chanters, and a loud booming sound on a narrow, six-foot-six drum with bell-shaped mouth; and the figures danced quickly, going backwards, in circles, and breaking into groups, the swords whirling and flickering beautifully in the moonlight, and the audience clapped hands gently in time, and there was an occasional heugh! as used to be the way in our Highland Reel, before the invention of the -- lowlander, the screaming "eightsome.".    From Wordnik.com.  [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference