In music, a saraband is a distinctive style of dance in triple time. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
A saraband is a piece of dance music, Italian in origin; and that was a very beautiful composition. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War] Reference
The saraband ceased in mid-leap and the otter gaped at him in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
So I chose to play some music, a saraband from the "Sonata for Violin" alone in D minor. From Wordnik.com. [My First 79 Years] Reference
I his saraband his song partners in sunset silent separate beings in the twilight we circle each other. From Wordnik.com. [Andalusia] Reference
Elsie rattled out the triple measure of a saraband. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
Périgny and dance the saraband before his peasant girls. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Cloak] Reference
We'll dance a merry saraband from here to drowsy Samarcand. From Wordnik.com. [The Mucker] Reference
Needle, 20,000 devils dancing a saraband on the point of a, 216. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
Devils, 20,000, dancing a saraband on the point of a needle, 216. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
The theme itself has the aspect of a saraband, or a solemn dance. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"Did the other three advance Singing to their angelic saraband.". From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
"But I have read that M. le Cardinal de Richelieu danced a saraband.". From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Necklace] Reference
Ma'mselle danced a Russ saraband with great vigour, grace, and expression. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
So I began a saraband by Purcell, a jolly thing that makes one see a plump, sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Soldier] Reference
"Cantando al loro angelico carribo," and translating carribo by saraband, a kind of Moorish dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
We must dance to the vernal saraband while we can: Spring is so short in this norland country of ours. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
Instead of the former vast repertory, the stately pavone, the graceful and dignified saraband, the wild. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
Somewhere there was a moon, for scurrying clouds were dancing a witches 'saraband across a faintly clearer sky. From Wordnik.com. [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference
It became a traditional movement of the suite during the Baroque period, and all of Bach's cello suites include a saraband. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
The saraband is of a very serious and melodious turn, and is about as near a sustained lyric melody as Bach ever got upon the piano. From Wordnik.com. [The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations] Reference
Going and entering, perched on the cover or fluttering round the room, for more than three hours they continued their frenzied saraband. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
But that would mean guests would walk through the shower part to get the the toilet? saraband on April 14th 2010 at 7: 14pm view saraband's. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
They trod a saraband. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
And danced a stately saraband. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
I was afraid that you preferred the light and trivial coranto to the graceful saraband. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War] Reference
Turn all to saraband. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
They trod a saraband. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
My cymbals and my saraband. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas] Reference
And danced a stately saraband. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
And sung and danced my saraband. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas] Reference
And sung and danced my saraband. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas] Reference
Francisco's saraband says on the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Complete] Reference
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