The cotillon was a great favourite, and generally closed the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference

"Drake, they want you to lead the cotillon," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

The cotillon in New York is generally danced after supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference

The cotillon-favours were to be of extraordinarily fine quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference

The cotillon was now played, and the preceding bow from the opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

It is almost unnecessary here to illustrate the form of the cotillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference

"Suppose we have a cotillon figure, in order to change partners?" said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The leader must announce after supper the time for the cotillon to begin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference

The girl had a kind of flimsy prettiness which suggested a cotillon favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference

They were all at our cotillon Monday evening, and kept things moving fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

The accessories of the cotillon cost, it appears, more than 400,000 francs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

After supper the cotillon, or German, as it is sometimes called, is danced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference

No sooner was the line open from St. Paul to Winnipeg than the cotillon opened between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference

They skipped past each other and back again as if they were practising for a cotillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

We attended a pretty cotillon in Bozeman last evening and remained overnight at the hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

Forthwith they seized upon all the chairs, and the interminable German cotillon commenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

"Continue your nap," she said; "I have come in search of my cousin, for the last cotillon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It was exquisitely served, and oh, Sallie, your lawn fête and the cotillon were beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference

The arrival of the counterfeiter enabled us to make up a full cotillon without the musicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

So he carried his handsome pupil into the next room and took his place with her in a cotillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference

The woman who brings the greatest number of favors from a cotillon scores an undoubted triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference

As the cotillon closed, she was again in my neighborhood, and her partner led her in my direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference

The dance was a great success, as also were the presents in connection with the cotillon promoted by the Marquis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

Cannot a girl be allowed to sit out perhaps a dance, or a whole cotillon even, without the world coming to an end?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference

They stood at the side door of the ballroom and scanned the laughing couples sitting in rows in the throes of the cotillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference

On these occasions, a carpet cotillon or quadrille has been sometimes indulged in; but it was the exception and not the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

The supper, which is always eaten sitting down, is a great feature of the evening, and there is invariably a cotillon afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

I was at Fayolle's, dancing, and, in the midst of a figure in the cotillon, my head became giddy, and I had to be supported to a seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

The stage coach passes through one; 120 children and a piano crowd inside another; a trunk furnishes a house for cotillon parties to dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference

"I was inviting her for my partner in the cotillon -- what you s'pose?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

The delayed dance was about to begin a most uneven cotillon when Samuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

"Your mother goin 'with you to the cotillon?" asked Sam when he returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

"Then we wouldn't have to go to his ole cotillon this afternoon," Penrod sighed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

Tomorrow is our special afternoon; beginning three o'clock, we dance the cotillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

It's the innocent Willies who look as if all they could do was to lead the cotillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Intrusion of Jimmy] Reference

It was growing very late; there were only two more waltzes before the final cotillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference

Already it is to be perceived that there were in him the makings of a cotillon leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

Next morning Penrod woke in profound depression of spirit, the cotillon ominous before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference