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  • Ai lernd 2 danse a cachuca fr reel! it wuz elebenty kinds uv win and awsum!

    Invisible - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • April 29, 2008 at 9:31 am mee dunno what is “cachuca,” tho.

    Invisible - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Do not imagine that you have effected much change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera-morbus, and because your pourree is called the cachuca.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Last time he told me that he gave me three hundred lines for dancin 'the cachuca in Number Ten dormitory.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Many times before had I stepped off a solo-cachuca to the staccato pleasing of a fragment of slate frame, upon which my tutor was a gifted performer, but never until that day did I accompany myself with words.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Sometimes they said she was an equestrian, and it was at Astley's, and not in the manufacturing districts, that the banker had first seen her; nay, some there were ready to swear that they themselves had beheld her leaping through gilded hoops, and dancing the cachuca upon six barebacked steeds in that sawdust-strewn arena.

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

  • Do not imagine that you have effected much change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera-morbus, and because your pourree is called the cachuca.

    Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

  • Now, follow me down into any of the old fields that lie between the river and the swamp, while the ladies can stand upon spacious galleries that surround the house, and tell by the quick report of guns our success; the streaming light from "the torch," will, to them, from the distance, look like an ignis fatuus dancing the cachuca in the old field.

    The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

  • Do not imagine that you have effected much change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera-morbus, and because your pourree is called the cachuca.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • "By my cachuca di caballero (upon my honor as a gentleman)," shrieked out Ros d'Eroles, convulsed with laughter, "I will send it to the Bishop of Leon for a crozier."

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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