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Examples
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He never saw the dancing-school nor placed his advertisement for a room in a working-class family.
Chapter 17 2010
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More boys have died from hot-house culture than have died on boats large and small; and more boys have been made into strong and reliant men by boat-sailing than by lawn-croquet and dancing-school.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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At Inauguration balls, President Bush moved like a dancing-school dropout, lurching stiffly through the box step with his wife, Laura.
Texas Two-Step 2007
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Most young men about London have gone through that strange secret ordeal of the dancing-school.
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Why, I have my dear little Miley at a dancing-school with Miss Barwell, Nabob
The Virginians 2006
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He insisted that Jennie send her to dancing-school, and Gerhardt was beside himself with rage and grief.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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So that in a word, expecting a plain diet, coarse lodging, and mean clothes, we were brought up as mannerly and as genteelly as if we had been at the dancing-school.
Moll Flanders 2003
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Going through Aldersgate Street, there was a pretty little child who had been at a dancing-school, and was going home, all alone; and my prompter, like a true devil, set me upon this innocent creature.
Moll Flanders 2003
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Instead, he smiled at tr'Annhwi and all the others, put one forearm across his stomach and the other across his back, and offered them a ludicrous dancing-school bow that impressed nobody and—as intended—affronted many.
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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Instead, he smiled at tr'Annhwi and all the others, put one forearm across his stomach and the other across his back, and offered them a ludicrous dancing-school bow that impressed nobody and—as intended—affronted many.
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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