1 A sudden burst of music issued from the ark, the prelude of a waltz: and when the side door closed again the listener could hear the faint rhythm of the music.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 2 The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street.
3 Villona played a waltz for Farley and Riviere, Farley acting as cavalier and Riviere as lady.
4 He waited outside the drawing-room door until the waltz should finish, listening to the skirts that swept against it and to the shuffling of feet.
5 At the same moment a clapping of hands and a final flourish of the pianist told that the waltz had ended.
6 Thanks for your beautiful waltz, Miss Daly.
7 The piano was playing a waltz tune and he could hear the skirts sweeping against the drawing-room door.
8 People, perhaps, were standing in the snow on the quay outside, gazing up at the lighted windows and listening to the waltz music.
9 Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of the steps where "Three o'Clock in the Morning," a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door.
10 'It is a waltz, I think,' Miss Larkins doubtfully observes, when I present myself.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 11 I waltz with the eldest Miss Larkins once again.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 12 She expected him to ask her for a waltz, but he did not, and she glanced wonderingly at him.
13 He flushed slightly, and hurriedly asked her to waltz, but he had only just put his arm round her waist and taken the first step when the music suddenly stopped.
14 After the first waltz Kitty went to her mother, and she had hardly time to say a few words to Countess Nordston when Vronsky came up again for the first quadrille.
15 You've got to give me the first waltz and Stu the last one and you've got to eat supper with us.