dancing-academy

Updated: May 9, 2025

In addition to the constant walks which I took with my father, he encouraged me to join a cricket club in the Park, and sent me to Huguenin's gymnasium in Liverpool, to the Cornwallis swimming-baths, and to a dancing-academy kept by a highly ornamental Frenchman, and he bought me an enormous steel hoop, and set me racing after it at headlong speed.

Julian Hawthorne - Hawthorne and His Circle

While in construction it was only less interesting than the dancing-academy of Mr. Edward Ferrero, slightly west of it and forming with it, in their embryonic stage, a large and delightfully dangerous adjunct to our playground, though with the distinction of coming much to surpass it for interest in the final phase.

Henry James - A Small Boy and Others

He was jingling a pair of castanets and dancing a step which an immodest slave could not dance with decency." Such might have been the reflections of a puritan had he entered a modern dancing-academy.

A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge - A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate