Just as the strongest Ministry prances on to ruin if the Opposition gives no effective check, so it was with Napoleon.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Why does he doff his clothes joyfully, 110 As he skips, and prances, and flaps his wing, As he sidles, leers, and twirls his sting, And dares, as he is, to appear?
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
All shooting is forbidden by the French law, and of course a French proprietor feels it a horrible outrage that while he is not allowed to shoot, some young English officer prances over his ground and bags his hares.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey