Usage examples for dalliance
-
Swift
upon
such
discoveries,
she
would
execute
a
flank
march
across
the
few
steps
of
garden
and
steal
into
the
house,
noiselessly
ascend
the
stairs,
and
catch
the
offender
red-
handed
at
this
public
dalliance.
– Miss Mapp by Edward Frederic Benson
-
Their
sacrifice
of
character
to
situation,
their
devotion
to
theatrical
effectiveness,
their
lack
of
moral
purpose,
their
dalliance
with
the
artificial
and
abnormal
aspects
of
passion,
and
their
disregard
for
the
limits
of
blank
verse,
all
these
characteristics
furnished
examples
eagerly
followed
by
the
dramatists
of
the
next
generation,
examples
that
did
not
promote
in
tragedy
a
true
or
comprehensive
or
noble
reflection
of
life.
– Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
-
They
met
Celia's;
and
there
was
something
latent
in
their
brown
depths
which
prompted
him,
after
a
brief
dalliance
of
interchanging
glances,
to
look
again
at
the
swings.
– The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic