Those elderly ladies, who sit on the edge of ballrooms sampling the stuff of humanity between finger and thumb and breathing so evenly that the necklaces, which rise and fall upon their breasts, seem to represent some elemental force, such as the waves upon the ocean of humanity, concluded, a little smilingly, that she would do.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
In our crowded ballrooms, chaperons often ask young men if they will be introduced to their charges.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
His ambition was to dance in all the big ballrooms in the U.S and England.
"The Biography of a Rabbit"
Roy Benson, Jr.