There were formal balls at all the hotels and they had affairs for the children.

It was like announcing the nobility arriving at a formal ball.

"It's foolish to bring little girls that age to a formal ball, they'd be just as happy at a dancing class!"

He'd not felt this out of place since the first time he'd attended a formal military ball.

Sarah Conway knew exactly how to give an elegant dinner party and a formal ball.

We would have a formal ball the following night.

As though she were dressed for a formal ball, he took her grandly down the stairs.

This was done so that they would have more time to prepare for the evening's entertainment, which was to be a formal ball.

No one on the invitation list could have avoided tonight's formal ball, however.

What do you know, he thought, a formal ball on the high seas.