167 collocations for claps

Thrackles after an instant came and sat beside me and clapped his big hand over my mouth.

and you might have knocked me down with a feather, in a manner of speaking, when I clapped eyes on him setting here.

The Gallic rooster shall "cackle, cackle, clap his wings and crow," Unter der Linden.

He clapped the hat on his head, and looked out cautiously.

Sound, Roger!" Hereupon he of the ruddy cheek clapped horn to lip and blew amain until his cheek grew redder yet, what time the heralds and pursuivants and marshals of the field debated together if it were lawful for a nameless knight to couch lance 'gainst one of noble blood.

"Well hit, by Jove," says little Osborne, with the air of a connoisseur, clapping his man on the back.

" "Marry," cried Little John, clapping his palms together for joy, "thy bidding fitteth my liking like heft to blade.

" The Seventeen Little Bears clapped their little paws and cried, "Tell it again, tell it again!"

will think your price too much:' 'Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.' All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, 'Do; and we go snacks.' Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door; 'Sir, let me see your works and you no more.' * *

Then clap the glass suddenly over the bitten part, and it will become attached, and hold on to the flesh.

Your Sister frets this morning, and does turn her eyes upon me, as people on their headsman; she does chafe, and kiss, and chafe again, and clap my cheeks; she's in another world.

Alec Naylor clapped his cap back on his head.

There he is, a monkey indeed; but you catch him young, clap a pair of breeches on him, and an old red jacket, and oblige him to dance a saraband on the stones of a street, or perch upon the shoulder of Bruin, equally out of his natural element, which is a cave among the woods.

While we were at this repast, our guides, starting as if they had caught a sound (though we heard none save the horrid bursting of water), looked down, and one of them, clapping two dirty fingers in his mouth, made a shrill whistle.

"Is it not enough for a man to turn pirate for?" and thereupon burst out a-laughing and clapped down the lid again.

Upon this the whole company one after another, go into it; but as it did not fit any of them, last of all Osiris lays himself down in it, upon which the conspirators immediately ran together, clapped the cover upon it, and then fastened it down on the outside with nails, pouring likewise melted lead over it.

I caught the fellow who had laid the fuse, tied the whole thing round his neck, clapped a pistol to his ear, and marched him before me into the town.

Then before I could ask further he clapped his spurs into his horses ribs and rode, stomach to earth, upon his way.

The listener clapped his ear to the crevice.

I clapped applause, and straight produced my gifts: A staff for Daphnis'twas the handiwork Of nature, in my father's acres grown:

No member of the corps entered or left her office without clapping heels together and saluting.

[Footnote 1: Once when Allen was rehearsing the supers in the Church Scene in "Much Ado about Nothing," we overheard him show the sense in Shakespeare like this: "This 'Ero let me tell you is a perfect lady, a nice, innercent young thing, and when the feller she's engaged to calls 'er an 'approved wanton,' you naturally claps yer 'ands to yer swords.

He made him take off his all too characteristic spectacles, and clapped the bonnet on his head.

shouted Hal, clapping Charlie on the back.

"Aye, and I'll ha' seen most of the world since I last clapped my een on you, Harry," he said.

167 collocations for  claps