The Sheriff's men, seeing their master thus fleeing for his life, thought that it was not their business to tarry longer, so, clapping spurs to their horses, they also dashed away after him.

she cried, wildly, clapping her hands together; 'too late!

But presently I was conscious of one pair of hands clapping more than all the rest.

She kept referring to her baby as 'a Jones' until father caught the absurd idea of letting it go at that, and had me christened merely 'A. Jones.'" "How delightful?" cried Patsy, clapping her hands gleefully.

It ran past Sheila now with a loud clapping and knocking at its cobbled bed and with an over-current of noisy murmurs.

He was blessed by a dream: shallow water clapping over a cobbled bed, the sharp rustle of wind-edged aspen leaves, and two stars, tender and misty, that bent close and smiled.

To prevent this evil, and to act in obedience to these laws, the various actions of clapping the hands, folding the arms, twisting the fists, and various other motions have been introduced.

" "Scoutbush as an angel!" shrieked Lucia, clapping her hands.

Good!" cried the boy, clapping his hands.

We have to train them on the way to self-government, instead of clapping them into prison if they mention the subject.

Changes of figure are announced by a clapping of hands from one of the gentlemen, and a chorus of such applauses marks the end of the dance.

BURROWING BIRDS.At Point Aux Beignes (Pancake Point) one of the men caught a kingfisher by clapping his hand over an orifice in the bank.

she exclaimed, jumping up and clapping her hands, while her whole face was radiant with triumph.

" "That's true," exclaimed Squeers, clapping his hands.

The shouts, screams, groans, hoots, and clapping of hands, suddenly ceased, and a dead silence ensued.

And then, and then," added she, clapping her hands, "it is all over.

Elinor listened, seated in a rocking-chair, restlessly clapping her protended ankles together.

From the disproportionately small, convex, thin-quilled, wing,so thin, that a vacant space, half as broad as a quill appears between each,the flight may be said to be a sort of fluttering more than any thing else: the bird giving two or three claps of the wings in quick succession, at the same time hurriedly rising; then shooting or floating, swinging from side to side, gradually falling, and thus producing a clapping, whirring sound.

" "Whose every look and gesture was a joke To clapping theatres and shouting crowds.

But there were cheers when I'd done; it was nae just clapping of the hands they gie'd me.

my lady cried, clapping her hands in triumph.

'That is talking!' cried my lady, clapping her hands gleefully.

SUBKA [Clapping her hands.

NANKO [Clapping his hands and dancing.]

Of course several fish-bones flew down his throat, and while he was choking he did such fearful and wonderful things that the whole room, not dreaming the poor dear was at his dernier soupir, broke out clapping and shouting and then imitated him, and by the time Chippy felt better he found himself famous and everybody doing the Peace Leap, which has completely cut out the Jazz-stagger, the Wolf's Prowl and everything else.