The news came upon me like a clap of thunder.

Those rites were accompanied with many peculiar and fantastic gestures, by leaping, clapping of hands, prostrations, loud cries, and not unfrequently with unintelligible exclamations.

I thanked her, clapped on my dripping bonnet, and made for the dykes beyond the garden.

On his heels came another with his hand clapped to his side, and he moaned as he slithered past me.

Having nothing else convenient, Mr. P. clapped into the hole a lot of manuscripts which he had brought with him for consideration.

As Country Squire, who yet had never known The long-expected Joy of being in Town; Whose careful Parents scarce permitted Heir To ride from home, unless to neighbouring Fair; At last by happy Chance is hither led, To purchase Clap with loss of Maidenhead; Turns wondrous gay, bedizen'd to Excess; Till he is all Burlesque in Mode and Dress: Learns to talk loud in Pit, grows wily too, That is to say, makes mighty Noise and Show.

The fieldsmen clapped in quite an indulgent sort of way, as who should say, "Capital, capital.

He waking, roared with the pain so loud that all the cavern broke into claps like thunder.

" One hard, brown hand was clapped over Jig's mouth.

There was tumultuous cheering and clapping from a dense crowd.

Rosencrantz in the second act of Hamlet bears witness to the popularity of these boy actors, when he calls them "little eyases, that cry on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapped for it."

Oftener than not the Katz boy from the third floor front would come lickety-clapping down the stairs and past her, jumping the last four steps of each flight.

A woman with short blonde hair and a heart shaped face was clapping by the corner of the house.

'Sblood, ye shall take more than will do ye good, or I'll make ye clap under the table.

Clappings on the shoulder from bigger boys who had been wont to joke about his name made him flush nervously; to be addressed as 'Humpy,' or 'Beetle,' or 'Buz,' even though in a new tone, seemed to gratify him as little as before.

" Dawson looks upon the offered knife an instant with distraction in his eyes, and the Don (not to carry this risky business too far), taking his hesitation for refusal, claps up the blade in his waist-cloth, where it lay mighty convenient to his hand.

Hands clapped after her; voices, men's voices, filled her ears with a clamour of praise as extravagant as her own dancing; the guests went trooping gaily after her.

(Hurricanes of applause; long continued hand-clapping in the whole house and on the tribune.)

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.

He toiled on, listening for the expected gunshothearing it, too, and the yawp of a wounded dog, in spite of a mitten clapped at each ear.

" Applying his ear again to the child's throat, he listened for a moment intently, and then picking the baby up from the table, gave it a couple of sharp claps between the shoulders.

Here and there ushers were clapping down the seats, sounds to my fancy not unlike the first corn within a popper.

Twice, thrice, flashes of pale blue lightning traverse the clouds in rapid succession: as often does the thunder roll in loud and prolonged claps through the firmament.

At once a mad desirethe first which I had hadto laugh, to roar with laughter, to send wild echoes of merriment clapping among the chalk gullies, and abroad on the morning air, seized upon me: but I kept it under, though I could not help smiling at this poor man, with his little delusion that a part of the earth was his.

Then each, dishorsed and drawing, lash'd at each So often and with such blows, that all the crowd Wonder'd, and now and then from distant walls There came a clapping as of phantom hands.