Upon Hermione's going off with a Menace to Pyrrhus, the Audience gave a loud Clap; to which Sir ROGER added, On my Word, a notable young Baggage!

The Author dreads the strut and meen Of new prais'd Poets, having often seen Some of his Fellows, who have writ before, When Nel has danc'd her Jig, steal to the Door, Hear the Pit clap, and with conceit of that Swell, and believe themselves the Lord knows what.

No gainful trade their industry can 'scape, [q]They sing, they dance, clean shoes, or cure a clap: All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows, And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

A hundred hisses (Damn the word, I write it like kisses,how different!)a hundred hisses outweigh a thousand claps.

'I may be a fool for believing you, but if you're sorry for the past, I won't be the one to rake it up.' Teddy's upward look was so full of innocence that he received a clap on the shoulder.

Nothing that Sancho said could dissuade him, and he must needs clap spurs to his horse and ride a-tilt at these great windmills, recommending himself to his lady Dulcinea.

Suddenly, above the howling of the wind sounded sharply the clap of the old knocker on the door.

After walking across the room once or twice, with a smothered yawn he took up the fly-clap from behind the doora most unusual proceedingand remarking, 'Where do all these flies come from?' began to slap about, as loudly as possible.

The fourth night the fire in the furnace riz up onbeknown to us in the night, and the first we knew we wuz waked up by what we thought a loud clap of thunder overhead, accompanied by a loud roar, and shakin' of the walls, and Josiah started up in bed and sez, "Is the house struck, Samantha?

THE PLAY-HOUSE. Where gentle Thames through stately channels glides, And England's proud metropolis divides; A lofty fabric does the sight invade, And stretches o'er the waves a pompous shade; Whence sudden shouts the neighbourhood surprise, And thundering claps and dreadful hissings rise.

Soon after there arrived a thunder-clap indeed:certain intelligence that the once victorious Charles was totally overthrown, his whole army either cut to pieces or taken prisoners, and himself a fugitive in the grand seignior's dominions.

but it was gran', it just put me in min' o' our geese at Dunjarg when they turn their nebs to the south an' clap their wings when they see the rain's comin' after lang drooth.

I humbly ask your pardon: I'le clap up Prayers, but stay a little, and be with you again.

The kingly bird that beares Ioves thunder-clap One day did scorne the simple Scarabee*, Proud of his highest service and good hap, That made all other foules his thralls to bee.

He will let you know he is going to a whore, or that he has got a clap, with as much indifferency, as he would a piece of public news.

MARMADUKE One thing you noticed not: Just as we left the glen a clap of thunder Burst on the mountains with hell-rousing force.