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  • The citizen here acts by swearing a collective oath, and when Bourdon l'Oise reports that he was able to clear the Commune by brandishing both his sword (3.56) and his rhetoric, the response is a "general shout," followed by "Applauses" and "Shouts from without":

    Introduction 2007

  • (Applauses.) (Shouts from without – Down with the tyrant!) (3. 63-4)

    Introduction 2007

  • Applauses, that will be, by the way, punctuating any cheap patriotic moment or Chavez glorifying incident.

    11/06/2005 - 11/13/2005 2005

  • Applauses, that will be, by the way, punctuating any cheap patriotic moment or Chavez glorifying incident.

    Our daily “cadena” , plus bonus Venezuela versus Mexico 2005

  • Possibility of any other Reproof, since your least Approbation will always give me a Pleasure, infinitely superior to the loudest Applauses of a Theatre.

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • It will be a slight compensation to the modern Husband, that your Ladyship's censure will defend him from the Possibility of any other Reproof, since your least Approbation will always give me a Pleasure, infinitely superior to the loudest Applauses of a Theatre.

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

  • It cannot sure be a Principle of Liberty that would turn the Stage into a Court of Enquiry, that would let the partial Applauses of a vulgar Audience give Sentence upon the Conduct of Authority, and put Impeachments into the Mouth of a Harlequin?

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • Yet the sublime Sentiments of Liberty in that venerable Character rais'd in every sensible Hearer such conscious Admiration, such compell'd Assent to the Conduct of a Suffering Virtue, as even demanded two almost irreconcileable Parties to embrace and join in their equal Applauses of it.

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

  • Applauses were loud and long, and at the end of the opera she and the director were called for and received with enthusiasm.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • Applauses were loud and long, and at the end of the opera she and the director were called for and received with enthusiasm.

    Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

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