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Acclamations or expressions of good wishes or prayers to or for the deceased frequently occur in the inscriptions.
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Acclamations were uttered when he appeared; fetes and bull-fights were given in his honour; the nobles and ladies pressed around him.
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In this Situation we Entered the City, and passing thro 'the Principal Streets of New York amidst the Acclamations of Thousands were set down at Mr. Francis's.
Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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For the subject of Acclamations in classical times, cf.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Acclamations of hatred, fury, or love are immediately approved and repeated.
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So that though it met not with those Acclamations which the former Book did, (the reason whereof you will presently smell out, when you read it) yet these three Testimonies (besides the pains that the devout Priest (as he calls himself) took to get it out of Spanish into Italian) were enough to give it
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Acclamations drowned his voice here, and the men sprang up, waving their glasses.
Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Acclamations are made in thy name, libations are poured out to thy KA, and sepulchral meals [are brought unto thee] by the spirits who are in thy following, and water is sprinkled ... on each side of the souls of the dead in this land.
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From Nottingham our Troops march'd to Oxford; through every Town we pass'd the People came out, in some sort of Order, with such rural and rusty Weapons as they had, to meet us, in Acclamations of Welcome and good Wishes.
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Acclamations resounded and gradually gained upon the whole multitude.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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