Hence, the applause that greeted him at the outset continued until he, with a friendly gesture, claimed silence on his own behalf.
The reader will not be surprised, then, at the calmness with which the doctor received the applause that welcomed him in the Royal Society.
The women who had been charmed with the easy gait and confident smile of Fleetwood, were all more or less painfully impressed by the sullen strength of the southern man, as he passed before them slowly, with his head down and his brows knit, deaf to the applause showered on him, reckless of the eyes that looked at him; speaking to nobody; concentrated in himself; biding his time.
The first burst of applause (led by the south) rang out, as the big man beat Fleetwood at his own tactics, and headed him at the critical moment when the race was nearly half run.
At its conclusion (while the music was performing a symphony as if ever so many birds were warbling) the whole house was unanimous for an encore: and
applause and bouquets without end were showered upon the Nightingale of the evening.
When Mrs Crummles (who was his unworthy mother), sneered, and called him 'presumptuous boy,' and he defied her, what a tumult of applause came on!
In short, the success both of new piece and new actor was complete, and when Miss Snevellicci was called for at the end of the play, Nicholas led her on, and divided the applause.
Father Brown, though he knew every detail done behind the scenes, and had even evoked applause by his transformation of a pillow into a pantomime baby, went round to the front and sat among the audience with all the solemn expectation of a child at his first matinee.
The clown at the piano played the constabulary chorus in the "Pirates of Penzance," but it was drowned in the deafening applause, for every gesture of the great comic actor was an admirable though restrained version of the carriage and manner of the police.
The people went mad for pride in him, and joy and delight, and you couldn't hear yourself think, for the roar and boom and crash of
applause."
There was great
applause when the speaker sat down.
At length the great and long-expected day -- May 15, 1673 -- arrived; and all Haarlem, swelled by her neighbours, was gathered in the beautiful tree-lined streets, determined on this occasion not to waste its
applause upon military heroes, or those who had won notable victories in the field of science, but to reserve their
applause for those who had overcome Nature, and had forced the inexhaustible mother to be delivered of what had theretofore been regarded as impossible, -- a completely black tulip.
Mind that, I say; everybody would not have cajoled this out of her, mind that." The wife then joined in the
applause of her husband's sagacity; and thus ended the short dialogue between them on this occasion.
It is throwing time away to be mistress of French, Italian, and German: music, singing, and drawing, &c., will gain a woman some
applause, but will not add one lover to her list--grace and manner, after all, are of the greatest importance.
Hence the
applause was by no means general when the herald-at-arms proclaimed, after a flourish of trumpets, the names and styles of the knights who were prepared, for the honor of their country and for the love of their ladies, to hold the field against all who might do them the favor to run a course with them.
