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So I did and stood amazed every week when these brilliant, grown-up poets laughed with me and groaned their sympathy and clapped and told me, "Hey, I really felt that too."
So if we look at the very first end of what is, at the very end of what is was the very first time that people actually clapped and roared really loud.
That's when they really clapped.
Before I had time to process what was happening, a hand was clapped around my mouth so that I could not breathe, and the young man behind me dragged me to the ground, beat my head repeatedly against the pavement until my face began to bleed, kicking me in the back and neck while he began to assault me, ripping off my clothes and telling me to "shut up," as I struggled to cry for help.
Neither did the Liberians, although there was a huge amount of relief in their laughter as they clapped us on the back, and went back up to their room and left us alone in the street, holding hands.
This has to be creepiest, most twisted holiday film that I've ever clapped eyes on, and that's saying something.
Black and White live in a clapped out Fiat 500.
His work puts him in contact with innumerable clapped out housewives whose 'botties' and 'beezers' are invariably popped out for the benefit of our (possibly clapped up) Cassanova.
I can't remember the last time the whole audience clapped at the end of a movie.
People even clapped after the film ended and such applause was well deserved.
Levin paused, and then after scrutinizing her pale, frightened features, suddenly clapped his hands to his head.
When I told them we would be lying in Mediterranean waters within two days, Conseil clapped his hands, but the Canadian shrugged his shoulders.
With that, Conseil clapped his hands over his eyes.
The priest did not need any persuading; he went out to go and say mass, came back, and then they ate and hobnobbed, giggling a little without knowing why, stimulated by that vague gaiety that comes upon us after times of sadness, and at the last glass the priest said to the druggist, as he clapped him on the shoulder—"We shall end by understanding one another."
In a word, he was quite redeeming his reputation, when one morning he was greatly surprised to find himself awakened by a pair of hands which were clapped over his eyes.
The hunchbacked girl clapped her hands in glee and the other girls crowded in behind K. to push him faster forward.
He clapped spurs to his horse, and away he went down the brae.
He had not seen them the night before, but now it was all I could do to keep my face as I watched him; for instead of our homely Scottish nod, he bent up his back like a louping trout, and slid his foot, and clapped his hand over his heart in the queerest way.
One of the first days after his return he came down to see us, and there for the first time he clapped eyes upon de Lapp.
I clapped my hands upon Jim's sleeve, for I could see that his blood was boiling at the sight of the man, and that he was ready for any madness.
That seeing nobody I the shop, I knocked with my foot very hard to make the people hear, and had also called aloud with my voice; 'tis true, there was loose plate in the shop, but that nobody could say I had touched any of it, or gone near it; that a fellow came running into the shop out of the street, and laid hands on me in a furious manner, in the very moments while I was calling for the people of the house; that if he had really had a mind to have done his neighbour any service, he should have stood at a distance, and silently watched to see whether I had touched anything or no, and then have clapped in upon me, and taken me in the fact.
We were for that night clapped under hatches, and kept so close that I thought I should have been suffocated for want of air; and the next morning the ship weighed, and fell down the river to a place they call Bugby's Hole, which was done, as they told us, by the agreement of the merchant, that all opportunity of escape should be taken from us.
Don Quixote when he saw Sancho's flight without wings asked the general if this was a usual ceremony with those who came on board the galleys for the first time; for, if so, as he had no intention of adopting them as a profession, he had no mind to perform such feats of agility, and if anyone offered to lay hold of him to whirl him about, he vowed to God he would kick his soul out; and as he said this he stood up and clapped his hand upon his sword.
A knock was heard at the door; the mother opened it, and the children crowded round her, and clapped their hands for joy, as their father entered.
I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand to my face, and became a piteous spectacle.
Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled.
For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head.
I knew my man, however, and I clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike.
Here Marianne, in an ecstasy of indignation, clapped her hands together, and cried, "Gracious God! can this be possible!"
He clapped his hands three times--the ordinary signal of lovers; but nobody replied to him, not even an echo.
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