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  • And here, all the way from Egypt, our referee, acclaimed Chairwizard of the International Association of Quidditch, Hassan Mostafa!†   (source)
  • Such was the acclamation we gave her in those last weeks of the year.†   (source)
  • The Victorian district has been acclaimed as a national model for how to restore inner cities without uprooting the poor.†   (source)
  • The next day was the deadline for Acclaim Comic Books' "Create a Superhero" contest.†   (source)
  • Neither of them had ever sampled the acclaimed sweets of the market bakery.†   (source)
  • Jack Torrance, acclaimed playwright and winner of the New York Critics Circle Award.†   (source)
  • On and on he went, telling me how Central High's students were suffering and sacrificing the reputation of their nationally acclaimed school because we had come there.†   (source)
  • In the absence of public credit or acclaim, the small and secretive fraternity of flavor chemists praises one another's work.†   (source)
  • I would be cured of my condition, he would be acclaimed for a wonderful medical breakthrough.†   (source)
  • My good friend Scott Sherman, whom I met freshman year, now recalls me as "having a total lack of tact, and being universally acclaimed as the person quickest to offend someone he had just met."†   (source)
  • He progressed so quickly, the teacher advised him to take private lessons from a student of the acclaimed Homer Mensch, who was living in Flushing, New York, at the time.†   (source)
  • I've even prepared in case my Ozarks friends Jeff and Greta show up, nosing around for acclaim or cash.†   (source)
  • "We'll just he paying for our drinks and going " It wasn't long after our excellent excursion into the Boca alfresco-dining scene that I found a book in the library titled No Bad Dogs by the acclaimed British dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse.†   (source)
  • Plotinus came close to acclaiming Plato as the savior of humanity.†   (source)
  • But most of all, he thought of Garrow and wished his uncle were still alive to see his only son acclaimed a hero by the villagers and the Varden alike and to see him take Katrina's hand and finally become a man in full.†   (source)
  • After the meal the job was mine by general acclaim.†   (source)
  • It was a great honor for Fort Hare to play host to a man acclaimed as a world statesman.†   (source)
  • -and do you think, for all your acclaimed psychopathic powers, that you could effectively use your weapon against our champion?†   (source)
  • In the late 1990s, however, Cook County Hospital started a project that may one day earn the hospital as much acclaim as any of those earlier accomplishments.†   (source)
  • Teaching computer science to impoverished students in West Phoenix wasn't going to make him rich—far from it—nor would it bring him much acclaim.†   (source)
  • When everyone acclaimed Rene as a hero—his mother, the President, Time magazine, and audiences across the country—he believed them.†   (source)
  • The little girl also took part in the Friday sessions, during which the three-legged table jumped in broad daylight without the aid of any special tricks, known form of energy, or outside leverage, as well as the literary soirees where she mingled with the acclaimed masters and a varying group of timid unknown artists whom Clara encouraged.†   (source)
  • Everywhere they touched he was acclaimed with honor, and it was one triumphal ovation after another for him in city after city until they finally doubled back through the Middle East and reached Cairo, where Milo cornered the market on cotton that no one else in the world wanted and brought himself promptly to the brink of ruin.†   (source)
  • He became a professor in Geneva (where there are no demonstrations), and in a burst of abnegation (in womanless, paradeless solitude) he published several scholarly books, all of which received considerable acclaim.†   (source)
  • There's this assumption among my family, Bryn, the rest of the band—well, at least there used to be among those guys—that I somehow deserve all this, that the acclaim and wealth is payback.†   (source)
  • The first volume of This I Believe achieved critical acclaim and was a national bestseller, unusual for a collection of essays.†   (source)
  • I knew, from reading about it, that it was about as Southern as a snowmobile, a pretentious city striving for some kind of ridiculous national or international acclaim, or—as one native son once said—just a lot of really nice conventions.†   (source)
  • None of the alterations, however, diminished his overall pride in what he and the convention had achieved, and the acclaim it brought.†   (source)
  • Victorious fighters are pampered and acclaimed, and the slain are honored and remembered.†   (source)
  • At one point in the distant past, it had been a Plymouth Acclaim, but there wasn't much left to shout about.†   (source)
  • You're one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers of the decade.†   (source)
  • Winnie Holzman is a writer and director acclaimed for her empathy with teenagers in her cult TV series, My So-Called Life.†   (source)
  • In his dress whites, he seemed a splendid figure of a man, one who could be elected emperor by acclamation in a crowd of boys.†   (source)
  • There's no acclamation here.†   (source)
  • I looked across the street at the National Storytelling Center, which was built a few years ago and brings Jonesborough a limited amount of national acclaim.†   (source)
  • Jack Cardinal's talents as a writer had brought him much critical acclaim, and very little money.†   (source)
  • One man will write it—a dead man—and late at night when they are very tired, they'll pass it by acclamation.†   (source)
  • A short novel then, also acclaimed, having to do with my wartime experiences—a taut, searing book eviscerating the military in a tragicomedy of the absurd.†   (source)
  • Father, I stand in need of your widely acclaimed professional assistance.†   (source)
  • He had been acclaimed as the first President of the Independent Republic of Texas, a Member of her Congress, and President again before the admission of Texas into the Union as a state.†   (source)
  • The Two ADMIRERS also shout their 114 acclaim, jump about, without being able to see anything of what is presumed to be happening in the wings.†   (source)
  • The fourth and fifth were too small and the sixth brought acclaim from everyone, induding Mother, who joined in the Gees, Goshes, and Look-at-thats!†   (source)
  • But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand where I am standing.†   (source)
  • It is called 'Acclamation by Adoration.'†   (source)
  • Jay had even called the Acclaim offices from his grandma's house in Birmingham.†   (source)
  • It was the office of a witch doctor as much as an acclaimed royal scientist.†   (source)
  • I want Lady Lysa and her son to acclaim Joffrey as king, to swear fealty, and to—†   (source)
  • Buckley is also the author of the acclaimed series of Blackford Oakes spy novels.†   (source)
  • Let's see if there's any valiant acclamation to this.†   (source)
  • He is also the director of critically acclaimed television programs and commercials.†   (source)
  • Though he had wealth and fame and critical acclaim, Lee believed him.†   (source)
  • It's hard to accept that you deserve the acclaim, but you do.†   (source)
  • [Cries of acclaim and applause are heard from the wings.†   (source)
  • [The acclaim redoubles its intensity; the Two ADMIRERS and the Two LOVERS shout:] ALL: Hurrah!†   (source)
  • [Noise of acclaim and 'Hurrahs' from the wings.†   (source)
  • He rides into Jerusalem and allows himself to be acclaimed by the crowds as the savior of the people, thus playing directly on the way the old kings were installed in a characteristic "throne accession ritual."†   (source)
  • It must have been a decade since the Count had first promised himself to read this work of universal acclaim that his father had held so dear.†   (source)
  • Then father and daughter embraced, and Sofia, despite being uncertain of acclaim, passed through the endlessly spinning doors of the Metropol Hotel.†   (source)
  • They had planned to walk to the post office after school tomorrow and send their package to Acclaim's offices in New York City.†   (source)
  • And at that minute, Barry let himself believe that he and Jay just might win first place —$250 to split and the comic book, starring Akivo, that Acclaim would create.†   (source)
  • For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.†   (source)
  • Were one to ask Larousse to define the word cabinet, the acclaimed lexicographer might reply: A piece of furniture often adorned with decorative detail in which items may be stowed away from sight.†   (source)
  • I grabbed my stuff, staggered out the front door, down the street and into the Acclaim, which smelled more like burning oil than ever.†   (source)
  • He seemed very modest, and few could have guessed that one day they would see him wrapped in an emperor's cape with his arms raised to hush the crowds that had been trucked in to acclaim him, his august mustache trembling with vanity as he inaugurated the monument to the Four Swords, from whose heights an eternal torch would illuminate the nation's destiny—except that, owing to an error by the foreign technicians, no flame would ever rise there, only a thick cloud of kitchen smoke that…†   (source)
  • Never had he known such attention and acclaim, which some thought surpassed even what Washington had known while in office.†   (source)
  • As a boy I loved to ride, and as a young man I handled a mount well enough to win some small acclaim in the lists, but those days are done.†   (source)
  • If he shows up to a battle without it, his fellow warriors will ask where it is, and they will wonder if he is ashamed of his success and if he is insulting them by rejecting the acclaim they have bestowed upon him, and even his enemies may insist upon waiting to fight until he fetches his famed blade.†   (source)
  • It took some arguing, but he finally walked to the garage, leaned the maul against the chopping block, crossed his arms over his chest, and watched as I climbed out of the Acclaim.†   (source)
  • NIVEN BUSCH was an American novelist and screenwriter of such works as the acclaimed film The Postman Always Rings Twice.†   (source)
  • "It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory" She goes quiet, as if she's thinking this over.†   (source)
  • Rush wrote to Jefferson to assure him that posterity would acclaim the reconciliation and that Jefferson was certain to find Adams a refreshing correspondent.†   (source)
  • While I'm not sure taking off your shoes in a strange hotel room and swallowing too many sleeping pills is what I would call dying valiantly and with acclamation, it's the thought that counts.†   (source)
  • The great English tragedienne Sarah Siddons, who had come out of retirement the year before, appeared in Macbeth for the first time and was acclaimed a triumph.†   (source)
  • It had been praised in poetry by Pope, acclaimed by Rousseau, and was the work, in part, of the most famous English landscape gardener of the day, Lancelot Brown, "Capability" Brown, as he was known, for his habit of extolling to clients the "capabilities" of their property.†   (source)
  • On March 23,1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: "Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory."†   (source)
  • He enjoyed most of all his visits to Mount Vernon to call on Martha Washington, and to Alexandria, where he was acclaimed by the townspeople and given a dinner in his honor at the home of Attorney General Lee, the net effect of which was to make him extremely homesick.†   (source)
  • I feel the rush and then some—I feel everything around me and in me, the road and my blood and my heart beating up into my throat, and I could end right now, in a valiant acclamation of crushed metal and explosive fire.†   (source)
  • There was also Franklin's particular friend and near neighbor at Passy, the flamboyant, once-beautiful Madame Helvetius, widow of the acclaimed philosophe Claude-Adrien Helvetius, who lived amid a menagerie of chickens, ducks, birds in aviaries, dogs, cats, and pet deer.†   (source)
  • Anything connected with violence, fighting, or the improvement of their skills as potential street fighters was always acclaimed by the boys.†   (source)
  • Passed by acclamation.†   (source)
  • But Senator Norris, who was asked to appear before many groups to explain what he felt to be the true issues, met acclaim throughout the state; and the Governor having announced that he would not ask the Legislature to authorize a special recall election, the Senator returned to Washington better able to withstand the abuse which had not yet fully ceased.†   (source)
  • The domestic tragedy which I had struggled so to bring to parturition at Yetta Zimmerman's had long before been published (to a general acclaim far beyond my youthful hopes); I had written other works of fiction and a certain vaguely unenthusiastic and uncommitted amount of trendy sixties' journalism.†   (source)
  • ['Bravos', and acclaim from the wings.†   (source)
  • [The ANNOUNCER goes out up-stage, running; the Two ADMIRERS leave right and left, whilst in the wings the acclaim mounts, then fades.†   (source)
  • [Applause and enormous acclaim.†   (source)
  • During the whole of this, the acclaim is heard louder or fainter according to the rhythm of the stage action; the stage is empty for a moment, then the LOVERS appear from right and left, crying:] YOUNG LOVER: I'll get you!†   (source)
  • '] [They enter and leave, employing all the exits; finally, entering from left, from right, and from up-stage they all meet centre, whilst the acclaim and the applause from the wings becomes a fearful din.†   (source)
  • [The Two ADMIRERS flatten themselves as before against the wall, stretching their necks out towards the wings from where the shouts of acclamation come; the ANNOUNCER watches fixedly upstage his back to the public.†   (source)
  • His ear was cut by popular acclamation and given to Pedro Romero, who, in turn, gave it to Brett, who wrapped it in a handkerchief belonging to myself, and left both ear and handkerchief, along with a number of Muratti cigarette-stubs, shoved far back in the drawer of the bed-table that stood beside her bed in the Hotel Montoya, in Pamplona.†   (source)
  • From the dark harbor soared the first rocket of the firework display organized by the municipality, and the town acclaimed it with a long-drawn sigh of delight.†   (source)
  • The punishment consisted in being thrown into the water three times from the mainmast tree, and his comrades used to acclaim each belly-flopper with a cheer.†   (source)
  • I had a fine haul—eleven paintings and fifty odd drawings and when eventually I exhibited them in London, the art critics, many of whom hitherto had been patronizing in tone, as my success invited, acclaimed a new and richer note in my work.†   (source)
  • Instead of the Creator adored by its creature, you soon have merely a leader acclaimed by a partisan, and finally a distinguished character approved by a judicious historian.†   (source)
  • They all stand up and greet him with affectionate acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" etc. Even Hugo comes out of his coma to raise his head and blink through his thick spectacles with a welcoming giggle.†   (source)
  • The snakes and birds and the divinities of the woods and fields did him homage with flowers and celestial perfumes, heavenly choirs poured forth music, the ten thousand worlds were filled with perfumes, garlands, harmonies, and shouts of acclaim; for he was on his way to the great Tree of Enlightenment, the Bo Tree, under which he was to redeem the universe.†   (source)
  • At last, at daybreak on a fine February morning, the ceremonial opening of the gates took place, acclaimed by the populace, the newspapers, the radio, and official communiques.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the gods of the redeemed heavensraised their voices in harmonious acclaim of the man-hero who had penetrated beyond them to the void that was their life and source: Flags and banners erected on the eastern rim of the world let their streamers fly to the western rim of the world; likewise those erected on the western rim of the world, to the eastern rim of the world; those erected on the northern rim of the world, to the southern rim of the world; and those erected on the…†   (source)
  • In the beginning he had welcomed with acclamations the additions.†   (source)
  • That was received with hoarse acclaims by all except Gulden.†   (source)
  • Here are my pipes, and here are you two gentlemen who are baith acclaimed pipers.†   (source)
  • His proposal was received with acclamations, and executed with the swiftness of thought.†   (source)
  • It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation.†   (source)
  • At midnight great cries and loud acclamations were heard.†   (source)
  • Every caress was received with loud acclamations of laughter by the sympathizing audience.†   (source)
  • History records nothing more touching than that agony bursting forth in acclamations.†   (source)
  • The throng of vagabonds, uttering loud acclamations, crowded to its foot to ascend.†   (source)
  • The regiment indeed adopted her with acclamation.†   (source)
  • This same representation which had been begun amid so unanimous an acclamation!†   (source)
  • The acclamation was unanimous; people rushed towards the chapel.†   (source)
  • The master's wife called him the "Blessed Wolf," which name was taken up with acclaim and all the women called him the Blessed Wolf.†   (source)
  • It was a brilliant spectacle, and was hailed with acclamations all along the line, as it took its stately way through the packed multitudes of citizens.†   (source)
  • Acclamations.†   (source)
  • The acclamation which followed was taken up beyond the door of the supper-room by many of the other guests and renewed time after time, Freddy Malins acting as officer with his fork on high.†   (source)
  • Human as it was from this point of view, it belonged, none the less, to an order of supernatural creatures whom we have never seen, but whom, in spite of that, we recognise and acclaim with rapture when some explorer of the unseen contrives to coax one forth, to bring it down from that divine world to which he has access to shine for a brief moment in the firmament of ours.†   (source)
  • Sally Hudnall and Mrs. Burn Hudnall welcomed Tom in no less joyful manner; and the letters he delivered were received with acclamations of delight.†   (source)
  • He was received with acclaim in the private office of Hunziker, which was remarkably like a minor cathedral.†   (source)
  • He loved poetry—science was merely an acquisition, which he laid aside when unobserved like his European dress—and this evening he longed to compose a new song which should be acclaimed by multitudes and even sung in the fields.†   (source)
  • The idea was received with acclamation.†   (source)
  • After many tumbles four chubby youngsters mounted the burro; and the others, with loud acclaim, shouting, "Noddle, Noddle, getup! getup!" endeavored to make him go.†   (source)
  • It breeds as quickly as the yeoman, and as soundly; strong is the temptation to acclaim it as a super-yeoman, who carries his country's virtue overseas.†   (source)
  • Acclaim by scientific societies, any professorship you might happen to want, prizes, the biggest men begging to consult you, a ripping place in society!†   (source)
  • (Acclamations): Oh, oh!†   (source)
  • This quaint and gaudy spectacle so wrought upon the rejoicing people, that their acclamations utterly smothered the small voice of the child whose business it was to explain the thing in eulogistic rhymes.†   (source)
  • His masterpieces Sondelius acclaimed, he alone placid among the scary patrons who came in now not to dream but to gulp and flee.†   (source)
  • The noddings of his plumed head as he saluted his subjects were full of grace and graciousness; the largess which he delivered from his hand was royally liberal: so the people's anxiety vanished, and the acclamations burst forth again in as mighty a volume as before.†   (source)
  • Acclamations.†   (source)
  • When the meal was over at last and he marched away in the midst of his bright pageant, with the happy noises in his ears of blaring bugles, rolling drums, and thundering acclamations, he felt that if he had seen the worst of dining in public it was an ordeal which he would be glad to endure several times a day if by that means he could but buy himself free from some of the more formidable requirements of his royal office.†   (source)
  • Why this "sign from heaven," which they so triumphantly acclaimed in company with Father Ferapont, and why did they believe they had gained the right to acclaim it?†   (source)
  • Loud acclamations hailed this rebuke.†   (source)
  • When the noise had moderated a little, the chair proposed that "our illustrious guests be at once elected, by complimentary acclamation, to membership in our ever-glorious organization, the paradise of the free and the perdition of the slave."†   (source)
  • Ah, what a high and noble appreciation of Gentlewomanhood there must have been in Vanity Fair, when that revered and august being was invested, by the universal acclaim of the refined and educated portion of this empire, with the title of Premier Gentilhomme of his Kingdom.†   (source)
  • To which the more humble spectators added their acclamations, and a numerous band of trumpeters the flourish of their martial instruments.†   (source)
  • Not only did his contemporaries, carried away by their passions, talk in this way, but posterity and history have acclaimed Napoleon as grand, while Kutuzov is described by foreigners as a crafty, dissolute, weak old courtier, and by Russians as something indefinite—a sort of puppet useful only because he had a Russian name.†   (source)
  • So, the petition in favour of the bill was agreed upon, and the meeting adjourned with acclamations, and Mr Nickleby and the other directors went to the office to lunch, as they did every day at half-past one o'clock; and to remunerate themselves for which trouble, (as the company was yet in its infancy,) they only charged three guineas each man for every such attendance.†   (source)
  • His health being drunk with acclamations, he was not so baronial after all but that in trying to return thanks he broke down, in the manner of a mere serf with a heart in his breast, and wept before them all.†   (source)
  • Can I not, like Pasta, Malibran, Grisi, acquire for myself what you would never have given me, whatever might have been your fortune, a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand livres per annum, for which I shall be indebted to no one but myself; and which, instead of being given as you gave me those poor twelve thousand francs, with sour looks and reproaches for my prodigality, will be accompanied with acclamations, with bravos, and with flowers?†   (source)
  • I have looked, a little shrinking creature, at that door, until the owners of all the names — there were five-and-forty of them in the school then, Mr. Mell said — seemed to send me to Coventry by general acclamation, and to cry out, each in his own way, 'Take care of him.†   (source)
  • This speech was made by Winthrop; he was accused of having committed arbitrary actions during his magistracy, but after having made the speech of which the above is a fragment, he was acquitted by acclamation, and from that time forwards he was always re-elected governor of the State.†   (source)
  • Both hail Mr. George with acclamations as an old friend and after some kissing and romping plant their stools beside him.†   (source)
  • These perfected diving suits, it was easy to see, were a far cry from such misshapen costumes as the cork breastplates, leather jumpers, seagoing tunics, barrel helmets, etc., invented and acclaimed in the 18th century.†   (source)
  • Pilloried on the very place where, on the day before, he had been saluted, acclaimed, and proclaimed Pope and Prince of Fools, in the cortege of the Duke of Egypt, the King of Thunes, and the Emperor of Galilee!†   (source)
  • The general comes to us, Suvorov-like, in a kibitka, and is received with acclamations of joy and triumph.†   (source)
  • Half an hour after the entrance of the king, fresh acclamations were heard; these announced the arrival of the queen.†   (source)
  • The men shouted; the ladies wept into their pocket-handkerchiefs till they were moist, and waved them till they were dry; the excitement was tremendous; and Mr Nickleby whispered his friend that the shares were thenceforth at a premium of five-and-twenty per cent. The resolution was, of course, carried with loud acclamations, every man holding up both hands in favour of it, as he would in his enthusiasm have held up both legs also, if he could have conveniently accomplished it.†   (source)
  • A jubilee of acclamations followed; and even Prince John, in admiration of Locksley's skill, lost for an instant his dislike to his person.†   (source)
  • Why this "sign from heaven," which they so triumphantly acclaimed in company with Father Ferapont, and why did they believe they had gained the right to acclaim it?†   (source)
  • The Abraham Lincoln replied by three times lowering and hoisting the American flag, whose thirty–nine stars gleamed from the gaff of the mizzen sail; then, changing speed to take the buoy–marked channel that curved into the inner bay formed by the spit of Sandy Hook, it hugged this sand–covered strip of land where thousands of spectators acclaimed us one more time.†   (source)
  • Frantic acclamations were again raised.†   (source)
  • He mounted it and rode at a gallop to one of the bridges over the Niemen, deafened continually by incessant and rapturous acclamations which he evidently endured only because it was impossible to forbid the soldiers to express their love of him by such shouting, but the shouting which accompanied him everywhere disturbed him and distracted him from the military cares that had occupied him from the time he joined the army.†   (source)
  • The acclamations of thousands applauded the unanimous award of the Prince and marshals, announcing that day's honours to the Disinherited Knight.†   (source)
  • That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Aeschylus, Dante, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may consist.†   (source)
  • Practical suggestions being much needed, this suggestion, too, was received with acclamation, and the coach was immediately filled with eight inside and a dozen out, while as many people got on the roof of the hearse as could by any exercise of ingenuity stick upon it.†   (source)
  • …the white revers concealing the star of the Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, the sword of Marengo,—that whole figure of the last of the Caesars is present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely regarded by others.†   (source)
  • The hall rung with acclamations, and cup and horn was filled to the Norwegian, who should be speedily in possession of his English territory.†   (source)
  • Hence, deaf though he was, he enjoyed, like a veritable pope, the acclamations of that throng, which he hated because he felt that he was hated by it.†   (source)
  • The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour of the trumpets, announced the triumph of the victors and the defeat of the vanquished.†   (source)
  • In 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of the Bishop of D——, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the august and touching features presented by the embrace of a…†   (source)
  • To-morrow, the Lady Rowena will take upon her the state to which she has been called by the free election of the victor Knight, confirmed by the acclamations of the people.†   (source)
  • The hand clapping was deafening, and Jupiter had already withdrawn under his tapestry, while the hall still trembled with acclamations.†   (source)
  • The populace, fond of all prowess, sought him with their eyes, beneath the gloomy nave, regretting that he had so speedily disappeared from their acclamations.†   (source)
  • The same acclamations were bestowed upon Prince John, although he was indebted for them rather to the splendour of his appearance and train, than to the popularity of his character.†   (source)
  • A loud shout from the spectators, waving of scarfs and handkerchiefs, and general acclamations, attested the interest taken by the spectators in this encounter; the most equal, as well as the best performed, which had graced the day.†   (source)
  • Gringoire was forced to content himself with this eulogy; for a thunder of applause, mingled with a prodigious acclamation, cut their conversation short.†   (source)
  • To extricate himself from the stirrups and fallen steed, was to the Templar scarce the work of a moment; and, stung with madness, both at his disgrace and at the acclamations with which it was hailed by the spectators, he drew his sword and waved it in defiance of his conqueror.†   (source)
  • A grand acclamation followed.†   (source)
  • Noel!" shouted the populace in its turn; and that immense acclamation flew to astonish the crowd assembled at the Grève on the other bank, and the recluse who was still waiting with her eyes riveted on the gibbet.†   (source)
  • It showed itself in loud acclamations upon every change of fortune, while all eyes were so riveted on the lists, that the spectators seemed as if they themselves had dealt and received the blows which were there so freely bestowed.†   (source)
  • But this is the way we manage it; we collect a crowd like this one here, then each person in turn passes his head through a hole, and makes a grimace at the rest; time one who makes the ugliest, is elected pope by general acclamation; that's the way it is.†   (source)
  • The appearance of vanity, which might otherwise have been attributed to this display, was removed by the propriety shown in exhibiting to the best advantage the princely reward with which he had been just honoured, and the Knight was again greeted by the acclamations of all present.†   (source)
  • The victim finally arrived, bound to the tail of a cart, and when he had been hoisted upon the platform, where he could be seen from all points of the Place, bound with cords and straps upon the wheel of the pillory, a prodigious hoot, mingled with laughter and acclamations, burst forth upon the Place.†   (source)
  • A more sincere and more general, as well as a better-merited acclamation, attended the victor of the day, until, anxious to withdraw himself from popular notice, he accepted the accommodation of one of those pavilions pitched at the extremities of the lists, the use of which was courteously tendered him by the marshals of the field.†   (source)
  • Even so the son of Telamon, magnificent Aias, whirled about and broke the clump of Trojans that had ringed Patroklos thinking now surely to drag away the body to their own town, and win acclaim for it.†   (source)
  • All desire to see you bring forth the work you meditate, to acclaim you Stephaneforos.†   (source)
  • This was scant said but all cried with one acclaim nay, by our Virgin Mother, the wife should live and the babe to die.†   (source)
  • To promote a war veteran from sergeant to colonel by acclamation, as is often done in the United States, is unknown over there.†   (source)
  • The Lady Gwendolen Dubedat bursts through the throng, leaps on his horse and kisses him on both cheeks amid great acclamation.†   (source)
  • The arrival of the worldrenowned headsman was greeted by a roar of acclamation from the huge concourse, the viceregal ladies waving their handkerchiefs in their excitement while the even more excitable foreign delegates cheered vociferously in a medley of cries, hoch, banzai, eljen, zivio, chinchin, polla kronia, hiphip, vive, Allah, amid which the ringing evviva of the delegate of the land of song (a high double F recalling those piercingly lovely notes with which the eunuch Catalani…†   (source)
  • It came to pass, however, that as Don Quixote was proceeding amid the acclamations that have been described, a Castilian, reading the inscription on his back, cried out in a loud voice, "The devil take thee for a Don Quixote of La Mancha!†   (source)
  • Back from pursuit thy Powers with loud acclaim Thee only extolled, Son of thy Father's might, To execute fierce vengeance on his foes, Not so on Man: Him through their malice fallen, Father of mercy and grace, thou didst not doom So strictly, but much more to pity incline: No sooner did thy dear and only Son Perceive thee purposed not to doom frail Man So strictly, but much more to pity inclined, He to appease thy wrath, and end the strife Of mercy and justice in thy face discerned,…†   (source)
  • The skies were bright With rosy luster of the rising light: The bord'ring people, rous'd by sounding fame Of Trojan feasts and great Acestes' name, The crowded shore with acclamations fill, Part to behold, and part to prove their skill.†   (source)
  • Unheard and unperceived, eight of us fired among them, and did dreadful execution; and in half a minute after, eight more of us let fly, killing and wounding abundance of them; and then dividing ourselves into three bodies, eight persons in each body we marched from among the trees, to the very teeth of the enemy, sending forth the greatest shouts and acclamations.†   (source)
  • Don Quixote and Sancho mounted once more, and with the same music and acclamations reached their conductor's house, which was large and stately, that of a rich gentleman, in short; and there for the present we will leave them, for such is Cide Hamete's pleasure.†   (source)
  • …a cloud, his fulgent head And shape star-bright appeared, or brighter; clad With what permissive glory since his fall Was left him, or false glitter: All amazed At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng Bent their aspect, and whom they wished beheld, Their mighty Chief returned: loud was the acclaim: Forth rushed in haste the great consulting peers, Raised from their dark Divan, and with like joy Congratulant approached him; who with hand Silence, and with these words attention, won.†   (source)
  • …her vanished Night, Shot through with orient beams; when all the plain Covered with thick embattled squadrons bright, Chariots, and flaming arms, and fiery steeds, Reflecting blaze on blaze, first met his view: War he perceived, war in procinct; and found Already known what he for news had thought To have reported: Gladly then he mixed Among those friendly Powers, who him received With joy and acclamations loud, that one, That of so many myriads fallen, yet one Returned not lost.†   (source)
  • Up he rode Followed with acclamation, and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelick harmonies: The earth, the air Resounded, (thou rememberest, for thou heardst,) The heavens and all the constellations rung, The planets in their station listening stood, While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.†   (source)
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