There was great applause when the speaker sat down.

The parade, with its smiles, applause, and balloons, was over in a half hour.

Dean joined the applause while Lydia Larkin looked embarrassed.

In 15 70 he sustained no fewer than three hundred and eighteen theses at a disputation in Mantua, with such applause that the duke made him court theologian.

In London the day itself was kept by a solemn service in Westminster Abbey, to which the queen went in state, surrounded by the most brilliant, royal, and princely escort that had ever accompanied a British sovereign, and cheered on her way by the applause of hundreds of thousands of her subjects.