afterclap

The sound woke him some mornings when the planes flew right over and sometimes he stood outside his quarters before nightfall and watched the matched contrails of half a dozen aircraft in tight formation, the planes themselves long gone, but it was the drag and sonic shock, this is what awed and moved him, and then the afterclap rolling off the mountains, like they were blowing out a seam in the world.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The sound woke him some mornings when the planes flew right over and sometimes he stood outside his quarters before nightfall and watched the matched contrails of half a dozen aircraft in tight formation, the planes themselves long gone, but it was the drag and sonic shock, this is what awed and moved him, and then the afterclap rolling off the mountains, like they were blowing out a seam in the world.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The sound woke him some mornings when the planes flew right over and sometimes he stood outside his quarters before nightfall and watched the matched contrails of half a dozen aircraft in tight formation, the planes themselves long gone, but it was the drag and sonic shock, this is what awed and moved him, and then the afterclap rolling off the mountains, like they were blowing out a seam in the world.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The shock of her fall had begun to awaken the nervous terror which is the afterclap of such an adventure.

Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson

The glow of the afterclap of danger was on them, and in the warm excitement each forgot the paralyzing fear that had but now padlocked his lips.

Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

Then it was bitter - deucedly bitter - and there was no horrid apprehension of morphia or other deadly drug left in the mind as afterclap.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

Its afterclap of 1812 displayed little but empty bombast and greed.

An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay Being a Lecture Delivered at Ormstown, March 8th, 1889 1905

The War of 1812 has been called by an able historian "the afterclap of the Revolution."

An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay Being a Lecture Delivered at Ormstown, March 8th, 1889 1905

Now this was absurd; for what with the blare of the postillion's horn, the clatter of hoofs, the jolting and rumbling of wheels, the rattle of glass, our travellers had all the noise to themselves -- or all but the voice of the gale now rising again for an afterclap and snoring at the street corners.

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And then, upon these two convictions that there is, if I might so say, an afterclap, and that it is the time and the sphere in which the fairest hopes that

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868