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Napoleon flattait le peuple; Wellington le brusqne; l'un cherchait les applau-dissements, l'autre ne se soucie que du temoignage de sa conscience; quand elle approuve, c'est assez; toute autre louange l'obsede.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Afterward, she smiled broadly as a crowd of onlookers stood and applau ...
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Afterward, she smiled broadly as a crowd of onlookers stood and applau ...
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Moffat County Clerk and Recorder Elaine Sullivan applau - ded Beckett for "stepping up to the plate."
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However, unlike the Clap You activity, Higher Five is based on the proverbial High Five, which is the same as a normal applau (applause, singular) except that it is performed with the arms extended overhead ... hence, "High."
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Harare - PRESIDENT Mugabe has applau-ded China for unconditionally extending a US$950 million credit facility to help Zimbabwe's economic recovery programme and blasted the West for insisting on conditions even as they render bits and pieces of aid to their agencies under the guise of assisting the people of Zimbabwe.
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Napoleon flattait le peuple; Wellington le brusqne; l’un cherchait les applau-dissements, l’autre ne se soucie que du temoignage de sa conscience; quand elle approuve, c’est assez; toute autre louange l’obsede.
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