Upon that the whole audience rose and, turning to the seats occupied by the visitors, showed their admiration by plaudits so long and so vehement that Lady Cochrane, overpowered by her feelings, burst into tears.
Musical reunions in the gardens of the Pitti Palace were of constant recurrence, where he and his children danced and sang to their hearts' content, amid the plaudits of the company.
Loud plaudits greeted the noble matron and her sons--not the battle-cry "Palle!
Unhappily, the plaudits of these glancing nights were too bitterly repaid by sufferings in the intervening seasons.
From the Ironsides a storm of plauditscrossed a sudden thunder-clap.
His victory at Aboukir had adorned his brows with fresh laurels, and all France hailed the returning conqueror with plaudits of exulting pride.
This departure had the appearance of a triumphal procession; and this banished king, without a country, was greeted with as lively plaudits on leaving his place of exile as when he mounted his throne[20].
He can not be exempted from the criticism that he regarded success and the immediate plaudits of the public as the only satisfactory rewards of his art.
La Scala rang with plaudits when the opera was produced, and Bellini's career was assured.
The plaudits of the spectators were changed to groans of rage when they saw the carcasses of their favourite lions, who had already swallowed so many thousand slaves, strewing the wide arena.
With terrific roars the hundred lions rushed in at once, amidst the loud plaudits of the spectators.
When the lady had finished her song the plaudits of her enraptured hearers rang through the house, and the woods outside.
The plaudits of the dancers, who once more had stopped, were loud.
The ready plaudits of a fawning world Ring sweet in victor's ears; The vanquished's banners never are unfurled-- For them there sound no cheers.
TO THOSE WHO FAIL We too often praise the man who wins just because he wins; the plaudits and laurels of victory are the unthinking crowd's means of estimating success.
Sons and grandsons of slaves, welcomed by the plaudits of the second largest city in the world.
Amid the farewells and plauditsof all, the chariot soars aloft.
Other favour or distinction is as fabled Echo, or the plaudits of the Play, ceasing the moment it has begun.
But that tender eye was closed-that ear was shut, to whom he would have wished these plaudits to have given rapture-and they were now as nothing to him.
The work done, He mounts the chariot of His love, and multitudes mount with Him, and He drives on and up the steep of heaven amid the plaudits of gazing worlds!
It seems that the emotion by which I was then agitated, caused me to give an expression more effective, though more simple, and it was so felt by the audience, that I was overwhelmed with plaudits from all parts of the house.
Despising such petty spite, Paganini entrusted his revenge to his art, and the rapturous plaudits of the audience proper soon reduced to a pitiable silence those who had offered so gross an insult.
The world gave Paganini its plaudits and its money; but there never seemed to be any bond of sympathy between the artist and the public.
Our poor young Prince gets his Opera plaudits changed into mocking tehees; and cannot become Grand-Admiral,--the source to him of woes which one may call endless.
Thus the firmness of the President again saved the country from an immense calamity, and in a few months covered him with the plaudits of a preserved and grateful country.
The pianist approached the instrument to the plaudits of the crowded house.
He had been capturing loud plaudits with his rag-time, until intoxicated with success, he swept into a tornado of music by Moskowski.
In 1690 he led an army against Port Royal in Acadia, took it, and came back to receive the plauditsof the Bostonians.
Polly obediently turned and seated herself amid the plauditsof her audience.
Your mother fears, dear Prue, your tendency to be attracted by glitter and by the noise of plaudits which are not the echo of truth.
The prisoner's voice echoed as clear as if he were in some great playhouse, and were singing to gain the plaudits of a friendly throng.
A nomadic life insured impunity to thieves; the more easily since they proclaimed themselves admirers of Cæsar, and were unsparing of plauditswherever he appeared.
Nero, to whom plaudits were dearer than all else in the world, never resisted.
Though the spectators had not spared plaudits at the end of the song, Nero was not satisfied; he had looked for enthusiasm touching on frenzy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaudits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
