This was done by each soldier carrying a standard or other trophy, amid the thunders of artillery and the hurrahs of the people; such a spectacle never having been witnessed since the days of the Spanish Armada.
We left the quay at Wilmington cheered by the hurrahs of our brother blockade-runners, who were taking in and discharging their cargoes, and steamed a short distance down the river, when we were boarded to be searched and smoked.
The ships of war fired salutes, the guns of the fortress thundered out their welcome; while the hurrahs and shouts of thousands rent the air, flags and handkerchiefs waving in a flood of joyful acclamation!
When riot comes in at the door, business flies out at the window; and, after all, this feast of hurrahs is merely another bid for business.
Enthusiastic hurrahs and the braying of trumpets awoke the echoes of the hills.
He turned to the left, tooted a couple of wild hurrahs through his newly wetted whistle, and raced to meet the traffic as it struggled through the gate in single file!
Every man and animal took to his heels, and Akbar trumpeted wild hurrahs as he strained all tendons in pursuit.
The mob howled in applause but a moment ago, shouted in loud hurrahs at every word I uttered.
They are always packed up in a box and left somewhere almost as soon as your handkerchiefs have ceased waving, your soprano hurrahs ceased ringing; or else they are given to some pet officer for a coverlet.
The scrutiny which the president of the Gun Club had instituted regarding this new rival was quickly interrupted by the shouts and hurrahs of the crowd.
Maston did not hear the hurrahs uttered in his honor, his ears at least tingled.
The whole population of San Francisco was gathered on the quay, greatly excited but silent, reserving their hurrahs for the return.
Most of them, especially the women, became very animated, and made a horrible noise, with hurrahs to the health of the Mayor who had given them this fête.
The roar of the artillery, the rattle of the musketry, the explosion of the shells, the loud hurrahs of the Russians, and the cries of the wounded made up a perfect hell.
The little bells of the processions, the big bells of the churches, the firing of cannon, the hurrahs of the tumultuous people, made an uproar which reached the three lonely women through the closed windows of their rooms.
Vast numbers, amounting to thousands, were charged with the bayonet into a raging mountain torrent, and drowned; the continued loud hurrahs telling the triumph of Germany.
As the Scotch bagpipes sounded in the distance, as the continual roll of musketry, the roar of the heavy guns, and the hurrahs of their deliverers rang in their ears, they were well-nigh bursting with joy.
The hurrahs of our fellows told both friend and foe that our blood was up.
So Texas, amid the groans of Boston and the hurrahs of Charleston, folded up her flag and came into the union.
Mingled with cheers for the new order in France were hurrahs for "the people's own, Andrew Jackson, the Hero of New Orleans and President of the United States!
Discharges of musketry reverberated on all sides, and it was only with difficulty that their joyous detonations could cope with the loud hurrahs from the assembled thousands.
Maston did not hear the hurrahs uttered in his honour, his ears at least tingled.
The scrutiny which the President of the Gun Club had instituted regarding this new rival was quickly interrupted by the shouts and hurrahs of the crowd.
The Act was passed by acclamation; there was much cheering, with the usual nine hurrahs after "God save the King," and then the fallen man was carried home.
A little later he heard the hurrahs of people cheering in the streets, and then a smothered echo of the same sound at the other side of his father's door.
The frenzied hurrahsof the men who heard her drowned her words.
He flung his arms round Mary's neck, amid the loud, joyous hurrahs of the crew on the yacht.
A storm of hurrahs burst forth from the yacht as the boat rowed off.
Consequently, the hurrahs which greeted the return of Lord Glenarvan to the yacht soon gave place to dejection.
Such were the questions which came from every side, but the shouts and hurrahs were so prolonged and loud that Martin was no longer heard.
The motley crowd swayed to and fro, and seemed eager for applause, so the hurrahs were re-echoed until Owen reached the judges' stand.
The hurrahs were almost as deafening as those which Coon-Hollow Jim received.
However, the Ensign took no time to indulge inhurrahs and congratulations.
While he remained, his face changing, shouts and hurrahs came from somewhere in the direction of the river.
The hurrahs were repeated, drowning the faint organ notes.
The Indians replied to the hurrahs of their foes by their terrific war cry, and bounded on them like coyotes, brandishing over their heads the blood-stained weapons.
At a public gathering in New York, where his picture was exhibited, the audience went wild with applause--the waving of handkerchiefs and the wild hurrahs were long and continued.
They did not fail, but did their duty nobly--a thousand hurrahs for the colored troopers of the Spanish-American war!
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