after-clap

Strange to say, the gale, after easing to a mild breeze, recrudesced in a sort of after-clap.

CHAPTER XLVI 2010

There is a respectable separation-of-powers argument to be made that Congress had no business giving federal courts a check on the executive branch's conduct of foreign counterintelligence, but the after-clap of the Nixon excesses was no time to make it, and at this point, after a quarter century, FISA is now settled law.

Archive 2006-06-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

There is a respectable separation-of-powers argument to be made that Congress had no business giving federal courts a check on the executive branch's conduct of foreign counterintelligence, but the after-clap of the Nixon excesses was no time to make it, and at this point, after a quarter century, FISA is now settled law.

Article II and the Underpants Gnomes Glenn Greenwald 2006

In 1871 Ralph Waldo Emerson dismissed Mormonism as nothing more than an "after-clap of Puritanism."

Oh, Gods! 2002

In 1871 Ralph Waldo Emerson dismissed Mormonism as nothing more than an "after-clap of Puritanism."

Oh, Gods! 2002

Sometimes they even catch an after-clap of the murder urge, if it hasn't all been expended on the first victim or victims.

The Night of the Long Knives Fritz Leiber 1951

Great was the panic in Berry, an after-clap of the disturbances in the capital.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

"No, not exactly!" said Joseph, rolling back his wristbands and settling himself in his clothes; "it's the after-clap, if I shouldn't happen to please," he added, in a whisper, that brought his lips so close to the cheek of his fair tormentor, that he absolutely gathered toll from its peachy bloom before starting on his pilgrimage, a toll that brought the glow still more richly to her face.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

Strange to say, the gale, after easing to a mild breeze, recrudesced in a sort of after-clap.

Chapter 46 1914

So, little by little, he gave her a peep into his affairs and found she was one of them rare people who can feel quite a bit of honest interest in their neighbour's good luck, with no after-clap of sourness, because their own ain't so bright.

The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911