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Usage examples of cheer.

With the canals frozen, thousands of skaters took to the ice, a spectacle that provided what little cheer Adams found in life.

All through Massachusetts and Connecticut people lined the road to cheer Adams as one of their own, a New England man.

The Akkadian raft-keepers clapped and cheered, shouting encouragements, seemingly unfazed by the crossing.

Monday, May 18 0427 hours Coast road South of Amoy, China Holt gave a muffled cheer.

Miles in the distance, from faraway Anaheim Stadium, came the sounds of a Blue Cheer concert.

So they too cheered, and loudly, at this further evidence that the Empress-in-exile of Andhra was a force to be reckoned with.

Instantly, then, shouts of laughter--torchlight scattering the shadows amid gloom--green cypresses --fire--color splurging on the bosom of the water--babel of hundreds of voices as the gay Antiochenes swarmed out from behind the trees--and a cheer, as the girls by the altar threw their garments off and scampered naked along the river-bank toward a bridge that joined the temple island to the sloping lawns, where the crowd ran to await them.

The Wart cheered, Archimedes hooted till he cried, the gore-crow fell down dead, and Hecate, on the top of her ladder, clapped so much that she nearly tumbled off.

Mocking cheers greeted him from the members of both bands, who were sitting at separated tables, as was the rule for tours.

Bastille Day enlivened the downtown area in mid-July, culminating in the Great Circus Parade that strutted down Wisconsin Avenue complete with hundred-year-old wagons brought by train from Baraboo, Wisconsin, and unloaded by horses in the train yard to the delight of scores of cheering children and equally happy grown-ups.

It went on that way, each sentence interrupted by cheers and applause, as Baraka told how the men had found out plans for a sneak Israeli attack on Lobynia with atomic pistols, and they set out deep into the heartland of Israel, even into Tel Aviv, and foiled the plan and laid much of that city waste before they were finally overwhelmed by the entire Israeli army.

As the cheering continued, Baraka searched the faces of the Americans gathered in a soldier-contained group in front of him.

The rush went on and on, for a long time, and at last, sure enough, along comes the barkeeper, and then everybody rose, and a cheer went up that made the heavens shake, I tell you!

In the State Capitol that night, another extraordinary declaration of rebellion by Governor Barnett was read to the cheering legislature.

AMERICAN INSURRECTION Soon after the game, the cheers still ringing in his ears, Barnett phoned Robert Kennedy and called off the decoy plan.