| 1. | Harker began to clap her hands and her eyes sparkled. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | 'There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 3. | To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float o. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | Clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | He had just found his clap of thunder. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | Clap clap hands till Poldy comes home. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | To clap this royal bargain up of peace. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | He smoked his pipe as we went along, and sometimes stopped to clap me on the shoulder. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 10. | And shining soars, and claps her wings above. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 11. | Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd sea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | So begob the citizen claps his paw on his knee and he say. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 13. | Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table and say. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 15. | I knows a lady what's got a white swelling quick as I claps eyes on her. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 16. | _She claps her hands_ Dance Dance _She runs to the pianola_ Who has twopenc. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 17. | A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole the carpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and straightway files it smaller. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 18. | NORA, who has been absorbed in her thoughts, breaks out into smothered laughter and claps her hands. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |