Afterclap

The sound woke him some mornings when the planes flew right over and sometimes he stood outside his quarters before nightfall and watched the matched contrails of half a dozen aircraft in tight formation, the planes themselves long gone, but it was the drag and sonic shock, this is what awed and moved him, and then the afterclap rolling off the mountains, like they were blowing out a seam in the world. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

The shock of her fall had begun to awaken the nervous terror which is the afterclap of such an adventure. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)

The glow of the afterclap of danger was on them, and in the warm excitement each forgot the paralyzing fear that had but now padlocked his lips. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

Then it was bitter - deucedly bitter - and there was no horrid apprehension of morphia or other deadly drug left in the mind as afterclap. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The War of 1812 has been called by an able historian "the afterclap of the Revolution." ❋ Unknown (1905)

Its afterclap of 1812 displayed little but empty bombast and greed. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Now this was absurd; for what with the blare of the postillion's horn, the clatter of hoofs, the jolting and rumbling of wheels, the rattle of glass, our travellers had all the noise to themselves -- or all but the voice of the gale now rising again for an afterclap and snoring at the street corners. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

And then, upon these two convictions that there is, if I might so say, an afterclap, and that it is the time and the sphere in which the fairest hopes that ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

This is a sort of afterclap you little ex - pected, but I cannot possibly afford them at a cheaper rate. ❋ Unknown (1812)

Prussia's kings and the masterpieces that commemorate them were extolled with a prosiness that sounded like an afterclap of William's Reichstag and monument orations. " ❋ Stanley Shaw (N/A)

Prussia's kings and the masterpieces that commemorate them were extolled with a prosiness that sounded like an afterclap of William's Reichstag and monument orations.” ❋ Shaw, Stanley (1913)

That burglary following so immediately upon the festivities of our delightful Christmas holidays, seemed a most trying and unfortunate afterclap; but we will hope for better things next time. " ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

Grappling with the gnawing feelings of his culpability, poring over the physical evidence of his guilt, he obsesses over the nature and extent of his accountability in the afterclap - the unexpected damage that follows the end of an affair. " ❋ Unknown (2010)