Once in a while, a handclap.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Well, while you lecture, you are to look into rows of stony faces and when you finish, there is not to be a word spoken, not a single handclap, nothing but stillness as the girls file out of the hall.
"Molly Brown's Senior Days"
Nell Speed
As Danton spoke, an influential Royalist, pretending to handclap his sentiments, privately signaled to a number of these "spadassins" or killers.
"Orphans of the Storm"
Henry MacMahon