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'HEAR, HEAR !'

The uso of the expression v' Hear, hear !' is so common in England that Mr. O'Connor declares that American: audiences struck him as cold and unsympathetic. Of the House~of • • Commons he saya, ' A speaker is hardly allowed to uter half a sentence without, an interruption of some kind; either of assent or 3i3sent, while the 'Hear^ hear !* itseli carries »' speaker along from point to point in the way that can be / understood only by those who havo been subjected to its influence.' At a time •■when.-- a contigent ■ of troops from . fndia were visiting England, a niunbsi' of their native. oiHcers, arrayed in strange and , gorgeous uniforms, were ushered into the ; gallery for distinguished strangers. Tho sudden contrast of these Oriental eoid.ejcs^with British law-makers—^its/; proud suggestion of the vastness of the empire to which both, belonged, and which both so differently served— aroused an unusual sentiment in :the House, and spontaneously, from. all diwc'ions and all parties, broke. a great -'Hear, hear •* bo loud, so prolonged, so charged with welcome and emotion, that the strangers under^ stood. They started to their feet, and standing erect and soldierly, with grave faces and flashing eyes, each man brought his hand to his turban in salttte. / \- : >

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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2

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'HEAR, HEAR !' Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2

'HEAR, HEAR !' Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2