Clear the court
Dec. 21st, 2007 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webofevilI've just been reading about a court-martial in 1840 where the crowd of spectators applauded the defendant so loudly that the President of the proceedings, Major-General the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham, had cause to shout, “Clear the court this moment! I will have no such ebullitions![1]”
[1] n. 1. The state or process of boiling 2. A sudden, violent outpouring, as of emotion
[1] n. 1. The state or process of boiling 2. A sudden, violent outpouring, as of emotion
