The immense audience rose to its feet and cheered the President as he passed to his box.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The audience rose to its feet and cheered tumultuously.
— from A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham

I have already spoken of the "Jubilee Minstrels," who were mostly born in slavery, many of whom indeed "came up by the rough side of the mountain," and yet who possessed such a wealth of music and song within themselves that they surprised the whole country, and even crossed the North Atlantic, and rendered themselves illustrious for all coming time by performing and singing before Queen Victoria, the grandees and general population of the British Isles, and some of the royal families, and magnates and peoples of continental Europe.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler