Crossword-Solution: ENCORING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Besides, a concert of amateurs had been smuggled into the program (to precede me,) and their families and friends (say ten per cent of the audience) kept encoring them and they always responded.

Darbois needed a little rest, and presented her compliments to the audience and excused herself from replying to the encoring.

Otherwise he would be encoring it every time we had a good subject, and that would be inconvenient, because I hadn't any more bombs along.

MELBA, as the "Lily Maid of Astolat," charming, with a charming song, "_L'Amour est pur_." The audience was in an encoring humour, but, thank goodness, only a few encores were taken, and the others left, otherwise none of us would have been home till sunrise.

Parke describes the custom of encoring performers as a prerogative that had been exercised by the public for more than a century; and says, with some justice, that it originated more from self-love in the audience than from gratitude to those who had afforded them pleasure.