Their gesticulation is menacing, both to the Court and the bystanders, and an equal portion of all they say, is distributed to every part of the hall. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Ringside Seats to Gibbons v. Ogden] Reference
General Prokesch d'Osten with a good deal of gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Ella's gesticulation was eloquent of how much that had been. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
He sometimes used graceful and natural gesticulation, but not. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
His conception is just, and his gesticulation worthy of example. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
Chocker was introduced, with great gesticulation on the part of Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Kiska's English was uncertain, but there was no misreading his gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
His attitude is dignified, and his gesticulation is full of noble simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
French, and gabbled with the rapidity of lightning and a great deal of gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Here they engaged in an animated conversation, if much gesticulation is any indication. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We saw Mrs. Romulus mount a barrel and harangue the seceders with furious gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
We do not ask for a slavering flux of sentiment, or an acrobat's display in gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
The representations of dramas of early times were attended with dancing and gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
After making a noise like a dog fight he departed with a final gesticulation in our direction. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
At last there is a general movement, as well as general clamour of voices and much gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Charles burst into a loud laugh at their innocent surprise at his violent gesticulation and grimace. From Wordnik.com. [The Barbadoes Girl A Tale for Young People] Reference
Madame smiled very graciously upon me, and then recommenced the gesticulation and babble of the two. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
Much talking and gesticulation, too, among the mothers of the tribe over the white skin of the little stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
They were talking with much gesticulation, and seemed busied with two men among a group of about thirty soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They were engaged in a very animated discussion, accompanied with as much gesticulation as if they had been a parcel of. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Like all orators of the Latin race, his fervor showed itself, not only in his tones, but in his gesticulation and his postures. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
An old man in scant clothing, with emaciated face and frenzied gesticulation, was shouting out a strain of fearful denunciation. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
At this period it is probable he learned that grimace, buffoonery and gesticulation which he afterwards displayed from the pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
English -- it has been remarked a thousand and odd times -- is one of the few languages which is unaccompanied with gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
Mr. Ingersoll is not a philosopher, nor a theologian, though he may be, as we hear, an orator of matchless voice and gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
College is a time for self evaluation, contemplation, and meaningful gesticulation of one's fist at a Thursday night fraternity party. From Wordnik.com. [OG Oyiborhoro: Tomorrow Starts Today] Reference
Delivered with much violent gesticulation, the speech is evidently to the taste of the audience, who cheer and applaud more or less ironically. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
His figure was undersized, his visage brown, hard, and peasantlike, his gesture was a gesticulation, and his voice was alternately feeble and shrill. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
She soon learned that good taste of itself condemned that kind of demeanour; in fact, gesticulation and noisy manners have never been popular in France. '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Cinesias was not a dancer, but a dithyrambic poet, who declaimed with much gesticulation and movement that one might almost think he was performing this dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
The shop-signs and advertisements were mostly written in Hebrew characters, loud conversation in a foreign language accompanied by vivacious gesticulation, caught the ear. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
The darky had somehow learned to read, but holding the paper at arm's length, and throwing himself into a theatrical attitude, he cried out, with any amount of gesticulation. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
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