By that I mean no pantomimic by-play or facial expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
She executes a sinuous pantomimic dance of youth and desire. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
As I stepped out, the scene changed with pantomimic celerity. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
There was considerable pantomimic expression in her glove-cleaning. From Wordnik.com. [No Thoroughfare] Reference
Good pantomimic dancing, with grace and humor, should be worked into this. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
In a terrible pantomimic cartwheel, he struggled against the pull of gravity. From Wordnik.com. [The Distant Echo]
Another pantomimic skit in the bathetic spectacle that is the Labour conference. From Wordnik.com. [Cruising on Punternet] Reference
Her pantomimic action is so sympathetic throughout, so -- well, in fact, perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891] Reference
The dismayed Cymon concealed himself behind the curtain with pantomimic suddenness. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
It has been suggested that it might be the man's pantomimic protest against sitting at all. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870] Reference
For it is he who produces this huge pantomimic paradox with which this rambling reflection began. From Wordnik.com. [G.K. Speaks - Reflections on a Rotten Apple] Reference
And again, the most illustrious of the Roman youth are no better than slaves to the pantomimic performers. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
A change, however, is coming over us: a few pantomimic signs have already made their appearance amongst us. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
In the Salem episode they should surge forward and back, and discuss in pantomimic groups all that is happening. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
All this despite sundry vigorous and desperate shakings of Grace's head and pantomimic pointings toward her feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers] Reference
The happenings of the last few months, foreshortened in perspective, seemed to have almost a pantomimic rapidity. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
On the walls were hanging huge charts, giving in pantomimic proportions the proposed progress of the projected line. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
Too small a stage makes a great number of players seem a huddled mass, and through this pantomimic effects are lost. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Thus the Chinese theatre, with its union with music, should rather be called opera, although it offers a sort of pantomimic show. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
After a great deal of violent pantomimic action and grimace, the apology offered by Atoi was accepted, and the visit was concluded by. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference
When Mr. Dodd's turn to speak came, he arose, and without a word, gravely gave a pantomimic reproduction of the orator's acts and gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
She early developed a rare ability for pantomimic representation; and this became a favorite form of entertainment in drawing-rooms and studios. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
ALADDIN at the Alhambra is a genuine "Ballet Extravaganza," the story being told in pantomimic action, illustrated by M. JACOBI'S sympathetic music. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893] Reference
Every stage dancer employs as well her face, hands and arms in giving expression to grace, beauty, and the many interpretations of her pantomimic art. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
A large amount of gesture and pantomime is naturally employed in their conversation, and it thus becomes easy to train them to perform pantomimic plays. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Dancing was an adjunct to music, though often practised as a separate branch of entertainment, and brought to a high state of perfection in its pantomimic form. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Both these gentlemen with pantomimic actions in a few words which now I know were English words but at that time I could not tell if they were Chinese or Hindoo. From Wordnik.com. [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference
The only unpleasant circumstance was the persistent repetition by a deaf-mute of a pantomimic representation of the disaster that he believed was to overwhelm us. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
With true Venetian comradery the crowd tossed them light banter on the names of their divisions, with pantomimic interpretation, in response to their sweeping salutations. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
The "masque" or pantomimic pageant, without dialogue, was also a familiar spectacle of the later times, and remained an occasional feature of the drama in its development. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Daylight brought back my senses, and I was convinced that the pantomimic spirit of the people, however unaccountably it might disregard proprieties, had been busy with the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
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