No expansive gestures in case they asserted themselves in a manner akin to the highly gesticulatory thranx. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
One French doctor described women “who content themselves with a few gesticulatory movements, with a few spasms… and the like.”. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Like Us] Reference
The French loungers are gesticulatory, and shoulders, arms, fingers, eyes and eyebrows help out the tongue's rapid utterance; but they are never rude or boisterous. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
About that I am indifferent, if it be only quiet and not gesticulatory. From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
The great actor relies for genuine success on no mere gesticulatory mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
Slapping his thigh with the gesticulatory vehemence of a Ugo Foscolo, that gentleman exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
She was very voluble, gesticulatory and lucid, but unhappily bi-lingual, and at all the crucial points German. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr. Lewisham] Reference
There were vast surging crowds in the Rue de Rivoli, and much bunting, and soldiers and gesticulatory policemen. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
As Grinnell talked, he often paused in his work to imitate the gesticulatory enthusiasms of the saints at the camp-meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895] Reference
Macaulay's moral pedantry, Thiers's cold and repulsive cretinism, the melodramatic, gesticulatory effusiveness of Michelet are all typical styles. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Egolatry] Reference
One morning Philippe, the hotel proprietor, was trying to impress Brewster with a gesticulatory description of the glories of the Bataille de Fleurs. From Wordnik.com. [Brewster`s Millions] Reference
On this theme Klesmer's eloquence, gesticulatory and other, went on for a little while like stray fireworks accidentally ignited, and then sank into immovable silence. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
The person referred to as the governor, Paganetti by name, was an energetic, gesticulatory little man, tiresome to watch, his face assumed so many different expressions in a minute. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
In October the term began again, the pupils came back, new pupils were admitted, Monsieur Héger was more gesticulatory, vehement, commanding than usual, and Madame, in her quiet way, was no less occupied. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
This gesticulatory mode of rejection is an expression of the highest contempt, and it galled the young warrior so much that he was taken ill and took to his bed until he thought out a plan of revenge which cured him. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
He saw her start seriously on her task and then went downstairs, where he held a violent and gesticulatory conversation with the landlord and with a man in a green baize apron summoned from some dim lair of the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
But when a distinguished member and ornament of the chosen seats above blew cold upon their gesticulatory devotee, and was besides ungrateful; she was more than commonly assured of his being, as she called him, "a sphinx.". From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
This man, who was finally convinced that negroes were black, used it as an irrefragible argument to all that could be said, and at last began to deduce from it that they might just as well be slaves as anything else, and so he proceeded till all the philanthropy of our friend was roused, and he sprung up all lively and oratorical and gesticulatory and indignant to my heart's content. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference
I think of Andrew’s gesticulatory virtuosity as one of the most compelling attractions of Clusterflockstock. From Wordnik.com. [Prelude and Fugue in Andrew Major | clusterflock] Reference
Ferrani's protest was vigorous and gesticulatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Pawns Count] Reference
With that gesticulatory woe. From Wordnik.com. [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference
Native s'fragis, neglecting their work, were voluble, gesticulatory, but quite unintelligible. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of a Trooper] Reference
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