554 collocations for waved

Percy Darrow waved his hand in an indescribably graceful and ironic gesture; then turned square on his heel and sauntered away to the north valley, out of the course of the lava.

Shamán say he gottah scare off" He waved his arm against an invisible army.

The Indians were then about three-quarters of a mile distant, and we stopped and waved our hats at them, and fired some shots at long range.

The fool who attaches himself by the heels to the car of an ascending balloon is sure to have thousands of feeble-minded females waving handkerchiefs at him.

Hip, hip, hooray!" cried Abe, waving an imaginary flag as he entered.

M. Armand watched it for a moment, then mounted into the cab which was waiting, waved a last farewell to me, and followed after the van.

The Boy ran out and shouted and waved his cap.

The seigneurs waved their swords.

A wizard could, by waving his wand, summon the "Nimble Men" to dance in the northern sky.

Beyond, and extending over all the middle ground, are somber swaths of pine, interrupted by huge swelling ridges and domes; and just beyond the dark forest you see the monarchs of the High Sierra waving their magnificent banners.

Entering the parlor with a soft tread Miss Prudence divested herself of hat, gloves, duster and umbrella, and, taking a large palm leaf fan from the table, seated herself near the sleeper, gently waving the fan to and fro as a fly lighted on Marjorie's hands or face.

Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipped in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.

I remember noticing the distress of a pair of robins during the violent earthquake of the year 1872, when the pines of the Valley, with strange movements, flapped and waved their branches, and beetling rock-brows came thundering down to the meadows in tremendous avalanches.

The public was curious, a little of everythingmembers of the National Assembly, officers all in uniform, pretty women of all categoriesthe group of journalists with keen eager faces watching every change of expression of the marshal's facesome well-known faces, wives of members or leading political and literary men, a fair amount of the frailer sisterhood, actresses and demi-mondaines, making a great effect of waving plumes and diamonds.

So it was arranged, and a couple of days later, with a wildly beating heart and a rueful smile upon her lips, Billie stood with Chet upon the station platform and waved good-bye to her father and mother.

"Why don't he come in?" questioned Abe, waving back a greeting as well as he could with the treasured cup in one of his hands and the saucer in the other; whereupon Sarah Jane, that ugly duckling, explained that the fellow, being a confirmed woman-hater, cooked all his own meals in the smokehouse, and insisted upon all his orders being left on a slate outside the tool-house door.

Then she threw off all repression and so waved her tail that she regularly got it across the reins.

Ruddy-faced, bright-eyed, with dark full beard and waving hair almost jet blackhair that crinkled about his ears in a way that I can describe by no other word than fascinatinghe gave the impression of tremendous strength and virility.

Hurrah!" ended the lawyer, waving the yellow paper above his head.

Beyond waved the golden fields of wheat.

How much more noble is such courage, how infinitely superior is such a warfare, one which mows down forest trees instead of men, which creates green pastures, broad meadows, and fields of waving grain, instead of smouldering cities, and desolated homes!

[She waves the torch as though bearing incense.

Magnolias and palm trees wave their heads proudly, while bananas, oranges, and bread fruit abound in rank profusion.

To the east and west of this is a wide expanse of alluvial flats, covered in most parts with rich, waving grass, the sameness of the scenery being relieved by detached patches of open park-like forest of flooded-gum.

But yet for all that we've got our masters,' he cried with a scowl, waving his clinched fist in the direction of the mines; 'you'll find it out when you get there.'

554 collocations for  waved