It is what is known as a gesture.

That is what astounds me, Jeevesthat it should be Gussie who has been putting in all this heavy gesture-making stuff.

A gesture!" "What?" "You got engaged to Gussie just to score off Tuppy?" "I did.

It was a gesture.

It was with a rather imperious gesture that I summoned Jeeves to my side.

His person was sufficiently advantageous, he had a ready memory, proper gesture, and just elocution, but then he was unhappy in his voice, which had not power enough to rouse the galleries, or to rant with any success; besides, he was defective in point of assurance, nor could ever enough overcome his natural timidity.

In the beginning of the year 1700, Farquhar brought his Constant Couple, or Trip to the Jubilee, upon the stage, it being then the jubilee year at Rome; but our author drew so gay, and airy a figure in Sir Harry Wildair, so suited to Mr. Wilks's talents, and so animated by his gesture, and vivacity of spirit, that it is not determined whether the poet or the player received most reputation by it.

Before departing, Janet lifted her veil, with a beautiful gesture, and offered her lips to kiss.

The actual Hilda, living far within the mysterious fastness of her own being, was too solitary, too preoccupied, and too fatigued, to be touched even by the noble beauty that distinguished the expiatory and protective gesture of the spinster, otherwise somewhat ludicrous, as she leaned across the bed and cut off the sunshine.

The whole of her being became an appealthe glance, the gesture, the curve of the slim and fragile body.

It was opened by bands of wailing women, musicians, and dancers; one of the latter was dressed out and furnished with a mask after the likeness of the deceased, and by gesture doubtless and action recalled once more to the multitude the appearance of the well-known man.

And Moll, flinging herself betwixt the knife and Dawson, with fear for his life, and yet with some dignity in her voice and gesture, answers swiftly: "This drunken villain is my father.

Upon explaining our circumstances as well as our small knowledge of the tongue allowed us, he makes us a gesture of his open hands, as if he would have us examine his house for ourselves, to see that she was not hid away there for any reason, and then calling his servants, he bids them seek through all the town, promising them a rich reward if they bring any tidings of Lala Mollah.

Mohand makes a gesture of regret, and turning to his men tells them to take us, but to use no weapons, since we had none.

Buck saw the shadowed gesture of an arm, and he cocked his pistol.

To follow for ten minutes in the street some swaggering, canine cavalier, is to receive a lesson in dramatic art and the cultured conduct of the body; in every act and gesture you see him true to a refined conception; and the dullest cur, beholding him, pricks up his ear and proceeds to imitate and parody that charming ease.

Paredes, with a quick gesture of surrender, stepped in and obeyed.

Robinson made a gesture of revulsion.

The case is desperate, and I am desperate, too" "Do not say it" "Then say that you will marry Veronica, and save us all, and bring peace into the housefor my sake, Bosiofor me!" She leaned forward, and her hands met upon her knee in something like a gesture of supplication, while she sought his eyes.

He isso," answered the Duca, with a gesture which meant uncertainty.

Still she could talk with him, and listen to him, and answer smile and word and gesture.

You could have got it just as easily as not!" He laughed and thrust his thumbs in his waistcoat armholes with the gesture she disliked.

and he made a gesture toward his idle easel.

" She made a gesture of mock helplessness.

The big man smiled again and pointed to the fire with a gesture of invitation.

And you did not even retain her, to the end that you might keep Caerellia fearlessly, whom you debauched when she was as much older than yourself as the maiden you married was younger, and to whom you write such letters as a jester at no loss for words would write if he were trying to get up an amour with a woman seventy years old.

Prince Henry Here he has stolen a jester's cap and bells, And dances with the Queen.

* JOHN HEYWOOD One of the first who wrote English plays, was a noted jester, of some reputation in poetry in his time.

A public, scurrilous, and profane jester, that more swift than Circe, with absurd similes, will transform any person into deformity.

It must be some miserable jester who has worded, printed, and placarded this unconscionable decree.

No more screaming shells, and we are both alive!" said the jester, lying on the ground at his master's feet.

the jester kept repeating, and at the word "shells" the women groaned.

"Last night no one thought we should be alive this evening, Sire," said the jester.

What is so terrible as death?" "One thing is more terrible," said the jester, "it is death's brother, fear.

" "Your Majesty is pleased to overlook Paradise," said the jester.

" "Truly," said the jester, "the joys of the Prophet's Paradise are nothing to be compared with the blessedness of your Majesty's happy reign.

" "Truly, Sire," said the jester, "from the days of Midhat it was ready, and there are peacemakers more silent than the sword.

" "Ah, Sire," said the jester, "you have shown us how these Christians love one another!

" "Forget not, Sire," said the jester, "the names of Fehim and Izzet, who stood beside you and also stored up the wealth of Islam against the coming of that great day.

" "Ah, Sire," said the jester, "you have shown us how these Christians love one another!

" "Forget not, Sire," said the jester, "the names of Fehim and Izzet, who stood beside you and also stored up the wealth of Islam against the coming of that great day.

" "Ah, Sire," said the jester, "even in your blessed reign men have died.

" "Sire," said the jester, "people are lighting lamps in the street.

Tell them they dare not kill me!" "Sire," said the jester, "greatness shares the common fate.

The lord and lady attended by the steward, sword, purse, and mace-bearer, with their several badges of office, honour the hall with their presence; they have likewise, in their suit, a page, or train-bearer, and a jester, dressed in a parti-coloured jacket.

Companies of morrice-dancers, attended by the jester and tabor and pipe, go about the country on Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun week, and collect sums towards defraying the expenses of the Yule.

M. LASSALLE, not ideal Jester, physically, but, vocally, never was Rigoletto better.

JESTER, RALPH. Talking shadows; the way of life in Hollywood.

Ralph Jester (A); 15Dec69; R474752.

I like your jester.'