Some orator would say something that displeased the public, and in a moment there would be the greatest uproar, protestations and accusations from all sides, some of the extreme Left getting up, gesticulating wildly, and shaking their fists at the speakerthe

In the early times, there must have been those who stood apart from their tribesmen in contests of pure athletic skill,in running, jumping, leaping, wrestling, in laying on thew and thigh with arm, hand, and curled fist in sheer delight of action, and of the display of strength.

Then he beat his fist on his knee.

" He sat looking at a wreath of roses in the light carpet, lips compressed, beating with fist into palm.

In very sooth the Pardoner of Pardoners am I, with pardons and indulgences but now hot from the holy fist of His Holiness of Rome: moreover I have a rare charm and notable cure for the worms, together with divers salves, electuaries, medicaments and nostrums from the farthest Orient.

Twenty-five seconds only of this round had gone when Darrin landed his right fist with fearful force upon the high point of Pennington's jaw.

She restrained her sorrow and was very brave until night; but, when she had gone to her own room, she gave way to it, burying her face in the pillow and pressing her two fists against her temples.

'His clenched fist to his forehead on your leaving him in just displeasure'that is, when she was not satisfied with my ardours, if it please ye!I remember the motion: but her back was towards me at the time.

I'm not findin' fault, but what on earth put it into your head to go at me with your fists like that?" "You'll never prove it by me.

Granny MARBLE, to the extreme left of the picture, clenches her fists over the pungent suds, and looks fight at Granny JONES, of the Times.

His reputation for tact and delicacy is tremendous; and yet those who have found themselves opposed to him have never been long in realising that there was a most redoubtable mailed fist under the velvet glove.

"I'm better with my fists than with my brains, Alfred.

He leaned out of the wagon to shake a bloodless, trembling fist toward the temple where the soldiers had made their barracks.

Several of the workmen had pressed in with the students in the morning into the inner town, and some big men, with rough darned coats and dirty caps over their ears, were seen clenching their fists for the fight.

The first thing that I saw when I scrambled to my feet was the fat dull face of the guard shining like a harvest moon, and presenting a mark for my fist as round and big as a punching-bag.

Right out of the middle of him there grows up a long arm that reaches to the top of the water, and at the end of this arm is a fist about the size of a yawl-boat, with fifty-two fingers to it, with each one of them covered with little suckers that will stick fast to anythingiron, wood, stone, or flesh.

He raised clenched, trembling fists above his head, and brought them down, a shattering blow, upon the keyboard.

The three listeners shouted the chorus at the top of their voices, pounding the table with their fists by way of a sort of drum accompaniment.

The tiger shook the man's fist out of its mouth and made another attempt to reach his throat.

On their feet and ankles they wear boots, but the soles are so strangely made, that when a man walks, his heels and toes only touch the ground, while the middle of the foot is raised up so high, that one may thrust the fist through below; and thence they walk with great difficulty.

A black head bobbed through the leaves, and Holman planted a fist between the newcomer's eyes before the head could be withdrawn.

And meanwhile Frederick, who had never let a farthing escape from his close fist without some very good reason, was busy concocting an epigram upon the avarice of Voltaire.

With a sharp catch of my breath I left my chair and stood with clenched fists beside it.

Jimmie shook his fist behind the newcomer's back.

" Sam swung his huge legs out of the hammock, took a seat near Jim, and, reaching out, he gently closed his immense fist around the little white hand of the boy.