Which preposition to use with gestured
"I suppose you were aboard," said Barnett, and Trendon made a quick gesture of impatience and rebuke.
"Grinning old popinjay!" thought Mr. Parkinson; and envied him and internally noted, and with an unholy fervor cursed, the adroitness of intonation and the discreetly modulated gesture with which the colonel gave to every point of his merry-Andrewing its precise value.
And he slipped through the window, gesturing to George to come close.
But Dolly must have known the whip in some former life, for even a gesture toward the socket roused her.
A gesture from the gambler sent the gun into obscurity, yet still the fellow continued to fall back.
The Colonel turned his back to the North Pole, and made a fine large gesture in the general direction of the Equator.
"I wonder if Squire Clamp" The blacksmith nodded, with a gesture towards his children, as though he would not have them hear.
Still more effectually does the League forbid those creations of the futurist imagination, the imperialism of Italy and Greece, which make such threatening gestures at the world of our children.
Tone and gesture as revelations of the Inner-Me, the True-Me or Intra-Me if you will, are so potent because they are direct expressions of the vegetative apparatus.
(a gesture for expanse, then a reassuring gesture)
By the way, notice, in No. 25, the emphasis of gesture on the me.
When, therefore, the new-comer fearlessly laid his hand on an arm which could have killed him at a blow, and rather by gesture than by force released my captives, policy as well as instinct dictated submission.
But Mathieu, stupefied at finding her so well informed, and at a loss to understand why she spoke to him of that sorry affair after the lapse of so many years, could only make a gesture by which he betrayed both his surprise and his anxiety.
When, however, she saw that tears were Norine's only answer, she made an impatient gesture like an active woman who cannot afford to lose her time.
"Hereyou can have it after all," she said, crumpling the note and tossing it with a contemptuous gesture into her mother's lap.
she whispered, gesturing over her shoulder.
" He thrust his fingers with an impatient gesture through his hair.
Unconsciously he stiffenedhis old gesture before a woman.
* Nothing is more deplorable than a gesture without a motive.
He seemed to be pleading for something, and after a moment, with the faintest shrug of the shoulders, Nap lifted one hand and made a curious gesture above him.
Oliver bet $10 on red, a gesture after losing himself in admiration of the women.
She laid her cheek with a very loving gesture against his shoulder.
Yet there was not the least wanton smile or immodest gesture amongst them.
" Still standing there, he turned slightly and made a sharp gesture behind the throne with his left hand.
This reasoning, together with some significant winks and gestures between the justice and the plaintiffs, brought him over to their way of thinking.