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.

She stopped and held up her small beaded fan, 'what's that the band's playing?

He carried a large fan with charms attached, which he waved constantly during the audience, often laughing heartily"a good sign, for a man who shakes his sides with mirth is seldom difficult to deal with.

There were three or four old men with grey hair sitting in the first row of stalls (most uncomfortable seats) who followed every note of the music, turning around and frowning at any unfortunate person in a box who dropped a fan or an opera-glass.

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.

The day happens to be Lady Windermere's birthday, and at the beginning of the act her husband has given her a beautiful ostrich-feather fan.

" "Yes, but" Etta paused, opening the fan and examining the sticks so closely that her face was hidden by the feathers.

" Miss Prudence moved the fan backward and forward and studied the sleeping, innocent face.

She picked up the fan which he had dropped, and waved it softly to and fro above me, smiling gently down into my face.

" The lady had recovered her simper; and now flirted her fan as gracefully as ever.

The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.

Upon the afternoon of such a day as this, Miss POTTS is informed, by a servant, that Mr. BUMSTEAD has arrived, and, sending her his love, would be pleased to have her come down stairs to him and bring him a fan.

Discharge your Fans, Ground your Fans, Recover your Fans, Flutter your Fans.

The Ladies who carry Fans under me are drawn up twice a-day in my great Hall, where they are instructed in the Use of their Arms, and exercised by the following Words of Command, Handle your Fans, Unfurl your fans.

She looked up at him, and then for some moments kept silence while she idly opened and shut her fan.

The "Fan" has a distorted pipe from which are projected two radiating sheets of water to the height of sixty feet, resembling a feather fan.

Lady Saumarez has just slipped out by that door, up R., and if I look about I shall certainly find her fan, or her glove, or her handkerchief somewhere on the premises."

Let’s imagine that we haven’t any names,—I’m sure my name isn’t of any use, and I’ll be glad to go nameless all my days if only—” “If only—” she repeated idly, opening and closing her fan.

"Then I'll send a fan, too," answered Tom, "and I'll send Mrs. Laning a workbox.

He was some distance off, and she entered a shop and bought a Spanish fan she did not want.

Quite forgetting her cousin, she tossed her head, twirled her fan, gave affected little shrieks at college jokes, and talked college slang in a way that convulsed Fletcher, who enjoyed the fun immensely.

A profound stillness suddenly fell upon the wigwam; the men ceased to talk and the ladies to flutter their fans; one could distinctly hear the scratching of pencils and the ticking of telegraph instruments on the reporters' tables.

Upon my giving the Word to discharge their Fans, they give one general Crack that may be heard at a considerable distance when the Wind sits fair.

" She unfurled her fan.

Cold Winter is comingtake care of your toes Gay Zephyr has folded his fan; His lances are couch'd in the ice-wind that blows, So mail up as warm as you can.