Each was expressing itself in its own way,singing its own song, and making its own peculiar gestures,manifesting a richness of variety to be found in no other forest I have yet seen.

" He gave a gesture of dissent.

Well, well!"she had repeated the impatient gesture.

The Captain obeyed the gesture, but his huge frame looked awkward on the low seat; he felt aware of it, then aware of the cap on his head; he snatched it off hastily, and twiddled it between his fingers.

" Little men may admire but must not try to imitate these gestures of the giants.

The servant was about to follow her when, turning her head, she saw her young mistress' gesture, and she returned.

In vain did Harry attempt to drive the faithful creature from him, for never having been an unwelcome companion before, the dog did not understand his master's threatening gestures; yet he could understand that something was amiss, and for that reason kept close upon his master's heels, to shield him from all danger.

The two visitors followed his gesture, and gazed in amazement at the walls covered with utensils, at the rough furniture, and at the table on which the children were still building their village after offering their cheeks to be kissed.

I watched the gestures of the pines while the storm was at its height, and it was easy to see that they were not distressed.

I observed their gestures and the various expressions of their corollas, inquiring how they could be so fresh and beautiful out in this volcanic desert.

She perceived that she had moved throughout like an automaton swayed by a will outside its own; functioning rather than living; performing appointed business, executing prescribed gestures, uttering foreordained observations, and making dictated responses, all without suggestion of spontaneity, and all without meaning other than as means to bridge an empty space of waiting.

A Dane wrote to Garrick from Copenhagen on Dec. 23, 1769:'There is some of our retinue who, not understanding a word of your language, mimic your gesture and your action: so great an impression did it make upon their minds, the scene of daggers has been repeated in dumb show a hundred times, and those most ignorant of the English idiom can cry out with rapture, "A horse, a horse; my kingdom for a horse!"' Garrick Corres. i. 375.

The beggar-woman had already noticed the girl's gesture and stretched out her hands in her direction.

"What has become of them?" Lanyard offered a vague gesture."... tried to climb a tree," he replied wearily, and dropping back on the rear seat began to worry the cork out of the last pint bottle of champagne.

He flung out a gesture of scarcely restrained rage.

If she were of a suspicious, prying disposition, given to weighing every word and marking every gesture of a delirious patient, what might we not fear from her circumspection when Carmel's memory asserted itself and she grew more precise in the frenzy which now exhausted itself in unintelligible cries, or the ceaseless repetition of her sister's name.

She took off her glovesa gesture habitual with her whenever possible.

" Mrs. Benedek threw back her head and laughed, a familiar gesture which her enemies declared was in some way associated with the dazzling whiteness of her teeth.

Or else one may wander about and take sketches of it from a dozen different points of view, record little delicacies of detail, tiny whims and irregularities; and thus one learns more of the variety and humours of the place, its gestures and irritabilities, its failures of purpose or design.

She waved an eloquent little gesture toward the azure-lighted gulf.

Again he repressed a gesture of despairsix thousand francs!

A laugh greeted the gesture.

With a sweeping, protecting gesture he drew a round Billy an imaginary circle.

COLTON, HARVEY The Shanghai gesture.

Thus, amid much laughing and talking, and quaint gestures, and not a little expectoration, they perform their ablutions.