Gestures

Examples

• He was a long way down the sunny street, and was making expressive gestures for me to stop. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I do frequently; when the gestures or looks of a pair seem telling a tale: it amuses me to watch them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There was something to be done before she left the house: to be done with all the nobility she knew how to put into such gestures. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Miss Miller was now the only teacher in the room: a group of great girls standing about her spoke with serious and sullen gestures. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He made all manner of gestures while he spoke, as if in incidental imitation of some few of the great diversity of signals that he had never seen. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• If it divided the world among the kings, it made respectful gestures towards human unity and the service of God and man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He did not at all guess what I felt: he did not read my eyes, or face, or gestures; though, I doubt not, all spoke. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The more I made faces and gestures to him to do it, the more confidential, argumentative, and polite, he persisted in being to Me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There was something strangely familiar in every line of him; in his carriage, his manner of speaking, his gestures. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Her gentle mien, step, gestures, her grace of person and attire, moved some artist-fibres about his peasant heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Silenus, by his drunken gestures, and difficulty in keeping his seat, evoked roars of laughter, and was quite the hero of the hour. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• With a dozen words, and as many gestures, he turned out half the persons present, and obliged the remnant to fall into rank. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• An Italian lad had got an audience about him, and with animated gestures was describing some scene of horror. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nobody ever saw one animal, by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Meanwhile, Turkish forces, very ill equipped, were making threatening gestures at Egypt across the desert of Sinai. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It expresses itself by your eye at times; and again, it gives you certain tones and certain gestures that make my flesh creep. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There was an assemblage of persons under the portico of our house, in whose gestures I instinctively read some heavy change, some new misfortune. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Marion