gesturings

Doctor Ladislau protesting with ineffectual attitudes against the violent gesturings of Morris, senior.

Tender is the Night 2003

She danced before Pilate in strange Eastern ways, in plastic weavings and gesturings that seemed to be the telling of a tale; and from the orchestra only one unknown instrument sobbed out to help her.

Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

Fantazius Mallare considered himself mad because he was unable to behold in the meaningless gesturings of time, space and evolution a dramatic little pantomime adroitly centered about the routine of his existence.

Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929

Out through the veil of surging warriors, the loud-voiced, impetuous brave twice burst his way, and seemed at one and the same time, in his superb poise and gesturings, to be urging the entire body to join him in instant assault on the troops, and hurling taunt and anathema on the besieged.

A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888

Their posturings and gesturings were elaborate and graceful, but their voices were stringently raspy and unpleasant, and there was a good deal of monotony about the tune.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

Their posturings and gesturings were elaborate and graceful, but their voices were stringently raspy and unpleasant, and there was a good deal of monotony about the tune.

Following the Equator, Part 5 Mark Twain 1872

To think of some things you did -- those smilings and chattings, rash pointings and gesturings.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

From the day when two hairy-naked or fig-leaved Human Figures began, as uncomfortable dummies, anxious no longer to be dumb, but to impart themselves to one another; and endeavoured, with gaspings, gesturings, with unsyllabled cries, with painful pantomime and interjections, in a very unsuccessful manner, -- up to the writing of this present copyright

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

No man of sound judgment (saith Beza (989)) will deny, _Jesum Christum quo nudior_, &c., “that Jesus Christ, the more naked he be, is made the more manifest to us; whereas, contrariwise, all false religions use by certain external gesturings to turn away men from divine things.”

The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

And the old graybeard who was Maid Marion was riotously drunk, and borne aloft with mad and feeble gesturings on the shoulders of two staggering young men, and after him came the aged morris dancers, only upheld from collapse in the mire by mutual upholdings, until they seemed like some monstrous animal moving with uncouth sprawls of legs as multifold as a centipede, and wavering drunkenly from one side of the road to the other, lurching into the dewy bushes, then recovering by the joint effort of the whole.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900