pantomimical

In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

I gave for the birthday of M. d'Epinay the idea of a kind of piece half dramatic and half pantomimical, of which I also composed the music.

The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way; for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things, -- the worldly, theatrical, and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual, and ethereal.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

I held a long pantomimical dialogue with them, across the water, and held out the olive branch in token of amity.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2 Charles Sturt 1832

I held a long pantomimical dialogue with them, across the water, and held out the olive branch in token of amity.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832

Besides the dances common among us, a sort of fandango is a favourite here: it is expressly adapted to display the graces of a fine figure to the best advantage, and is danced by two persons, whose picturesque attitudes and motions are accompanied on the guitar, and by tender songs, according in expression with the pantomimical representations of the dance.

A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 Otto von Kotzebue 1816

In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

The most famous pantomimical ballets or _ballets d'action_ (as they are styled) now represented here, are _Psyché_, _Télémaque_, _Le

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

The old man, during this pantomimical conversation, in some degree recovered his spirits; and Mr Furneaux, to confirm his professions of friendship, gave him a hatchet, some nails, beads, and other trifles; after which he re-embarked on board the boats, and left the pendant flying.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

During our pantomimical conference, an old man often laid his head down upon the stones, and shutting his eyes for about half

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784