The beast had doubtless a very plentiful ignorance of the English language, but gesture is a universal speech.
She took possession, as it were, by a sweeping gesture of her head; then silently gave her hand in greeting to Old Dave, who had ranged up beside her and swung the dancing Miranda to his shoulder.
And when he had walked down to the street he turned and bowed and made a farewell gesture with his hand.
This Boston," making a pretty gesture with her hand, "has the most splendid ones about the war and all, and the ships coming over here almost two hundred years ago.
Doris made a pretty gesture with her hand, and he walked to the door, glancing around.
She turned on them suddenly, spreading her arms in a wide gesture of self-absolution.
And all that sort of thing," she said sweepingly, and he could almost see the inclusive gesture with her free hand.
If I could only induce you to forgive her," began Hetty, throwing out her hands to the Wrandalls, only to be met by a gesture of repugnance from the grim old man.
She made a gesture as if she would have snatched it from him, but he thrust it back in its hiding-place with a sarcastic smile.
Tom sprang forward with a cry of terror at the change his absence had made in her appearance, but a gesture from Mellen warned him that he must control his feelings lest his anxiety should agitate her.
She was too greatly agitated for words then, but she put out her hands with a gesture he understood.
The woman saw the letter which Elsie held in her hand, caught the recoiling gesture which she instinctively made, then for an instant they both stood still, staring at each other.
Elsie made a gesture of playful menace and carried Tom off into the drawing-room, quite regardless of the fact that Elizabeth had, as yet, found hardly an opportunity of speaking to him.
He held out his hand with a smile, but she turned away with a gesture of abhorrence which had no effect upon him save that it deepened the smile to an ugly sneer.
Elizabeth dropped her hands into her lap with a gesture full of weariness and desolation; as they fell apart she lifted them up to Elsie, with a look of helpless distress.
She lifted both hands with a strange gesture of misery and humiliation, which he could not have understood.
As if one could eat--" A warning gesture from Elizabeth checked her.
It is hard to make Western men, and especially old-timers, talk.
He then made a strangegesture with his hand towards my face, and I suddenly perceived I was under a spell.
She did not seem to recognise me, but at the warning gesture I made, a faint flush came into her cheek.
He rose and stood looking at her irresolutely, and then, with a gesture of acquiescence, abruptly turned away.
As he looked up, Walthew made a warning gesture and Gomez heard footsteps outside.
Father Agustin made a deprecatory gesture as his thin, long-nailed hand moved across the board, and Grahame smiled.
Grahame turned to the captain with a gesture of weariness.
The light of her divinity burned brighter round the figure of the goddess, and she made a slight gesture for the man to walk beside her.
Whether by instinct, intuition, or divine Providence, the girl understood what he said; but her quick answer was unintelligible to him, and he had only her gesture to go by.
This done, Beltani, with a gesture of good-night to the stranger, retreated into her bedroom, with Baba on the one side of her and Ramua on the other.
With a little gesture of bewilderment she turned to the Greek at her side.
Cyrus made a gesture that the young men dared not disobey, and, however much against their wills, they quickly left the tent.
One gesture she made--lifted both arms to them in pitiable pleading.
Turning slightly, she dismissed the priests, who, remembering her commands, accepted the gesture and departed from her reluctantly.
Bardiya drew himself together with a little gesture of disgust, and his brother's features broadened with a grin.
Charmides held up his hand with such an imploring gesture that a sudden light broke in upon the trader.
Baba raised her eyes and made a sidelong gesture towards the door of the other room.
Wines of Lebanon and Helbon were brought from the cellars, and Belshazzar was waved into his place with a gesture that admitted of no refusal.
Continually Beltani brought and held to her lips the refreshment that she craved, as often to have it thrust away with a gesture of pitiable repulsion.
He staggered backward, passed his hand swiftly across his forehead, recovered himself with a gesture of mingled rage and despair, and, sinking on his knees beside the door, pressed his hot temples against the crack.
Lance let his grasp slip from her thin wrist to her hand, and then with a good-humored gesturetossed it lightly back to her.
Once she brushed an imaginary fleck of lint from the lap of her blue serge skirt--brushed, and brushed and brushed, with a mechanical, pathetic little gesture that showed how completely absent her mind was from the room in which she sat.
She was in the likeness of a young girl, and with collected gesture fastened her cloak.
From this position, the head looks down upon a small figure below, who raises his hand in a gestureof adoration more intelligible to the pagan of that date than to us.
He spoke without visible notes; his only gesture a slight lifting of both hands, with a fluttering, outward movement.
My bedroom," she answered simply, and with a gesture full of dignity she threw open the door.
Once he lifted his hands as though to loose it; then with a wild gesture let them fall again.
Mr. Gladstone's gesture is varied, but not violent.
He made a gesture of despair, and from under the two saddles Jose tried to make one of hopeless horror.
There he again stood motionless, his mouth just agape and the same stupid glance in his eyes, when all at once he made a gesture of fright and looked wildly about him.
Whereupon the assassin began to gesture extravagantly, and take oath by strange gods.
He stood like a dark statue of vengeance upon his pedestal and thrust out the basket to the children with a gesture that was full of scorn for their hollow happiness, for their insecure and temporary joy.
His three companions made the introductory gesture of eloquent speech, but the young man at the door forestalled them.
He grinned affably, and made a gestureof dismissal.
Finally a nursery maid ceased conversation and, turning, made a gesture of annoyance.
At last the man, with a gesture that was singularly impressive, threw the dice.
Stimson made a gesture of acquiescence, rage, despair.
When it comes to the tag, the actor to whose lot the final lines fall either stops with a gesture or perhaps he purloins Hamlet's last words--"The rest is silence.
He nodded and raised his shoulders with a gesture which was half deploring, half deprecating.
The brutal look which goes with the gesture disgusts us, and we turn happily to something more pleasant.
The good-natured, careless look and gesture he threw the bystanders accorded well with the speech.
His shoulders drooped and he spread his hands in a gesture of resignation.
Another of the Rulans, it was, repeating the gesture of the youth who had been killed on the roof.
So saying, with a gesture expressive of a determined purpose to pass on, Mr. Cargill had no alternative but to make way, and suffer him to proceed.
Not a word did he speak, not a gesture did he make, but sat, with his black eyes actually piercing me.
I 've got my character," the old fellow said, making a gesture with a skinny hand towards his chest, as if it were there he kept his character.
The nervous gesture escaping Ferrand at this juncture betrayed how far the most independent thinkers are dependent when they have no money in their pockets.
Well," he made a little gesture with his handsome hand, which struck her as being not quite so clean as usual.
Mrs. Wood said nothing; with her hand in suspended gesture and her spectacles a-glimmer with round surprise, she sat looking at Miss Maggie.
The gesture exasperated Sally, and she turned on her sister.
Then he thought of her from the first moment to the last, reviewed her every gesture and movement of face and hand.
It appeared that Minglapo was interested in the same point that the General had just expressed, for presently he made a gesture to bring the servant down to his level.
The boy made an eloquent gesture to betoken an open grave, supplementing the picture which Romney felt mentally, with: "One-eye gone way down.
There they placed the body upon the sand, accepted a cold claw and a gesture to return to Nadiram.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gesture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
