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In the stern, waving a handkerchief, I recognized Mrs. Cooke, and beside her a figure in black, gesticulating frantically, a vision of coat-tails flapping in the breeze. Then the yacht heeled on her course and forged lakewards. "Row, Mr. Crocker, row! they are leaving us!" cried Miss Trevor, in alarm. I hastened to reassure her. "Farrar is probably trying something," I said.
They looked like the ghostly arms of shrunken and withered giants, beckoning Robert to his uncle's house. They looked like threatening phantoms in the chill winter twilight, gesticulating to him to hasten upon his journey.
His countenance became intolerably fervid, as he oratorically assured me gesticulating with a long ruler at the other end of the room that if his services in the morning were useful, how indispensable, then, in the afternoon? "With submission, sir," said Turkey, on this occasion, "I consider myself your right-hand man.
Flower did not even pretend to hear Polly's words she walked straight on, gesticulating a little now and then, now and then raising her hand in a slightly dramatic manner. Her clear voice floated back to Polly as she walked forward, the center of an eager, worshipping, entranced audience.
As he read and interpreted the text he would wave his snuff-box, by way of punctuating and emphasizing his words, much as the conductor of an orchestra does his baton, now gently, insinuatingly, now with a passionate jerk, now with a sweeping majestic movement. One cannot read Talmud without gesticulating, and Reb Sender would scarcely have been able to gesticulate without his snuff-box.
The explosion brought the whole crew out of their shanty, in a state of gesticulating nature, and, as Charlie, growling like a bear, was helping to bring first aid, suddenly our young friend Jack whose romantic youth preferred sleeping outside in a hammock slung between two palm trees put him aside. "I know better how to do this than you, Sir Francis," he said, laughing.
Two more were selected, despite the protests of Captain Parson, who was raging like a madman, and hurried aboard the frigate. The fourth man halted in the procession was Job, the colored cook. "Stop, sir, I want you!" said the English officer. "Want me, Capen? oh, golly! I ain't a Britisher!" cried Job, gesticulating wildly. "Do I look like I war a Britisher?
If it weren't for those two hours you grant me in the evening, I'd I'd blow up with a loud report, that's what. I'd " "Now, now, T. A.!" interrupted Emma McChesney soothingly, and patted one gesticulating arm. "It has been a bit of a strain for both of us. But, you know, we agreed it would be best this way. We've ten days more to go. Let's stick it out as we've begun.
The people had hitherto been quiet enough, and I had observed no signs of hostility; no sooner, however, did we approach the shore than they assumed a warlike attitude, dancing and gesticulating in the wildest manner, while they yelled and brandished their weapons as a sign to us that we were to come no nearer.
They sat for a long time, saying little save vague, unmeaning words, watching the father walk away in his happiness, gesticulating as if he were talking to himself. "What will become of him now?" Mlle. Armande asked after a while. "Du Croisier has sent instructions to the MM. Keller; he is not to be allowed to draw any more without authorization." "And there are debts," continued Mlle. Armande.
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