headshakings

Which left the twins, and they, Mordred gathered from old Ailsa's pinched lips and headshakings, were difficult enough without the constant rubbings of jealousy and frustrated energies.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

They whispered together with depressed headshakings.

The Fortunate Youth 1914

And a few days after Dorothy had extinguished the last spark of hope he got ready to pull himself together and show the world that it was indulging too soon in its hypocritical headshakings over his ruin.

Grain of Dust. 1911

London traffic problem as we practise it in our clubs is essentially the sage turning over and over again of such fragmentary schemes, headshakings over the vacant sites about Aldwych and the Strand, brilliant petty suggestions and -- dispersal.

An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

They whispered together with depressed headshakings.

The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896

So it came to pass, that with many mysterious nods and headshakings, Matthews first hinted at and then told the story.

The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

And a few days after Dorothy had extinguished the last spark of hope he got ready to pull himself together and show the world that it was indulging too soon in its hypocritical headshakings over his ruin.

The Grain of Dust David Graham Phillips 1889

From time to time one of our rich acquaintances would disappear, his family be broken up, his wives and houses shared among the elders of the Church, and his memory only recalled with bated breath and dreadful headshakings.

The Dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

There was only one other source; and so, with many headshakings, they were preparing to believe that the Jesus whom they had all known, living His quiet life of labour among them, was in league with the devil, rather than believe that He was a messenger from God.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868