Delsartean

Mme. Lillian made an apt quotation which terminated with a Delsartean gesture and a rising inflection that seemed to exact something from somebody; the comedienne struck one of her property attitudes, so irresistibly comic that every one applauded, and Mme. Lillian laughed herself to tears; then they all drifted toward the door.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

Patrick, his face and hands daubed with ink, was executing a triumphant war-dance around Isaac, who, livid and inarticulate with rage, was alternately struggling for words and making wondrous Delsartean attempts to see his outraged back.

Little Citizens Myra Kelly 1893

As there was no seat, we flattened ourselves out on the clean hay, and practiced Delsartean attitudes of languor.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Often when she had been busy with her physical - culture exercises and Delsartean movements on the horizontal bars or the trapeze in the centre of her big cage, I tested her by quietly joining the crowd of visitors in the centre of the room before her cage, and saying to her: "Polly!

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895