flourishings

Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance.

Chapter 30 2010

The most successful gifts reflect a sensitive consideration of the individual and come from the peculiar excesses and flourishings of the giver.

The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

What have been the flourishings, oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, 'and all other events concerning learning throughout the ages of the world'?

Youth 2009

He was both drawn to and repelled by mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, and in the 1970s it resulted in one of the greatest flourishings any artist in Cinema has yet managed.

GreenCine Daily: Robert Altman, 1925 - 2006. 2006

“Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e!” again growled the cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

His voice was faintly singsong as his eyes plucked the words out of a forest of superfluous pen-flourishings.

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

Sometimes these sheets were surrounded with elaborate flourishings of birds, pens, scrolls, etc., such as the writing-master of the last century delighted in; others were headed with copper-plate engravings, sometimes coloured.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance.

Chapter 30 1904

Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance.

The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

It was during one of these periodic flourishings of the Agence Pujol that Aristide met the Ducksmiths.

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896