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  • He profest himsel unco 'indebtit for the shelter accordit him; an' his een aye soucht the leddy's, an 'his admiration o' her was plain in ilka luik an 'gestur', an 'though his words were feow, they a' meant mair nor they said.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • I don't think anyone in the press can claim to know all the facts in the curious case of what sexually charged gestur...

    Herman Cain's Evolving Response To Sexual Harassment Flap The Huffington Post News Team 2011

  • Animated Gif: Spock shows a variety of hand gestur...

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Their mouths were open and they were gestur-ing emphatically.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Then, as if to illustrate in one dramatic gestur the low estate into which American governme had fallen, in rural Massachusetts a rabbl rousing countryman named Daniel Shays said h could tolerate no longer the grievous hurts he an his kind suffered at the hands of the well-to-do Seeking redress, he launched a minor revoluti against the tyranny of the local courts, the banks and most other manifestations of government.

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • "This way," said one of the other armed fairies, gestur - ing upstream.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • Kids asked to physically gesture at math problems are nearly three times more likely than non-gestur ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • AP - FILE - In this Thursday July 9, 2009 file photo, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, center, gestur

    REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio 2009

  • Brother of it was: I hope there is never a Part of it, in which thou wilt not find somthing that will please thy Fancy: But for such as profess to be of the zealousest sort of people, and make use of the gestur of casting up the whites of their eys, when they intend to tell you a notorious ly, I would not have them to study in it, by reason it speaks a great deal of truth, and will not be so suitable to their humors; because it is a bundle of matter that is scrambled together, which could not be wrapt up in such clean linnen, or drest up in such_ holding forth _Language and pious hypocrisie, as such generally make use of: It is only fit for truehearted Souls that will solace their

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • Ariakas asked, gestur-ing to the well-tended-but apparently abandoned" vista.

    Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993

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