noddings

I can still recall my noddings, my fleeting unconsciousness, when the fan would come to a standstill in my hand, and I woke up with a start and a hideous shock.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

I can still recall my noddings, my fleeting unconsciousness, when the fan would come to a standstill in my hand, and I woke up with a start and a hideous shock.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

I can still recall my noddings, my fleeting unconsciousness, when the fan would come to a standstill in my hand, and I woke up with a start and a hideous shock.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

All of which did not explain Ismail's whisperings and noddings and chin strokings with King's contingent.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

It makes us world-weary and knowing -- but we are dealt into a vast postcard called New York and in this sea of intricately woven cuss-words and iPod noddings and shoulder-bumpings, how would we pause?

Reverend Billy: Sad I Ran 2009

And in the first, she askt no questions; but did be quiet and but to show with little noddings that she did be greatly interest.

The Night Land 2007

It was a brief meeting filled with several noddings of the head, failed sexual innuendos and the agreement that Mattie would return on Saturday night to take over the DJ booth.

unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2005

But the farmer heard it all, and kept interrupting so, when his noddings and the joggings of his pipe allowed, or, perhaps one should say, compelled him, that merely for the courtesy of saving common time it is better now to set it down without them.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

What remark of his would ever reach these fabulous and fantastic characters? — for there was something fantastically unreal in the curious swayings and noddings of Mrs. Cosham, as if her equipment included a large wire spring.

Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

I looked at the Mistress, whose sullen immobility seemed to be protesting against the noddings — in time with the music — of the empty heads of the ladies of the Faubourg.

The Captive 2003