At once the crowd moved in the same direction. Aspiration was gone. A violence of children took its place, and the instinct to follow where the blazing toy led. The silence was broken. People called and gesticulated, laughed and chattered. Then the balloon caught fire from the brazier beneath it. A mass of flames shot up. A roar broke from the crowd and it pressed more fiercely onward, each unit of it longing to see where the wreck would fall.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"I think Gaspare knows his Southerner," Artois replied. "We must look for them. They are certain to have gone with the crowd."
They followed the people into the Mercato. The burning balloon dropped down and disappeared. "It has fallen into the Rettifilo!" cried a young man close to them. "Macche!" exclaimed his companion. "I will bet you five lire--"
He gesticulated furiously. "We shall never find them," Hermione said.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Thorndike turned eagerly to the judge, and saw that he was listening to a rotund, gray little man with beady, bird-like eyes who, as he talked, bowed and gesticulated. Behind him stood a younger man, a more modern edition of the other. He also bowed and, behind gold eye-glasses, smiled ingratiatingly.英文原著 · 《A Wasted Day》
As he repeated those words, Danville looked at him with a faint, cringing gratitude, stealing slowly over the blank terror of his face. He bowed his head, murmured something, and gesticulated confusedly with the hand that he was free to use.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
He had come to the surface facing down the stream; in a moment the visible world seemed to wheel slowly round, himself the pivotal point, and he saw the bridge, the fort, the soldiers upon the bridge, the captain, the sergeant, the two privates, his executioners. They were in silhouette against the blue sky. They shouted and gesticulated, pointing at him. The captain had drawn his pistol, but did not fire; the others were unarmed. Their movements were grotesque and horrible, their forms gigantic.英文原著 · 《An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge》
"It's Cherry," said Polly, lifting up her head from "Fasquelle," "and--oh, dear me!" and flinging down the pile of books in her lap on a chair, she rushed across the room and flew up to the cage and began to wildly gesticulate and explain and shower down on him every endearing name she could think of.英文原著 · 《Five Little Peppers And How They Grew》