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  • "I understand," said Monte Cristo, well acquainted with Ali's pantomime; "you mean to tell me that three female attendants await their new mistress in her sleeping-chamber."   (source)
    pantomime = communication through gestures and body movements (without words)
  • He pantomimed death, clutching his hands around his own neck, letting his tongue hang out of his mouth, and lolling his head to the side.†   (source)
  • He killed himself on the battlefield at Kumamoto—killed himself with his own sword, seppukku"—Kabuo pantomimed disemboweling himself, the imaginary sword plunged deep into his left side and drawn steadily to the right.†   (source)
  • She raised a fluttering hand to her brow and staggered back, pantomiming horror.†   (source)
  • Piper tried to keep a calm expression, even when she noticed Drew in the back row, pantomiming a faint, and her friends giggling.†   (source)
  • I looked back toward my twin and she nodded at me and pantomimed a big breath, and I remembered to breathe.†   (source)
  • Anatole peers from side to side, pantomiming Portuguese astonishment.†   (source)
  • "We thought America would be like this," Alex said, pantomiming a magician with a wand and flicking it at the table to conjure something out of the ether.†   (source)
  • "I'm not sure what I want, except that I know I don't want anyone to find out about Loren and me:' "My lips are sealed:' Stevie Rae, little Okie dork that she is, pantomimed zipping her lips closed and throwing the key away over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • And he pantomimed putting on a cocked hat and strutted in the middle of the floor.†   (source)
  • John Miller pantomimed stabbing himself in the heart.†   (source)
  • He dances with RUTH some more and starts to laugh and stops and pantomimes someone over an operating table) I can just see that chick someday looking down at some poor cat on an operating table and before she starts to slice him, she says ....(Pulling his sleeves back maliciously) "By the way, what are your views on civil rights down there?†   (source)
  • She crept behind Mum Olga and pantomimed dumping a pail of water over her head.†   (source)
  • He pantomimed pulling a gun out of a shoulder holster and pointed it at her.†   (source)
  • The girl pantomimed her method with her large hands.†   (source)
  • THE AFTERNOON IS A FINE ONE, AND THE GROUNDS AND gardens of Spence are blooming with girls—on bicycles, playing pantomimes, strolling, gossiping.†   (source)
  • While Mum leapt to and fro, pantomiming fictitious exploits, Sarah and Connor pulled up chairs.†   (source)
  • As it had been the day before, the property was already crowded with vehicles, and my friend Nathan Little waved to me from across the yard, pantomiming that he'd join me in a few minutes.†   (source)
  • A man in his sixties walking in slow motion around the party, pantomiming with people, pretending to grab the breasts of the cleavage woman.†   (source)
  • Abruptly the pantomiming came to an end.†   (source)
  • You must have seen it in her pantomimes, you spoke of her rare gift for comedy on the stage that rouses a laughter out of the audience so dear they applaud and applaud and do not want to let her go.†   (source)
  • He pantomimed all sorts of chaos with his hands.†   (source)
  • Can only be entered ...He pantomimed free-falling.†   (source)
  • She pointed to herself, then Bella, and pantomimed a s' aying movement.†   (source)
  • "Then I—" She pantomimed slicing his jugular.†   (source)
  • He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it.†   (source)
  • Go was now pantomiming dick-slapping my wife.†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae pantomimed zipping her lips shut and throwing away the key.†   (source)
  • He laughed and pantomimed gutting an enemy while Frank listened, his expression polite but queasy.†   (source)
  • Felicity pantomimes a wild-eyed soothsayer.†   (source)
  • He raised his eyebrows at me, then pantomimed holding a joint between two fingers.†   (source)
  • The giants pantomimed their lives together.†   (source)
  • "I'm waiting for my cousin," Bella said, pantomiming her hand over her brow, looking around searchingly.†   (source)
  • They loved to point Adah out when they saw us, pantomiming a lion's roar, which didn't help us to put the affair behind us.†   (source)
  • She pantomimed cozying up to an invisible man, gazing up adoringly at the invisible man's face, fluttering her eyelashes.†   (source)
  • He pantomimed a dwarf melting in terror, which for some reason the Italian didn't seem to understand.†   (source)
  • Loki pantomimed wild applause.†   (source)
  • Round and round the fire he strutted, pantomimed, and pranced; then he screwed up his mouth and burst into shrill, raucous singing.†   (source)
  • But this pantomimed greeting did not make Hans Castorp feel any better.†   (source)
  • 'This is Mr Lenville, who does our first tragedy, Mr Johnson,' said the pantomimist.†   (source)
  • The grace of his movement was singular: it was the pantomimic expression of a lady-killing career.†   (source)
  • Before he could open it, Mr Folair, the pantomimist, thrust in his head.†   (source)
  • Men were putting their heads together in twos and threes, telling good stories, with pantomimic laughter which reached convulsive grimace.†   (source)
  • As he said it, Master Bates caught up an end of his neckerchief; and, holding it erect in the air, dropped his head on his shoulder, and jerked a curious sound through his teeth; thereby indicating, by a lively pantomimic representation, that scragging and hanging were one and the same thing.†   (source)
  • Phoebe threw down a whole handful of cents, which he picked up with joyless eagerness, handed them over to the Italian for safekeeping, and immediately recommenced a series of pantomimic petitions for more.†   (source)
  • Mealy's father was a waterman, who had the additional distinction of being a fireman, and was engaged as such at one of the large theatres; where some young relation of Mealy's — I think his little sister — did Imps in the Pantomimes.†   (source)
  • Possibly some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement,—however serious, however trifling,—all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass.†   (source)
  • From every street and every corner drove carriages filled with clowns, harlequins, dominoes, mummers, pantomimists, Transteverins, knights, and peasants, screaming, fighting, gesticulating, throwing eggs filled with flour, confetti, nosegays, attacking, with their sarcasms and their missiles, friends and foes, companions and strangers, indiscriminately, and no one took offence, or did anything but laugh.†   (source)
  • Nicholas was up betimes in the morning; but he had scarcely begun to dress, notwithstanding, when he heard footsteps ascending the stairs, and was presently saluted by the voices of Mr Folair the pantomimist, and Mr Lenville, the tragedian.†   (source)
  • It was not worth his while to be serious with him, however, so he dismissed the pantomimist, with a gentle hint that if he offended again it would be under the penalty of a broken head; and Mr Folair, taking the caution in exceedingly good part, walked away to confer with his principal, and give such an account of his proceedings as he might think best calculated to carry on the joke.†   (source)
  • Such was, and in such an attitude sat Miss Snevellicci's papa, who had been in the profession ever since he had first played the ten-year-old imps in the Christmas pantomimes; who could sing a little, dance a little, fence a little, act a little, and do everything a little, but not much; who had been sometimes in the ballet, and sometimes in the chorus, at every theatre in London; who was always selected in virtue of his figure to play the military visitors and the speechless noblemen; who always wore a smart dress†   (source)
  • I bowed, smiling, and Murtagh in turn pantomimed the handing across of money for information received.†   (source)
  • But ...and here the leader, the purple-shirted young man who had welcomed us, pantomimed the sending of a messenger, should they happen across the man we sought.†   (source)
  • The jarvey joins in the mute pantomimic merriment nodding from the farther seat.†   (source)
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  • Edgar stopped washing Tinder's paw long enough to pantomime spiking the flat of one hand on two fingers of another.†   (source)
  • I would pantomime putting the hat on my head and work on just the right bland lines for the press: "Our team works hard in practice, and it pays off in the games."†   (source)
  • If more is said that Marie-Laure cannot overhear—if there is a pantomime going on between them, notes passed, stratagems agreed upon—she cannot say.†   (source)
  • Stargirl's pantomime remains the best I have ever seen.†   (source)
  • Like Mr. Heck Tate, I imagined a person facing me, went through a swift mental pantomime, and concluded that he might have held her with his right hand and pounded her with his left.†   (source)
  • We'll just have to get rid of them — you go in front, I'll do it — " Harry did not want to enter the village like a pantomime horse, trying to keep themselves concealed while magically covering their traces.†   (source)
  • They had in fact seen a matinee pantomime at the London Pavilion during which Lola had spilled a strawberry drink down her frock, and Liberty's was right across the street.†   (source)
  • Chix Verbil's pantomime antics provided the perfect cover for a spot of pilfering.†   (source)
  • Rain, rain —" He shivered, pulled his collar closer in pantomime and glanced at the sky.†   (source)
  • But Chava did not run, could not run; he stood alone in the back yard as the legion of shadows approached, yelling back, shadows which surrounded their prey and pounced in a deadly pantomime, steel blades penetrating flesh.†   (source)
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  • He had always smiled at me before, an over-sad pantomime smile, with mockery in his eyes.†   (source)
  • He acted it out in a pantomime that made Ruth May laugh fiercely.†   (source)
  • By question 11 —"I am terrible at pantomime, as in games like charades" — he was laughing out loud.†   (source)
  • His face went though a slow-motion pantomime of sorrow.†   (source)
  • I pantomime excellent health, existential angst, regret, and an enormous sense of loss, all via a single nod.†   (source)
  • For such persons, being a butler is like playing some pantomime role; a small push, a slight stumble, and the facade will drop off to reveal the actor underneath.†   (source)
  • Will fell after and they both stood, clamorous with alarms, shaken by concussions of silent pantomime, blasted by events all the more numbing because they ran off into the night unknown.†   (source)
  • Did the pantomime help?†   (source)
  • A man with a round red face and a bald pate whose curly fringe of grizzled, reddish hair made him look like a clown in a pantomime, motioned them with a surly thumb toward the back of the house, where clattering preparations for supper were audible and odoriferous.†   (source)
  • You should—" He waved, doing some weird hand signal that I couldn't interpret, pantomime in retreat.†   (source)
  • On the floor the guests were doing the twist with all the articulated pantomime of the unfrozen dead come back for a day.†   (source)
  • She made me do six months of pantomime.†   (source)
  • Fire, cook, eat, good, bad (good was a mime of eating followed by a big smile, bad was Daphne's unladylike but realistic pantomime of throwing up).†   (source)
  • The high-backed chair in front of the fire moved suddenly and there rose up out of it — like a pantomime demon coming up out of a trapdoor the alarming form of Uncle Andrew.†   (source)
  • This pantomime continued for twenty minutes before he turned and with rapid steps walked to the hotel's beach entrance and vanished.†   (source)
  • A terrible sense of loneliness came over me; they seemed to enact a mysterious pantomime.†   (source)
  • Before us, like the image in a pantomime, is a land newly born.†   (source)
  • In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.†   (source)
  • Alessandro asked in soundless pantomime, pointing to his chest with his thumb.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Worse than the pantomime.†   (source)
  • Last was the Moon Dance, performed in pantomime by two men, the Full Moon and the Half Moon.†   (source)
  • Even their warfare was a weary pantomime.†   (source)
  • I indicated by pantomime that I wanted to, and he wrote on his slate: GO AHEAD SEE WHAT YOU REMEMB.†   (source)
  • My sense of making fictional comedy undoubtedly caught its first spark from the antic pantomime of the silent screen, and from having a kindred soul to laugh with.†   (source)
  • Inside, the lights have been gradually coming up on the main room, where we see the family informally gathered, talking, but in pantomime; KATE sits darning socks near a cradle, occasionally rocking it; CAPTAIN KELLER in spectacles is working over newspaper pages at a table; a benign visitor in a hat, AUNT EV, is sharing the sewing basket, putting the finishing touches on a big shapeless doll made out of towels; an indolent young man, JAMES KELLER, is at the window watching the children.†   (source)
  • He could almost have believed that it was the very perfection of the magician's pantomime that made the chair rise.†   (source)
  • It was a piece of pantomime.†   (source)
  • Thoroughly pleased with himself Peter repeated the performance, this time adding a touch of pantomime, staggering backward as if he'd been struck.†   (source)
  • She made a pantomime with both hands of something falling.†   (source)
  • Why had his pantomime of feeding Cujo, and those rapid, sighing words, frightened her so much?†   (source)
  • I pantomime my complete and utter lack of jealousy.†   (source)
  • Everything I see is like a pantomime shadow made upon a wall.†   (source)
  • I acted out a pantomime more eloquent than my most expressive words.†   (source)
  • He became utterly lost in his battle; the pantomime became reality.†   (source)
  • She snapped a needle from a cactus and with the slapstick pantomime of a circus clown pretended to pick her teeth with it.†   (source)
  • So then, since no one was around to watch us and Nelson seems incapable of embarrassment, I brought forth a shameless pantomime of a mother giving birth to one baby, then—oh my!†   (source)
  • You can only pantomime so much.†   (source)
  • According to quite a good pantomime from Cahle, you could make a so-so soup of it, or wash your hair in its juice, but mostly you used it as string or made clothes and bags out of it.†   (source)
  • Both boys felt a shadow bulk the drive between their houses, both flung up their windows, both poked their heads out, both dropped their jaws in surprise at this friendly, this always exquisite timing, this delightful pantomime of intuition, of apprehension, their tandem teamwork over the years.†   (source)
  • As Rafi tried to explain to the stunned railwaymen, in pantomime, that he was Jewish and didn't eat ham (the first part of the pantomime was to convey that he was circumcised) Alessandro grabbed him by the shoulder.†   (source)
  • A butler of any quality must be seen to /inhabit /his role, utterly and fully; he cannot be seen casting it aside one moment simply to don it again the next as though it were nothing more than a pantomime costume.†   (source)
  • Then a lopsided smile spread across her face as she looked down at Mikael Blomkvist, who for half a minute acted out a jerky pantomime before he finally punched in the code and then leaned on the doorjamb looking as though he had just avoided having a heart attack.†   (source)
  • While the mothers talk, we sip our tea silently, our smiles mirroring theirs as if we are players in a pantomime.†   (source)
  • Cahle was good at pantomime.†   (source)
  • And right now it was a gift of pictures twitched in pantomime, as Mr Dark made his illustrious jerk coldskinned over his warm-pulsed wrist as the stars came out above and, Jim stared and Will could not see and a long way off the last of the town people went away toward town in their warm cars, and Jim said, faintly, 'Gosh....' and Mr Dark rolled down his sleeve.†   (source)
  • The wheels of wagons and carriages, the ladies and gentlemen, the liniment vendor hawking his miracle cure—they are like dreamy figures in a pantomime.†   (source)
  • Breezes touched the yellow and violet of dresses and stirred them, horses pawed the ground, and the people pressed upon him and seemed more real than those in dreams, and yet their pantomime was like those choruses and companies whose movements are like the waves running together.†   (source)
  • Then, all alone, Cornelia would turn and gaze away down the street, as if she could see far, far away, in a little pantomime of hope and apprehension that would not permit Josie to stir.†   (source)
  • JAMES stalks out, much offended, and KATE turning stares across the yard at the house; the lights narrowing down to the following pantomime in the family room leave her motionless in the dark†   (source)
  • Then, as the pantomime grew even livelier, even more grotesque, their amusement turned to unrestrained delight.†   (source)
  • He had no emu feathers in his hair, no moistened ochre streaking his face and chest; but he snatched up a stem of yacca-yacca for spear and a splinter of ironbark for club, and jabbing, dodging, feinting and parrying he fought his pantomime self to exhaustion.†   (source)
  • But it was long ago that such pantomime was familiar to me.†   (source)
  • Wilcox had brought out for the occasion the gold plate, which I had not before seen in use; that, the gilt mirrors, and the lacquer and the drapery of the great bed and Julia's mandarin coat gave the scene an air of pantomime, of Aladdin's cave.†   (source)
  • Its ideals are not those of the hieratic pantomime, making visible on earth the forms of heaven, but of the secular state, in hard and unremitting competition for material supremacy and resources.†   (source)
  • It was mostly in pantomime.†   (source)
  • He drags a second plank into position and slants the two of them into their final juxtaposition, gesturing toward the ones yet on the ground, shaping with his empty hand in pantomime the finished box.†   (source)
  • Man's— life is a cheat and a disappointment; All things are unreal, Unreal or disappointing: The Catherine wheel, the pantomime cat, The prizes given at the children's party, The prize awarded for the English Essay, The scholar's degree, the statesman's decora tion.†   (source)
  • He kept seeing her in the darkness as he rode on, her face in the fire-light, and her terrible pantomime.†   (source)
  • Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor dopes, they're off again!†   (source)
  • palace; Sebastian in his wheel-chair spinning down the box-edged walks of the kitchen gardens in search of alpine strawberries and warm figs, propelling himself through the succession of hot-houses, from scent to scent and climate to climate, to cut the muscat grapes and choose orchids for our button-holes; Sebastian hobbling with a pantomime of difficulty to the old nurseries, sitting beside me on the threadbare, flowered carpet with the toy-cupboard empty about us and Nanny Hawkins stitching complacently in the corner, saying, "You're one as bad as the other; a pair of children the two of you.†   (source)
  • Whereupon the great field of instructive wonder shifted—to the skies—and mankind enacted the great pantomime of the sacred moon-king, the sacred sun-king, the hieratic, planetary state, and the symbolic festivals of the world-regulating spheres.†   (source)
  • For example, if Harry, as man, had a beautiful thought, felt a fine and noble emotion, or performed a so-called good act, then the wolf bared his teeth at him and laughed and showed him with bitter scorn how laughable this whole pantomime was in the eyes of a beast, of a wolf who knew well enough in his heart what suited him, namely, to trot alone over the Steppes and now and then to gorge himself with blood or to pursue a female wolf.†   (source)
  • The universal triumph of the secular state has thrown all religious organizations into such a definitely secondary, and finally ineffectual, position that religious pantomime is hardly more today than a sanctimonious exercise for Sunday morning, whereas business ethics and patriotism stand for the remainder of the week.†   (source)
  • This soft, ghostly pantomime was extremely entertaining.†   (source)
  • A burst of childish laughter greets my blunder, and the pantomime begins all over again.†   (source)
  • The old lady chuckled, crumpled her lids, and went through the pantomime of archness.†   (source)
  • Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime.†   (source)
  • England was a revelation to her, and she found herself as diverted as a child at a pantomime.†   (source)
  • Mr Folair made a funny face from his pantomime collection, and pointed over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • All that Grimaud gained by this momentary pantomime was to pass from the rear guard to the vanguard.†   (source)
  • A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage.†   (source)
  • 'The talent of the other three is principally in combat and serious pantomime.†   (source)
  • A poster of a woman in tights heralded the Christmas pantomime, and little red devils, who had come in again that year, were prevalent upon the Christmas-cards.†   (source)
  • There it was, what he wanted—tangibly before him, like the fairy world of a Christmas pantomime—but mocking spirits stood guard at the doors, and, as the rain beat in his face, Paul wondered whether he were destined always to shiver in the black night outside, looking up at it.†   (source)
  • Her pantomime of his action suggests a man pursuing something on the ground before him and striking at it ever and again with his walking-stick.†   (source)
  • —In a pantomime, love.†   (source)
  • She handled their crops, and knew what they had eaten, and if too little or too much; her face enacting a vivid pantomime of the criticisms passing in her mind.†   (source)
  • Eliza smiles for the first time; expresses her feelings by a wild pantomime in which an imitation of Higgins's exit is confused with her own triumph; and finally goes down on her knees on the hearthrug to look for the ring.†   (source)
  • Then he quietly took Sir Andrew's hat from a chair close by, put it on his own head, tugged at his dirty blouse, and generally tried to express in pantomime that the individual in question wore very fine clothes.†   (source)
  • He tapped his forehead with a distressful forefinger, to convey his opinion that the widow Jules Giry was most certainly mad, a piece of pantomime which confirmed M. Richard in his determination to get rid of an inspector who kept a lunatic in his service.†   (source)
  • It was too far to hear a word, but I had no doubt that this pantomime could only refer to the strange new captain.†   (source)
  • By this time they had passed beyond Frome's earshot and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes as they continued to move along the crest of the slope above him.†   (source)
  • I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's.†   (source)
  • To gratify you, I have resorted to the trick of the strolling theatrical manager who advertizes the pantomime of Sinbad the Sailor with a stock of second-hand picture posters designed for Ali Baba.†   (source)
  • To meet her starry-eyed confidence he mustered an insincere pantomime implying, "You would turn up here—of all the people in the world."†   (source)
  • He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, and was mortified to find her shrugs and smiles so unintelligible.†   (source)
  • And when two constabulary men had come into sight round a bend in the gloomy road he had broken off his prayer to whistle loudly an air from the last pantomime.†   (source)
  • It was, rather, that all these effects could be traced to the influence of one masterful nature among those present, to the "personality" among them, to Mynheer Peeperkorn, who held the reins in his grandly gesticulating hands and bound them all to the spell of the hour with the drama of his countenance, with pale eyes gazing out from under the monumental creases of his brow, with words and compelling pantomime.†   (source)
  • He dragged one chair—this was for Frau Chauchat, almost a reclining throne, with a high, wooden-frame back and plush upholstery—over to the spot he had indicated in his pantomime, and for himself he selected a crackling, creaking wicker chair with scrolled armrests, on which he now sat down beside her, bending forward, his arms on the scrolls, her pencil in his hand, his feet well hidden under his chair.†   (source)
  • Tom gave the requisite pantomime to indicate the double enjoyment of pulling the trigger and thrusting the spear.†   (source)
  • Farmer Boldwood had read the pantomime denoting that they were aware of his presence, and the perception was as too much light turned upon his new sensibility.†   (source)
  • This was the drumming noise which had alarmed us, increased, as I imagine, by the wing strokes falling at times on the decayed and hollow stump on which the curious pantomime was acted.†   (source)
  • "My business here was principally with the Quartermaster," Cap continued, as soon as he had done regarding the prisoner's pantomime.†   (source)
  • The three syllables of this charade were to be depicted in pantomime, and the performance took place in the following wise: First syllable.†   (source)
  • It was Covent Garden Theatre that I chose; and there, from the back of a centre box, I saw Julius Caesar and the new Pantomime.†   (source)
  • A young woman stumbled over a bit last night, and fell against my garden-railings; directly she got up I saw her look towards his infernal red lamp with the pantomime-light.†   (source)
  • The second piece was the last new grand comic Christmas pantomime, in the first scene of which, it pained me to suspect that I detected Mr. Wopsle with red worsted legs under a highly magnified phosphoric countenance and a shock of red curtain-fringe for his hair, engaged in the manufacture of thunderbolts in a mine, and displaying great cowardice when his gigantic master came home (very hoarse) to dinner.†   (source)
  • He was then bound and fastened to the body of the sapling, on whose branches Magua had acted the pantomime of the falling Huron.†   (source)
  • Isabel sat there half an hour, and Pansy rose to the occasion as the small, winged fairy in the pantomime soars by the aid of the dissimulated wire—not chattering, but conversing, and showing the same respectful interest in Isabel's affairs that Isabel was so good as to take in hers.†   (source)
  • The only intelligible meaning in this sky-backed pantomime of silhouettes was that the woman had no relation to the forms who had taken her place, was sedulously avoiding these, and had come thither for another object than theirs.†   (source)
  • A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.†   (source)
  • He understood this pantomime.†   (source)
  • Bathsheba, who had seen this pantomime with some surprise, experienced great relief when Boldwood turned back again.†   (source)
  • It was not an easy task to arrive at this information; but, after a great quantity of extraordinary pantomime, which in no way assisted it, Nicholas, who was almost as wild as Newman Noggs himself, forced the latter down upon his seat and held him down until he began his tale.†   (source)
  • 'No matter how you came, so that you are here,' said Mrs Wititterly, who, by dint of lying on the same sofa for three years and a half, had got up quite a little pantomime of graceful attitudes, and now threw herself into the most striking of the whole series, to astonish the visitors.†   (source)
  • Arthur Gride in reply repeated the word 'bell' as loud as he could roar; and, his meaning being rendered further intelligible to Mrs Sliderskew's dull sense of hearing by pantomime expressive of ringing at a street-door, Peg hobbled out, after sharply demanding why he hadn't said there was a ring before, instead of talking about all manner of things that had nothing to do with it, and keeping her half-pint of beer waiting on the steps.†   (source)
  • Newman opened his eyes rather wider than usual, but merely replied by a gasp, which, according to the action of the head that accompanied it, was interpreted by his friends as meaning yes or no. In the present instance, the pantomime consisted of a nod, and not a shake; so Nicholas took the answer as a favourable one.†   (source)
  • There were also an elderly lady from the back-parlour, and one more young lady, who, next to the collector, perhaps was the great lion of the party, being the daughter of a theatrical fireman, who 'went on' in the pantomime, and had the greatest turn for the stage that was ever known, being able to sing and recite in a manner that brought the tears into Mrs Kenwigs's eyes.†   (source)
  • All the people cast soft pantomime stones at Bloom†   (source)
  • She heard old Royce sing in the pantomime of Turko the Terrible and laughed with others when he sang: I am the boy That can enjoy Invisibility.†   (source)
  • past, or fixtures for the actual, years, entitled If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now, commissioned by Michael Gunn, lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street, and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the valley of diamonds, of the second edition (30 January 1893) of the grand annual Christmas pantomime Sinbad the Sailor (produced by R Shelton 26 December 1892, written by Greenleaf Whittier, scenery by George A. Jackson and Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and Miss Whelan under the personal supervision of Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by Jessie Noir, harlequinade by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist, principal girl?†   (source)
  • ELLEN BLOOM: (In pantomime dame's stringed mobcap, widow Twankey's crinoline and bustle, blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind, grey mittens and cameo brooch, her plaited hair in a crispine net, appears over the staircase banisters, a slanted candlestick in her hand, and cries out in shrill alarm) O blessed Redeemer, what have they done to him!†   (source)
  • I mean here the inventor of that most exquisite entertainment, called the English Pantomime.†   (source)
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