He paused with a gesture of deprecation.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Nevis did not comply, and though he made a gesture of deprecation the look in his eyes warned her that he meant to let her feel his power.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
When a very young man he did not hesitate to express his deprecation of the conventional and artificial methods of medical instruction in his own time, and he anticipated what is best in the methods that have gradually come into vogue at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh