He emerged his head out of his shell, made a few odd grimaces and gesticulations, before he could get his muscles into order, or his voice under command, and then offered to give some account of a mysterious personage that he had recently encountered in the course of his travels, and one whom he thought fully entitled to being classed with the Man with the Iron Mask.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
And those who continue to worship with various robes, and prescribed gesticulations and movements, and pictures, and altars, and everything to impress the senses, write themselves down children among grown-up people.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Thankful was I, indeed, to see them; for the pirates had of late been thronging around me with gesticulations which filled me with uneasiness.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot