gests
- plural of gest.
Example Sentences
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His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vials of good sweet waters, and casting-bottels of glass, to besprinckel the gests withal, after their coming aborde.
From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry
True he sat at the feet of the wise men of Greece in the Gardens of Academus, but the eurythmy of their gests fascinated him more than the soberness of their doctrines.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
Gestiours: tellers of stories; reciters of brave feats or "gests."
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
With gests so stiff their lesson they repeat, You'd swear with staves their bodies were replete!
From Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
