Example Sentences

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Fearing consequences for the wretch, should any one wake, he would mercifully have motioned him off in silence; but the warning gesture was misunderstood.

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

I don't know as pa knew, anyway, but I guess he wanted something, or else he wouldn't have motioned Julius to go out, unless he just wanted to talk to Julium.

From Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent by Butler, Ellis Parker

Entering the sanctum of the Headmaster, I should have motioned him to his seat—if he were seated already, have assured him that to rise was unnecessary.

From Tales of St. Austin's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

I bowed and stepped back, motioning to the lacquey to take the fellow away, much as I should have motioned him to remove some uncleanness from before me.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

Leclerc, who was ever a fool, would have motioned to me, but Labarthe struck down his arm and gave a blank stare.

From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott