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She was very warmly greeted, and went through all the gestures of the part; played it, in short, pantomimically.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

They repeated their dance and then knocked at the door of the nearest house and begged pantomimically for money, but as it was washing day they were refused.

From The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair

No, I cry your pardon, I was forgetting the spectacles—a pantomimically large pair of azure barnacles, which came in partly to temper what was rather too fierce in the bearing of our hero.

From Tartarin of Tarascon by Daudet, Alphonse

The officer takes my passport to the yamen, and ere leaving the room, pantomimically advises me to go to sleep again.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

His feelings towards me he likewise showed us pantomimically, by procuring me a post of canoness, the income of which I very soon began to draw.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von