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There are others, again,
whose hands are sluggish or tremulous or inclined to
saw the air; sometimes, too, the fingers are crooked
and brought down with a run from the top of the
head, or tossed up into the air with the hand turned
palm upwards. There is also a gesture, which consists in inclining the head to the right shoulder,
stretching out the arm from the ear and extending
the hand with the thumb turned down. This is a
special favourite with those who boast that they
speak “with uplifted hand.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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