. The Family tutor . with the thumb, the fingers being claspeddown, and the thumb extended. Grasping, The fingers andthumb seizing thegarments, or thehair. That gesture,says Quintilian,* which urges onthe words, con-tracting and open-Fig. 23. ing the hand withalternate and rapid motion, is rather ad- Fig-.

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