The old chief brandished his arms and got the floor again.

She brandished a long knife she'd found on the table.

Once inside, brandishing guns, the men told the four people they saw to get down on the floor.

He brandished a small slip of paper in the air.

Brandishing a piece of paper, they broke in the door.

He was brandishing a clean copy of the very same form.

Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife.

The boy had the woman by the arm, brandishing a knife, with his back to him.

She started to call the police, only to look up to see a young man brandishing a gun enter the room.

Just then several women burst in, brandishing their weapons again.

He still had his camera, brandished it as if he'd been drinking.

The group forced their way into his house, brandishing knives.

Moving back, peered in at me and brandished his arms.

He was followed by two of the others brandishing notebooks.

The woman stood on the box, brandishing the whip for one more try.

In his left hand he brandished a dagger on high.

The man brandishing a shotgun at his front door seemed to know the Mayor.

The report suggests that he was brandishing some sort of weapon.

She saw him brandishing a club, but the man did not complete his gesture.

"I want to see Paul," she said, brandishing the morning paper.

In response he brandished his beard at her like a club.

He is seen brandishing a gun and threatening to use it to keep order.

She looked up to find him brandishing a de- canter.

In came a man brandishing a rifle and a flashlight.

He was brandishing a stout staff, but with no authority at all.

The encounter included bats and, it was rumored, the brandishing of a gun.

Only Max's repeated brandishing of me pistol stopped him.

He said, "There was no brandishing of weapons, no kicking down of doors."

They propped him against the wall, still evidently bound fast, and there ensued a long discussion, with much brandishing of weapons.

In the wild, it confines itself mainly to unaimed throwing and the brandishing of sticks.

Their stillness was more menacing and intimidating than any wild shouting and brandishing of weapons would have been.

The first is national attention - the cobra-and-mongoose mixture of fear and fascination that comes with consistent brandishing of gun or hate.

To Cassius it seemed that this daily brandishing of arms was all the Triumvirs were doing, but he was wrong.

The new Inca accepted the throne in an elaborate ceremony with brandishing of swords and tributes in verse.

Large scale performances of the dance involved the brandishing of various weapons to the accompaniment of drums and songs in the Ba language.

Often the use of such guns is associated not with the commission of a crime but with a prank, horseplay or thoughtless brandishing in public.

The four men who had been the leaders of the gang were pushed forward from the rear amidst shouts of derision and brandishing of fists.

Among his duties was the ritual brandishing of the sacred spears of Mars when the Roman army was preparing for war.

Last year, California, in response to a wave of toy guns used in robberies, prohibited the brandishing of fake firearms in a threatening manner.

Indian troops, fearful of driving alone on the peninsula's roads, roar along in convoys, scattering local people with angry glares and the brandishing of automatic weapons.

Then he would pop back to tell a story about Bessie Smith's adolescent lover, or King Oliver's brandishing of a gun to capture band members' attention.

The noncombatants and baggage train attendants were clad in armor and made to imitate soldiers at the brandishing of arms ritual, while the soldiers toiled.

This self-labeled gimp strolled onto the Stadium Court with no limp, no wooden crutch, no brandishing of bandages.

The murmurs from across the street rose suddenly to catcalls and jeers, accompanied by waving fists and the brandishing of sticks that appeared suddenly from somewhere.

Mr. Durastanti's brandishing of the gun was a touch of drama in an otherwise staid trial in which Officer Conroy never took the stand.

She's a find in the double-duty role of young and old Ahn, a performer who can magically add and subtract years with the mere brandishing of a scarf.

There was some shock but little official protest, and no brandishing of the ceremonial four-foot mace that leaders had to send onto the floor to break up fisticuffs in earlier times.

Warrick attempts to tell Grissom of his attacker, but is deterred by McKeen's brandishing of a gun out of view of the unsuspecting Grissom.

Clan Crest: A demi-savage brandishing in his dexter a broad sword Proper and pointing with his sinister to an Imperial Crown or standing by him on the wreath.

Kyle tells the president that Cartman has duped him into pulling the episode, and despite Cartman's brandishing of a gun, Kyle implores the president not to censor the episode.