shake one’s fists

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He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down.

Stand and the scene around us was indescribable as the staid more English than the English burghers of Adelaide and their wives stood up booing and shaking their fists. It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot.

People came out of the theatre and were shaking their fists at us, said Ken. One woman went up to Codron and Peter Wood and said just one short crisp sentence.

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