Examples of dumb show

• After much dumb show, arrangements were made for the night. 

• I never saw such admirable dumb show: it was better than any pantomime. 

• I returned the greetings in dumb show, and hurried on. 

• The dumb show of staring into each other's faces, squeezing fingers, and sighing, originated, we have reason to believe, with the ancient Romans. 

• This was all in dumb show.