fidgetting

She wasted no time in puerile apprehensions -- it was not her nature; she had the rare feminine virtue of never "fidgetting" -- at least, externally.

John Halifax, Gentleman

Face forward Sarah, and stop fidgetting, and remember do not speak to strangers, especially those holding microphones.

Beat 360° 9/25/08

My fidgetting lord thrust in (unsent for) his sharp face; and I chiding him for his intrusion, she slipt away, or I had designed to attend her to her cham-ber; and there, perhaps, should we have staid to — gether most part of the night.

Sir Charles Grandison

He had been fidgetting, and with natural intuition she felt a certain interest growing in that quarter.

Sister Carrie

Yesterday I was as grumpy as anything and constantly fidgetting and saying I was bored, so Neil took me to the park (hehe, I sound like a little puppy or something!) and we had a nice walk in the AIR, and it was cold and damp but WONDERFUL to be out.

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Paklin bowed very low to the governor as he came in, but catching sight of Markelov before he had time to raise himself, remained as he was, half bent down, fidgetting with his cap.

Virgin Soil

Much coffee and fidgetting later, the CSM staggered out of the double doors looking panda-like from lack of sleep no, hang on, she looks like that anyway, only this was more so.

Mysti/Misty: separated at birth? maybe not.

I don't have any taboo subjects, and pretty much everything I talk about, I can talk about it without discomfort or fidgetting about how to word it if it's personal.

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I got lost in it, even with the kids fidgetting and the babies screeching and stuff until they went out to King's Kids (Sunday school).

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Between four and five this morning he was fidgetting several times a minute!!

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