When we need a rest, our bodies sends us clear signals such as fidgetiness, hunger, drowsiness, and loss of focus. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Schwartz: The 90-Minute Solution: How Building in Periods of Renewal Can Change Your Work and Your Life (POLL) (VIDEO)] Reference
We saw a fantastic eye doctor who did well with him and his fidgetiness. From Wordnik.com. [Glasses] Reference
I wondered where this fidgetiness came from compared to when she and I were just alone. From Wordnik.com. [Two Lives] Reference
My mood became one of constant and incessant fidgetiness, nervousness, and harrowing suspense. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
There was something uncanny in her capacity for keeping still, and she had none of the usual and natural fidgetiness of a young girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
I had growing pains, trouble sleeping, fidgetiness while sitting, hand and arm pain, etc throughout childhood--but would go years without. From Wordnik.com. [Insomnia] Reference
Miss Campbell wished to save her pupils alike from that perpetual fidgetiness, which renders so many females unable to amuse themselves for. From Wordnik.com. [The Barbadoes Girl A Tale for Young People] Reference
I posted a comment on Slate, remarking on McCain's blinking, and fidgetiness and someone replied with the same meme; it's because he was a POW. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Leads By Over Five Points In Pre-Debate Tracking Polls] Reference
I notice coming up on dinner time, I actually get a surge of energy and almost fidgetiness, which I sometimes need to burn off with some exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Fast way to better health | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Desmond was to all appearance unconcerned; but the crew were looking at one another uneasily, and the Gujarati's brow was darkening; his fidgetiness increasing. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Even after he was out of bed his fidgetiness continued. From Wordnik.com. [In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World] Reference
It's only my fidgetiness; I can do very well a bit longer. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
Nervousness, restlessness, fidgetiness, increased upon him day by day. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
She has a feeling of anxiety and of fidgetiness, sometimes accompanied with depression of spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference
In the greater number of cases, these are sullenness, fidgetiness, and continual shifting of posture. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Ever since Mrs. Mallett had interrupted his summing-up to the jury, he had shown signs of fidgetiness. From Wordnik.com. [In the Mayor's Parlour] Reference
Conversely, over 75 per cent of the variation in fidgetiness and their urge to exercise could be explained by genetics. From Wordnik.com. [HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines] Reference
Benítez's perennial fidgetiness, by contrast, seems to find an unintended expression in his team's infuriating inconsistency. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Mrs. Sumfit for her fidgetiness, day after day, toward the finish of the dish, added a relish to his engulfing of the monstrous morsel. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
There is a species of dog -- the small French poodle -- the essence of whose character and constitution is fidgetiness or perpetual motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
In a wandering and hut life a great complacency gradually comes over the most fastidious nature, and happily blunts the edge of one's fidgetiness. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
They are all so kind and warm-hearted, that I grew quite ashamed of my own fidgetiness; and he -- he always knew the right thing at the right time. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference
A nurse will be careful to fidgetiness about airing the clean sheets from clean damp, but airing the dirty sheets from noxious damp will never even occur to her. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
This was a large, and evidently an unexpected offer, and tried his cupidity sorely; it produced a nervous fidgetiness, and he begged leave to retire and con the matter over. From Wordnik.com. [What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile] Reference
To worry the surface of applied, inlaid, or cut stuff with finnikin stitchery, is practically to confess either the inadequacy of the design or the fidgetiness of the worker. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
I did not think your fidgetiness would end in such a fine encouraging manner. ". From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
"motherly," though in the timidity, fidgetiness, and primness of her dealing with girls she was essentially a spinster. From Wordnik.com. [Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls] Reference
So the old gentleman’s fidgetiness and low spirits, which made him send for Arthur in that sudden way, really meant something. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
"physiological signs" that could indicate "whether you might have the desire or intent to do harm," and one of those potential signs is an unusually high amount of fidgetiness. From Wordnik.com. [1UP RSS feed] Reference
"So it is," said Tom; "that's some of uncle's fidgetiness; but he will be sure to dawdle at the last. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference
2 o'clock did his unusual fidgetiness begin to disappear; but when at last he walked briskly out of the hotel Mr. Podmore, to all intents, had regained his normal self-possession. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
I am not quite ready to give up my fidgetiness. From Wordnik.com. [David Michael Bruno] Reference
Onstage, the Object’s fidgetiness stilled itself. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
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