MOOS: There's about three times more fidgeting occurs when you don't have good foot support in a chair. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2002] Reference
Every movement should be quiet, and the rattling of fans and of books in the rack, and "fidgeting" changes of position should be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
4) Babies crying and kids fidgeting is the same in any language. From Wordnik.com. [Narita] Reference
I do have some compulsive habits such as fidgeting with everything. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
Avoid fidgeting and extraneous facial expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline Dowd-Higgins: The Power of In-Person Communication in Your Job Search] Reference
At this gala, not one was fidgeting, waiting to leave. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Karel Bouley: One Smart Blonde] Reference
I felt like a hog in armour, fidgeting inside and out. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
I'm fidgeting from foot to foot, waiting for the fireworks. From Wordnik.com. [God Particle] Reference
Hit's just a-stirrin 'hup and a-fidgeting the other' orses. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
So there stood Duncan, fidgeting to get on, yet bound to the spot where. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Reluctantly Ann desisted from fidgeting with the bowl of snowdrops, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
He put it down after a few minutes, however, and began fidgeting about the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
“What happens in the world, and across the street exactly?” he says, fidgeting. From Wordnik.com. [Extinction] Reference
"I'm not going out, I don't care who it is!" exclaimed Dunk, fidgeting in his chair. From Wordnik.com. [Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery] Reference
Miss Gwynne was fidgeting with her dress, and Gladys went to assist her, uncalled for. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
At this point, he was fidgeting so much, he was almost climbing onto the kitchen table. From Wordnik.com. [A Losing Hand] Reference
Soon, she was nervously fidgeting about in the booth, trying to find a comfortable position. From Wordnik.com. [Phantasmagoria] Reference
Well, this man was in a hurry, it seems, and kept fidgeting around and looking at his watch. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
And that it was probably genetic: My mother was sitting beside me fidgeting even more than I. From Wordnik.com. [Angels of Merce in a West Side Wonderland] Reference
The clear eyes of pale hazel looked past the fine young man on the beautiful fidgeting horse. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
"Oh, that ain't nothin '," he denied, fidgeting uneasily, while Mollie hastily sorted the letters. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
But by lunch, she'd grown tired of fidgeting about in the apartment and she had to get out of there. From Wordnik.com. [Like Flying] Reference
I can feel his pulsing nervousness, his fidgeting, can see the tiny beads of sweat before they even form. From Wordnik.com. [Glass Handcuffs] Reference
O'Toole glanced over at the bench where his wife sat fidgeting with her ring finger. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15] Reference
Amilcare, whose desperate grinning made his jaws ache, noticed so much as he watched her, fidgeting in his place. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
And yet, when all the fidgeting was over, he wished that it had to begin again, that he might have a further respite. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Words Sir Charles had spoken a little while ago in regard to his wife's "fidgeting about his pillow" recurred to Esther. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
"Even in class, she'd be pacing up and down, fidgeting, moving all the time," says a former security officer at the school. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman With Two Lives] Reference
Indeed, many of the tell-tale signs common to liars, like fidgeting and sweating, can also be signs of ordinary anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Ways To Tell If Someone Is Lying To You] Reference
'Well,' said the captain, fidgeting impatiently with his pen as he sat surrounded by waves of MSS., 'thrash them, can't you?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
"I-- I am afraid not," she answered, hesitating, and nervously fidgeting with some paint brushes that lay on a table beside her. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Soon the box was gone and she continued fidgeting madly as a pastor took the stage and asked for a volunteer to lead in a prayer. From Wordnik.com. [A Raisin in The Sun] Reference
"Can't say, sir," said the man, staring straight above my head with unmoving eyes, but fidgeting nervously with his hands and feet. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
When that fidgeting began so early in the defense presentation, I thought, it sounds to me like the defense doesn't have much to say. From Wordnik.com. [The Investigation: An Oral History] Reference
Kate is muttering rapidly to herself and fidgeting with her coat and bag and not really paying much attention to the cats, which is odd. From Wordnik.com. [It’s like this, cat] Reference
They clog the roads, sipping lukewarm coffee out of cardboard cups, fidgeting with their radios, chatting aimlessly on their cell phones. From Wordnik.com. [Breath] Reference
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