atwitch

I lay so still that a mouse ran across my foot, pausing to sample a button on my shoe with his sharp teeth before lifting his head to sniff in my direction, whiskers atwitch, and scampering on.

Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006

/But before she could pursue that line of thought, Khiindi looked up at her with a wide-eyed stare, whiskers, ears, and tail tip all atwitch.

First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

I could have slept again, perhaps; without awaking, clammy, peering into every shadow, listening, nerves atwitch to each slightest sound disturbing the night; without groping beneath the pillow for my revolver.

The Quest of the Sacred Slipper Sax Rohmer 1921

Nerves atwitch, I started around in its direction.

The Quest of the Sacred Slipper Sax Rohmer 1921

His horse looked at him with eyes wild with terror and every muscle atwitch.

The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

The brute was padding softly at my side, his sensitive nose constantly atwitch and his fierce eyes moving restlessly from side to side -- nothing would ever take Raja unawares!

Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

An abbreviated history of the walled garden, as told by John Brookes: Walled gardens get people all atwitch.

The Seattle Times 2011

Cats" eyes gleamed from alleyways, their shivery whiskers atwitch in the cold air, paws flicking in distaste as they navigated foul puddles of filthy rainwater from the previous night's storm.

Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000