fidgetings

It's the coffee, it's the nicotine, it's the deadlines my dear the deadlines, the so much to do, the such little time, the petty done, the undone vast, the sleep-when-I'm dead, or not even then, for he moves through this world as if rehearsing and rehearsing until it becomes second nature his repertoire of poltergeist shufflings and bangings and spectral fidgetings.

Impatience Adam Roberts Project 2007

It's the coffee, it's the nicotine, it's the deadlines my dear the deadlines, the so much to do, the such little time, the petty done, the undone vast, the sleep-when-I'm dead, or not even then, for he moves through this world as if rehearsing and rehearsing until it becomes second nature his repertoire of poltergeist shufflings and bangings and spectral fidgetings.

Archive 2007-10-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

She opened her note immediately, glad to have anything to do, and happy, as she read it, to feel that the fidgetings of her aunt Norris, who was also to dine there, screened her a little from view.

Mansfield Park 2004

It was very well for Ginevra to be gummed to me, “keeping herself warm,” as she said, on the winter evenings, and harassing my very heart with her fidgetings and pokings, obliging me, indeed, sometimes to put an artful pin in my girdle by way of protection against her elbow; but

Villette 2003

The latter third of the speech was marred by the resumption of fights and other recreations among certain of the bad boys, and by fidgetings and whisperings that extended far and wide, washing even to the bases of isolated and incorruptible rocks like Sid and Mary.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

And, where her tumblings and fidgetings had failed, this sound called her companion back from the downy meadows.

Growing Pains 2003

There was silence in the office except for the fidgetings and scufflings resulting from the Slytherins 'efforts to keep Ron and the others under control.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

Tam turned his head round at one point, attracted by Spammy's back-seat fidgetings as he popped some morsel of food into the household-size matchbox he had put Sparky in.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

Finally, you will note the fidgetings and scratchings which appear to our Lilliputian perceptions as earthquakes and convulsions. '

When The World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968

Finally, you will note the fidgetings and scratchings which appear to our Lilliputian perceptions as earthquakes and convulsions. '

When the World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968