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  • Neil's siblings are also lovely but two of them manage to get right on my nerves a lot, which I never want to show or voice, so I get kind of fidgetty and tense after a few days.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • The term "fidgetty" seems to describe appropriately the temperament of the elephant.

    Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

  • But that's not so much about being productive as calming my fidgetty self so that I can focus on something that otherwise wouldn't require all of my attention and bore me.

    While typing this post I am closing six business deals, translating a poem by Neruda, preparing a complicated sauce for our dinner tonight, and changing the oil on my car 2009

  • When I had to spend an entire day sitting at a computer I found I got really fidgetty!

    Snell-Pym » Rebooting Me 2009

  • She was at all times restless and fidgetty, she spoke in

    The Watch 2006

  • Mr. Blewitt was no match for my master: all the time he was fidgetty, silent, and sulky; on the contry, master was charmin.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • My legs get restless and fidgetty because I'm not ILL, I'm just meant to rest a lot.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2004

  • Normally I get fidgetty and uncomfy just sitting there on my own, I like to act like I'm mingling without actually making contact with anyone!

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2004

  • The looks of Wamba, on the other hand, indicated, as usual with his class, a sort of vacant curiosity, and fidgetty impatience of any posture of repose, together with the utmost self-satisfaction respecting his own situation, and the appearance which he made.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • When the beetles (APPECTROGASTRA FLAVIPILIS) into which these stolid grubs and fidgetty nymphs develop, are chopped out of decayed wood, they have the odour of truffles, and emit two distinct squeaky notes from the throat and the abdominal segments respectively.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

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