"Fidgety" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Father, and play checkers with you too, like as not!" They explained to Betsy: "Your Uncle Henry is just daft on being read aloud to when he's got something to do in the evening, and when he hasn't he's as fidgety as a broody hen if he can't play checkers. Ann hates checkers and I haven't got ...
— Understood Betsy • Dorothy Canfield
... grew fidgety again and began opening a drawer in the chest. Lavretsky sat still without ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... are absurd, now, Louisa," the squire said. "The man has, over and over again, proved himself to be a most faithful friend to him. I own that it is a little trying to see him standing behind Harry's chair, without moving, except when his master wants something; but after all, that is less fidgety than having footmen dodging ...
— At the Point of the Bayonet - A Tale of the Mahratta War • G. A. Henty
... of the fidgety little woman's voice and manner was so complete that the others broke into ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... not relish interruption, and was a thought fidgety in his natural temper, had laid down the paper on the table, snuffed the candle, and raised his spectacles on his brow. But I said to him, "Excuse freedoms, James, and be so good as resume your discourse." ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir
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