fidget

When you feel it in your stomach, your attention wanders, and you begin to fidget. I fidgeted silently in my place on the sand.

So then he was in a fidget for the rain to let up, so we could turn out and run across some of the people and see if they would say anything about it to us.

"Steady, steady, my boy," he would say; "wait a bit, and we will have a good swing, and soon get the tickle out of your feet." Then as soon as we were out of the village, he would give me a few miles at a spanking trot, and then bring me back as fresh as before, only clear of the fidgets, as he called them.

I fidgeted up and down the raft, abusing myself to myself, and Jim was fidgeting up and down past me.

No doubt they fidgeted only about as usual, but it didn't seem so to me.

Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.

If he fidgeted his uncle was apt to grow restless and say it was high time he went to school.

Yes, it's about her, and though it's a little thing, it fidgets me."

He would have tossed and fidgeted, as his nerves demanded, but he was afraid he might wake Sid.

The Sheriff fidgeted like a small boy who has forgotten his lesson.

I wandered in it, pitching the tabernacle of my thoughts on the lining of the square family-pew, the fidgets of my small brothers, and the horror of knowing that, on the Monday, I should have to write out, from memory, jottings of the rambling disconnected extempore sermon, which might have had any text but its own, and to stand or fall by the result.

'Fidgeting in adults has been found to consist mainly of things like tapping hands or feet but children make bigger whole-body movements when they fidget and they also fidget more often than adults.