double-shuffled

Updated: June 10, 2025

So it was that when he emerged from his room at sharp eight o'clock, he was wide-awake and happy and hungry, and whistled and double-shuffled with his feet, out of excessive energy, and carried in his hands a whole sheaf of notes and letters and telegrams.

Richard Harding Davis - The Red Cross Girl

So it was that when he emerged from his room at sharp eight o'clock, he was wide-awake and happy and hungry, and whistled and double-shuffled with his feet, out of excessive energy, and carried in his hands a whole sheaf of notes and letters and telegrams.

Various - Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis

In vain they pigeon-winged and double-shuffled in vain they nearly dislocated hips and shoulders at "hoe corn and dig potatoes" they had the mortification to perceive that the smart young sprigs from Chicago had their "pick and choose" among their very sweethearts, and that they themselves were fairly danced off the ground.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie - Wau-bun: The Early Day in the Northwest

So it was that when he emerged from his room at sharp eight o'clock, he was wide-awake and happy and hungry, and whistled and double-shuffled with his feet, out of excessive energy, and carried in his hands a whole sheaf of notes and letters and telegrams.

Richard Harding Davis - Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis