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"We don't know anything about it, but that is no reason why we should sit back and twiddle our thumbs and start at shadows." "Well, for goodness' sake, tell us what's on your mind," prompted Grace impatiently. "We haven't sat back and twiddled our thumbs and started at shadows because we enjoyed it, you know."
"Good morning, Dickie!" she said, as Dickie crawled into the tiny living room. When Dickie took a seat upon a tiny sofa he did not know just how to ask Granny for what he wanted, so he twiddled his thumbs. "Why do you twiddle your thumbs, Dickie?" Granny asked, as she smiled through her glasses at him. "I was wondering what the three crows were talking of!" Dickie replied.
She rose, advanced two steps, made a majestic curtsey, during which all the bugles in her awful head-dress began to twiddle and quiver and then said, 'Mr. Snob, we are very happy to see you at the Evergreens, and heaved a great sigh. This, then, was Mrs.
I had a daughter once, for a few weeks, long enough to make me strangely fond of the responsibilities of a father; and then Karslake took her away, leaving me nothing to do with my life but twiddle futile thumbs and contemplate the approach of middle age." "Middle age? Why flatter yourself? With a daughter married, too!" "Sonia's only eighteen..." "She was born when you were twenty.
Mordacks; "you will have a better likeness of it than good Mother Precious. Robert, I admire your ingenuity. But all sailors are ingenious." "At sea, in the trades, or in a calm, Sir, what have we to do but to twiddle our thumbs, and practice fiddling with them? A lively tune is what I like, and a-serving of the guns red-hot; a man must act according to what nature puts upon him.
There are others who know it, too, in New York. I shan't have to twiddle my thumbs long when my resignation is published. The prejudiced trial out here won't stand in the way." In the storm of his mood, it was useless to ask questions. Isabelle merely murmured: "Too bad, too bad, I am so sorry, John!"
He tried to take aim at it, shutting the left eye as if he were shooting at a target with a rifle, which caused him to twiddle his gun about as if he were letting off a squib, for the bird darted about as though on purpose to dodge him.
Late in the autumn he is going to Petersburg, and I have foisted my trunk upon him and asked him to leave it at the Novoye Vremya office. You might keep that in mind in case any one of us or our friends goes to Petersburg. You might, by the way, look out for a place in the country. When I get back to Russia I shall take five years' rest that is, stay in one place and twiddle my thumbs.
So here I am, snugly berthed, with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs, all through judicious distribution of information." And the boy gurgled with pleasure over his own cleverness. "And say, Gillespie, I'm in regular clover! The Little Statue's here, all alone! Dad's gone to Pembina to the buffalo hunt. I've got ahead of all you fellows. I'm going to introduce a French-chap, a friend of mine."
'Where do you come from? said the Red Queen. 'And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time. Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as well as she could, that she had lost her way.
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