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His head half covered with the famous red bandana; his boots off, and a pair of dirty worsted stockings exposed to view, he twiddled his thumbs, and through half-closed eyes cast a disparaging glance at the young member of the Gallery who had not yet patronised either his whisky or his ham; then, with a grunt, he would wake up and begin to speak.
The high-priest appeared to consider that, when Archie twiddled, it was his intention to bid in hundreds, whereas in fact Archie had meant to signify that he raised the previous bid by just one dollar. Archie felt that, if given time, he could make this clear to the high-priest, but the latter gave him no time.
She rolled her eyes, with an air of resigned sentiment, and shook the bobbing black curls gently from side to side. "And he just twiddled his thumbs like this, and grunted." She seized her sister around her plump waist and shook her vigorously. "Don't you see it?" she demanded. The older girl laughed hysterically, with disturbed eyes. "Don't, Cara!" she protested. The dark eyes bubbled again.
The curate twiddled his thumbs, as the eyes of all the party followed the exit of Mrs Forster; and there were a few moments of silence. "Don't you find her a pleasant little craft, Forster?" said Hilton, addressing Newton. Nicholas Forster, who was in a brown study about his wife, shook his head without lifting up his eyes, while Newton nodded assent.
Pen and ink on the table, alongside the more sinister bottle, told of an act of penmanship. "We'll have the night clerk and some one else witness the signatures," he said quietly. "All right," said Braddock hoarsely. He was staring at his fingers, which he twiddled in a nerveless, irresolute manner. "The inside conditions are between you and me personally.
Harry, strangely sobered and silent, sat listening. He could not understand Jones, and he was on his guard, knowing how often the fellow turned into a farce what seemed a serious matter. Dismal locked his fingers and twiddled his thumbs. He cleared his throat and then said: "Merry, what would you say if I were to tell everything I could find out about our crew to the sophs?"
"She said something to him, did she? perhaps she gave him the fellow flower to this;" and he took out of his coat and twiddled in his thumb and finger a poor little shrivelled crumpled bud that had faded and blackened with the heat and flare of the night "I wonder to how many more she has given her artless tokens of affection the little flirt" and he flung his into the gutter, where the water may have refreshed it, and where any amateur of rosebuds may have picked it up.
The Captain obeyed the gesture, but his huge frame looked awkward on the low seat; he felt aware of it, then aware of the cap on his head; he snatched it off hastily, and twiddled it between his fingers. Mr.
"For my part I think shall be satisfied with something less than a fortune." "We're going to make ours suddenly," she said. "So HE old says." She jerked her head at my uncle. "He won't tell me when so I can't get anything ready. But it's coming. Going to ride in our carriage and have a garden. Garden like a bishop's." She finished her bun and twiddled crumbs from her fingers.
He had, however, said so much about work and the great care I must take in avoiding men who distracted me from my duty, that I thought I had better tell him that I was a very human being. I never remember having twiddled my thumbs before but I caught myself doing it in his room. He was so placid and demure that I could not imagine that he had ever done a foolish thing in his life.
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