It was too cold to omit the wearing of heavy woolen socks, so he could not twiddle his toes with perfect freedom, but he could twiddle them some, and that helped his mental processes.
So Jason held on, and the town meeting approached, and Scattergood continued to sit in idleness on the piazza of his store and twiddle his bare toes in the sunshine.
And for any further information we may knock our rotten heads against a brick wall and twiddle our thumbs.
He stood like a king among his peers, but flushed and restless, twiddling his fingers as kings do not twiddle theirs.
Chatting about this and that we journeyed along till after old Twiddle had craned his neck over a ledge to regard the other side of a field he announced our walk for the present ended.
No matter for that; a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and old Twiddle can tell something of its life-history.
Well, Twiddle and I started on our ramble, and this was how he was equipped.
Twiddle now placed the dummy bird just beneath a branch of the thorn close to the cage and so as to be easily seen, and all around it and round the cage the bristles carefully limed were stuck.
Thinks she can twiddle the A'mighty round her thumb because her face ain't spotty.
Twiddle our thumbs and whistle, till the soldiers come, I suppose!
