6 uses
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Definition
to make small restless movements
- "Give us another bottle," Stepan Arkadyevitch directed the Tatar, who was filling up their glasses and fidgeting round them just when he was not wanted.Part One (34% in)
- "I've put a muzzle on her, and the mare's fidgety.Part Two (53% in)
- The mare's fidgety," he added, nodding towards the horse-box, before which they were standing, and from which came the sound of restless stamping in the straw.Part Two (54% in)
- "There, you see how fidgety she is," said the Englishman.Part Two (55% in)
- Why do you keep fidgeting, why don't you go to sleep?" his brother's voice called to him.Part Three (98% in)
- The passage at which he was utterly unable to say anything, and began fidgeting and cutting the table and swinging his chair, was where he had to repeat the patriarchs before the Flood.Part Five (79% in)
There are no more uses of "fidget" in Anna Karenina.
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