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    fiddle


    fiddled


    fiddles


    fiddling


    1. He had to fiddle with the edges and shift the settings around slightly to detect body heat


    2. With one hand on the wheel he used the other to fiddle with the dial until he found some suitably sentimental melodies that suited his voice and so began to croon


    3. lively tunes on fiddle and mouth-organ, while


    4. this,' he tapped the fiddle by his side, 'we will always have


    5. continued to poke, prod and fiddle with various objects on


    6. his fiddle and ran


    7. After everyone had eaten their full, except for father O’Hara who was wolfing down a fourth bowl of stew, the travelers put together a group consisting of a fiddle, a flute and Cajon wooden drum and started to play


    8. Fiddle and Faddle, n


    9. Ended up there because he couldn"t find room to fiddle in the basement


    10. Consider Fiddle and Faddle in the White House swimming pool while Jackie was away

    11. For that matter, he didn"t have Fiddle and Faddle a la Kennedy in the White House swimming pool nor did he, in the manner of Johnson, bend stenographers over the Oval Office desk


    12. Karla watched him fiddle with the weapon, heard a snick as something slid out


    13. You are an old vampire and I hope you'll have the Scotch fiddle!" Faith did not know what a vampire meant any more than she knew what the Scotch fiddle was


    14. No, she wasn't going to go down there and play second fiddle to anybody


    15. “Fit as a fiddle,” he said to me, then turned to the bartender and said, “Double Bushie me lad


    16. I told him that I could no longer live with him, that I was alright playing second fiddle


    17. The orchestra, such as it was, consisted of a couple of guitars, a bass, an accordion, drums, a fiddle and lots of human voices


    18. She let me know in no uncertain terms that she would not be a second fiddle


    19. A charred fiddle lay in the mud next to


    20. the ruined fiddle at the edge of the explosion

    21. That means I fiddle around with the genes of human eggs and sperm according to the parents’ instructions, before fertilising the eggs and later implanting the healthiest zygotes


    22. Lunch was a sandwich and after, long, rambling walks in the woods where she dug for ginseng, morels, fiddle heads and other herbs


    23. She always played second fiddle to something in his life, now it was her kid sister


    24. He saw on the small video screen of the panel Jeanne fiddle with the controls of one of the external cameras


    25. She began to fiddle with the lapel of his blazer, turning it over, then patting it flat again


    26. Apart from having psyonic powers that will make the job of countering them vastly more difficult, they have already proven that they won’t hesitate to fiddle with history, as was the case with Yeshua


    27. Once inside, he showed Adam his seat and began to fiddle with the controls


    28. Think about how much time you will save not having to fiddle around creating your own squeeze pages - time that could be spent promoting!


    29. ―He said he was OK, that he was fit as a fiddle, that they had not hurt him


    30. his back against a wall and produced a length of cord with which to fiddle

    31. of the clerks in there is on the fiddle


    32. Richilde nodded her head at those words: Foulques’ situation was a common one for many cadet sons of the nobility, who had to play second fiddle to their elder brothers


    33. It was the same wino who helped himself to the putrefied meat sitting in my refrigerator and I couldn’t believe my eyes that he was not only alive, but seemingly as fit as a drunken fiddle


    34. So I pulled out my keys and pretended to fiddle with finding the right one


    35. Mikey offered to take me to the hospital, but I was feeling as fit as a fiddle knowing that I was leaving with Jennifer in the morning


    36. Typically he would have used it as a prop, something to fiddle with in order to avoid a heartfelt conversation


    37. the time so that they could fiddle with their video settings


    38. I play the fiddle


    39. “I was captured with my fiddle which I’ve managed to keep intact all these years


    40. “I hope, Stu, your fiddle isn’t too heavy,” said the Doctor smiling

    41. The fiddle clattered over the wood


    42. ” He gave his fiddle to the Rielde, and said to Nefer, “I won’t hurt her, and it will only be me


    43. Comes the Bride” on his fiddle as Clara and her father


    44. Tears began to roll down Tom’s cheeks; and I stole his fiddle and whacked it against people’s backs, but no one noticed


    45. Finally he got wise and, lifting his fiddle, launched into the old reel


    46. To her astonishment, she thought she heard a fiddle playing somewhere in the direction of the lake


    47. Then, she noticed movement in the woods, and when she looked closer, she saw a man playing the fiddle


    48. “Yes, beautiful!” he shouted over the fiddle tune


    49. dlers continued to fiddle – late into the night


    50. Now she was eating sop at a Christian table, conversing with the godless, playing second fiddle to a sister she never knew existed














































    1. The gaoler fiddled with his keys and unlocked the door at the end of the passage,


    2. He lowered his eyes and fiddled with the food on his plate with his fork


    3. The gaoler fiddled with his keys and unlocked the door at the end of the passage, pushing it back to reveal a short flight of steps carved out of natural rock


    4. I tried not to stare, but the old man looked scared, and fiddled with the leaves of his dinner


    5. He fiddled with the dials, eventually found a trace


    6. Nauseated, Chrissie lowered her eyes and fiddled with her food


    7. He fiddled nervously with the watch and fob with its attendant key in his vest pocket while he waited on the platform with the few other travelers


    8. ” George sighed cheerfully and he picked up the large pipe he had fiddled with earlier


    9. Adam fiddled with his hands nervously


    10. fiddled with safety, and then began firing at Stenworth

    11. He fiddled around


    12. his arm again and she put her feet on top of his while Eric fiddled with the trapdoor and


    13. She wouldn't have fiddled with computer keys


    14. The fiddlers fiddled and fiddled, and the children danced and


    15. She fiddled with the envelope


    16. He fiddled with the sound system, checked the podium and took an interested look at what I was doing and then left


    17. I felt the heat rise in my face, and I fiddled with my sandwich to cover it


    18. ” He fiddled about for a few more minutes, but ended up making such a mess of Piers’ leg that he gave up


    19. He fiddled around, one-handedly trying to keep track of the torch, while not floating away, and trying to find the silly control knob to the left of his bulging visor


    20. One insect suspected a malfunction and tapped an instrument panel, another fiddled with measuring equipment on a nearby table

    21. A light operated by a mechanical switch can only be turned on or off by physically pressing the switch; whereas a light regulated by an electronic circuit could, feasibly, be fiddled with; especially if it was a sophisticated remote controlled switch


    22. I didn’t succeed but fiddled around for some time trying to look very professional


    23. “I just think that the language is being fiddled with, don’t you? I mean a Creator


    24. He fiddled with another knob


    25. “Come on Mana, let's get this door open,” I said as I fiddled with the lock


    26. He fiddled with the cord until the buzzing quit


    27. He was smiling as underwater boy stared at the ceiling and fiddled with his nails


    28. “Ever noticed,” I said, as I fiddled with the label on my bottle


    29. Sitting down on one of the barstools he fiddled with his hands wondering what he was to do next


    30. A REMF was a Rear Echelon Mother Fucker who fiddled with war plans but never visited the battlefield

    31. I fiddled with the radio, but it was dead


    32. I went to my room, fiddled with the radio, but it still wasn’t


    33. turned her back on me and fiddled with one of her computers


    34. He stared intently at the engine, fiddled here and there, and swore


    35. Hayley started to nod off as Greg fiddled with a bag


    36. I fiddled about for hours with the receiver, but try as I might, I never heard Rosita Serrano again


    37. I fiddled in my breast pocket, frowned, turned to Jon and said tersely, „You haven"t left them in the car have you? After telling me I was getting forgetful


    38. The two shared a mutual nod while Joel fiddled with his empty glass some more


    39. Tim gripped the door handle as ‘Sir’ fiddled with his mobile phone


    40. What do you see?” He fiddled with the computer a bit more

    41. Tafferel reached the door and fiddled with the lock for a few seconds


    42. He fiddled with the indoor ariel to try and get a better picture until he was satisfied that this was as good as it got


    43. Diaries, reports, memorabilia," he muttered, moving forward while his old hands fiddled inside his tunic for the key chained about his neck


    44. She fiddled in her bag on the seat with one hand, and produced a


    45. He found the nearest orderran and fiddled with his helmet


    46. Joey fiddled with the translator in his ear and said to Yeltsa, “You better give me my stuff when we’re through


    47. Corey and I fiddled and dawdled with the counterfeit


    48. Next morning they were up early and had breakfast in the hotel restaurant, Murray drove away at eight thirty and Shirl left the hotel an hour later, Murray parked at a meter a little away from the Plaza Hotel, Mr Kennedy left first then a half hour later Mr Cruz drove up the ramp and turned left, when he’d turned the corner Murray fed the parking meter and walked quickly into the hotel, entering the lobby with his briefcase under his arm, he walked nonchalantly to the lift and ascended to the second floor, he halted at room two one seven with lock picks in hand he glanced up and down the lobby, fiddled with the lock and walked calmly into Mr Cruz’s room closing the door behind him, opening his briefcase he loaded the two air guns with drugged darts, he then placed the Post Office money and the bag of cocaine in the top drawer of the bedside cabinet, Murray then searched the room for anything that might implicate him, satisfied that everything was in order he sat on the floor at the side of a cabinet were he’d be hidden from anyone who entered, it was over an hour later that the key was inserted in the lock and Mr Cruz walked towards the bed, his instincts must have warned him because he spun around as Murray fired the dart gun, a look of fury glaring on his face as Mario collapsed onto the carpet, it must have occurred to him at last that he had grossly underestimated Mr Jay, Murray fired the other air pistol into Mr Cruz’s body just to make sure, then opening his briefcase he took out the syringe which he had filled with a cocaine mixture Sally had recommended, opening Mario’s shirt Murray emptied the contents of the syringe into Mario’s belly, he then retrieved his darts and searched Mario’s pockets for any papers that might refer to Murray or Mr Kennedy these he also put in his briefcase, the last thing he did was check that he hadn’t smudged the fingerprints on the syringe, he then laid it on the floor next to Mario’s body, one final inspection of the room, and he was walking towards the stairwell where he took his gloves off and added them to the contents of his briefcase


    49. she fiddled with more papers and books on her desk


    50. It appeared the man at the helm had locked it, lifted the engine cover and fiddled about with the fuel pipe












































    1. ’ I told her as she puts it round my neck and, brushing my hair out of the way, fiddles with the catch


    2. waltzes life away to the fiddles reeling in her head


    3. She stops and fiddles with her panini again


    4. ’ He fiddles with the paperweight on his desk, ‘I see … is this likely to result in me having to look for a new secretary, Anna?’


    5. and traditional music – you know, with fiddles and


    6. At four o'clock the fiddlers put up their fiddles and the children went


    7. Instead of being troubled by a crisis in the economy and a seemingly hopeless future, it fiddles with a remote, not being able to choose between American Idol and Hell’s Kitchen


    8. The Estate Agent fiddles with his bunch of keys, and opens the door


    9. Octavius and several others provided the music with fiddles, spoons, and washboards,


    10. He was tired of second fiddles

    11. Ceased, The Fiddles Ceased


    12. If she fiddles with her clothes or hair, she is subconsciously showing you that she wants to look


    13. He fiddles with his hands, looks away, and bounces his leg, as though


    14. “Nothing's going on,” Lonna says as she rudely fiddles with her nails, not looking at Mary


    15. She snorts and looks at the ground, then slowly pulls out her ID and fiddles with it, struggling to force herself to open the gate


    16. He sits there and "fiddles" with us to try to warm us up to His


    17. Brian comes over to me, and I put my arm around him as Mom fiddles with the camera


    18. They had heard fiddles, guitars and trumpets but none of those could make the resonant, haunting sounds that now filled their ears


    19. Notice how the Pope fiddles as the world burns! Too little too late while sitting atop a pyramid of


    20. D -213-put a rope on her, as she nervously fiddles with

    21. He fiddles with the batteries, reconsiders the antennas, triple-checks fuses


    22. When he has the strength, he fiddles with it


    23. From the rooms came a constant, steady hum, as from a hive, and the rustle of movement; and while on the landing between trees they gave last touches to their hair and dresses before the mirror, they heard from the ballroom the careful, distinct notes of the fiddles of the orchestra beginning the first waltz


    24. bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slow rendition of conducting the bazaar had arrived yet, but all eyes turned toward him


    25. Then the fiddles, “Lorena”—too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of their wares


    26. Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold


    27. There was music in his voice, the music of fiddles and banjos to which they had danced in the white house that was no more


    28. Then we were at the reception after their mother’s funeral, the whiskey was being handed around, and the fiddles were starting to come out under the harsh neon glare of the function room


    29. "And as you wouldn't hear of my gieing a rattling good randy wi' fiddles and bass-viols complete, as we should ha' done in old times, this was all I could think o' as a noiseless thing


    30. “Two fiddles and two swords, a cross engrailed,” he said to Egg as they watched the dust of their departure

    31. As they ate, pipes and fiddles filled the air with spritely tunes, and the talk turned to the morrow’s jousting


    32. Dunk could only stand and watch as the Fiddler’s big black trotted onto the field in a swirl of blue silk and golden swords and fiddles


    33. Nine times he and the Fiddler charged with leveled lances, the green patchwork knight and the young lordling of the golden swords and fiddles, and nine times their lances shattered


    34. Lunch concluded, Desi fiddles with me for a while: my hair, my skin, my clothes, my mind


    35. So they sang, or very like that, only there was a great deal more of it, and there was much shouting as well as the music of harps and of fiddles mixed up with it


    36. She reaches out and fiddles with one as she talks


    37. All the girls who had come had been there then; the Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long expected cart had arrived with the wines and provisions


    38. There were spectators in the boxes, the orchestra moved their bows across their fiddles by machinery, the conductor waved his baton, and in the stalls officers and dandies clapped their hands


    39. Some of our pianists gave sweet music, but so far above a part of the assembly that I’ve no doubt they longed for their “fiddles and banjoes


    1. ' he replied, frowning slightly and staring at the spoon he is fiddling with


    2. He ambles back, watches John fiddling with his wedding ring


    3. "Anyway, my sister wanted to be warned," she was fiddling with a ground-comm panel


    4. The girl visibly gathered her courage together, fiddling with the spoon in her saucer for a moment as though rehearsing the words she wanted to say


    5. Allowing the other pedestrians to pass, she paused, one hand on the post of the crossing for balance, and bent over fiddling with her shoe, her senses firing off warnings … she could smell danger


    6. Unfortunately, Cyberia’s appreciation of art and craft was based on the experience gained at her finishing school, where she had spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours and making decoupage kittens out of old socks and yoghurt pot lids


    7. He’s fiddling with one of the shirts lying on the table


    8. Alastair is in the kitchen, fiddling with the oven


    9. spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours


    10. ’ He replied fiddling with the beer mats on the table

    11. “Yeah, one of those shallow creeps who only care about making money!” The third fat-cat said, absent-mindedly fiddling with the golden penchant hanging around his neck


    12. Desa was fiddling with the controls on what would be the amp if this was an old time rock & roll gig in what Earth’s music history now called ‘the age of the electric guitar’


    13. Tell him, Helez,” Xonia prodded Helez who was fiddling with her hands in her lap


    14. The visitor nodded a polite acknowledgement upon seeing Mr Pinscher, and remained standing, restlessly fiddling with the tattered hem of his threadbare coat, as he waited his turn to speak


    15. “You coming now, Major?” he yelled up to Warlock, who was fiddling with the weather station


    16. By the time he made it to the bathroom, he could already hear Ronnie fiddling with the lock of the apartment door, like a metallic mouse building a nest inside the tumbler


    17. Rosemary sat, fiddling absentmindedly with Jack's birthday gift, turning it over and over with her fingers, without looking at what she was doing


    18. Although he is not guilty as charged of fiddling while Rome burned, I have it on good authority that during the burning he did sing his heart out


    19. He looked at his opponent, fiddling nervously with his clothes and sweating profusely, and all of Raven’s guilt and neuroses came flooding back to him


    20. She was fiddling nervously, a slight tremor in her fingers

    21. some stranger fiddling around with something that could as easily be programmed to kill you


    22. Dawn sat beside Sheena as she drove the car along the track, fiddling with the radio


    23. I stood by the driver’s door fiddling with the key, trying to get it into the lock of the door while trying to hold my handbag and my extra bag which held all my files, all at the same time


    24. He put his hands over mine that were fiddling with the napkin


    25. A nurse was standing beside the bed fiddling with a new machine with a different bleep


    26. ” Lee looked over his shoulder and smiled before going back to fiddling with the outboard motor


    27. He could see the doctor idly fiddling with some sort of paper on his writing pad


    28. She was sitting, propped up by lots of pillows, on the chair she sat in day in and day out, fiddling with the television constantly


    29. “It’s beautiful,” Manda said, fiddling with the knobs


    30. But despite fiddling with a few buttons, the radio's reception fails to improve

    31. There was a noisy table fan that the kid was fiddling with


    32. “Is that all you feel?” He quizzes, fiddling with my fingers


    33. “Ah the best kind” he said fiddling with my bra strap


    34. This loss was just another unanticipated, but huge, consequence of government’s ‘all-knowing’ management and fiddling with efficient production


    35. "You have a longer rest this time, because it takes more fiddling to get the cavalry through the foot ranks


    36. And what would that be?” She busied herself moving the beddings behind and fiddling


    37. “What or who is Jahna? There wasn’t anyone named Jahna on that job,” he countered, still fiddling with his phone


    38. Connie’s fiddling with her TV remote as he thanks her upon leaving


    39. No fiddling with


    40. Tonight whilst your partner is talking at you try fiddling with your phone, don't maintain eye contact with her, start working out what you are going to say to her in response to what she's said, but do it whilst she's still talking

    41. He looked at G then back to his hands, fiddling with his fingers as he struggled to find the right words


    42. “No, I was just fiddling around on the internet


    43. After fiddling with all


    44. Dan could see a few people around the building fiddling with some cables


    45. She was so urgent and so poorly Informed that she explained to them In another letter that there was no such state of agitation and that everything was the result of the lunacy of a brother-in-law of hers who was fiddling around at that time in that labor union non-sense just as he had been involved with cockfighting and riverboats before


    46. He was fiddling with the idea of calling in the


    47. master console and sat thinking and idly fiddling with the


    48. relationships and fiddling with Database objects


    49. As the two guards drove away towards the causeway Mr Hawk and Mr Crow pulled in along side the truck, they waited ten minutes for the guards to settle in, then Mr Hawk and Mr Crow both got out of the panel van and walked past the drivers door of the truck, Murray reached into the glove box and retrieved his leather wallet of lock picks and walked after them, they turned in at the second house along, well, not exactly a house, it was more along the lines of a mansion, the money they were about to steal wouldn’t even be enough to rent this place for a month let alone buy it, and they say crime doesn’t pay, Murray keeping his mind on the job, fiddling with the lock and thought to himself for what the owners had paid for the oak door you’d think they would have had proper locks fitted, they were inside in less than ten seconds


    50. Fifteen minutes later after a bit more fiddling with his probe he called to Mr Hawk and they carried the box out to the vehicle then went back in and began to carry the tool bags with the gear in out to the truck, Mr Hawk called Mr Crow to help load the truck, Mr Hawk and Murray were folding up the blackout curtain when Mr Crow said











































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    Synonyms for "fiddle"

    fiddle violin tinker monkey tamper diddle play toy goldbrick shirk shrink from

    "fiddle" definitions

    bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow


    avoid (one's assigned duties)


    commit fraud and steal from one's employer


    play the violin or fiddle


    play on a violin


    manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination


    play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly


    try to fix or mend