She could hear Bach's interminable twiddles, and this exasperated her nerves and she wept through many preludes and fugues.
"The Untilled Field"
George Moore
No: painted, but wi' the twiddles put in so artfully you'd think 'twas rale.
"I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So it went on, over and over again, more sad than the sight of a quaker as he twiddles his thumbs.
"The Field of Clover"
Laurence Housman