And I noticed before I went away that he was growing twitchy, and seemed to be getting the habit of making unpleasant little noises in his throat."
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
The Probationer, rather twitchy from excitement and anxiety, felt her heart stop and race on again.
"Love Stories"
Mary Roberts Rinehart
It was there just because some of the boys had taken a dislike to it; in fact it was a priggish hat, and as Gobelot had a twitchy sort of a face that would work well under feelings of surprise and resentment, they thought they would like to watch him, from the first moment when he would miss his hat, to the last when he would discover its whereabouts.
"Fragments of an Autobiography"
Felix Moscheles