She saw as through a veil her mother's scanty fair hair ruffled by the breeze, her sharp pointed nose-reddened by crying-turning first to the right and then to the left at every sound, her dressing-jacket flapping like a white flag, her thin legs crossing and uncrossing perpetually in nervous excitement.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
No relief for him but crossing and uncrossing his legs from time to time.
"Tales & Novels, Vol. IX [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond]"
Maria Edgeworth
His diamond rings kept flirting round the edge of the Sporting Times, his brown boots shifting their position on the cushion in front of him, his legs crossing, uncrossing, recrossing, his cigar-smoke rising in quick, uneasy puffs.
"The Delectable Duchy"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch