Apparently aware of how readable she was at that moment, Lucie looked down, flicked invisible crumbs from the table.

He also evokes the Jewish waiter's sense of being in business for himself, his protective armor of wit and his attempts to bring order to disorder by constantly fussing over silverware, straightening chairs and flicking crumbs with a napkin otherwise kept over one shoulder.

The late-afternoon sun was slanting sideways through the trellis in the Ladies' Garden; the light fell in long slashes across the tablecloth, where the most famous male movie star in Bombay entertained himself by flicking stray crumbs with his fork.

I flicked crumbs from my jacket and thought of LaManche's doughnuts.

Tossing the apple aside, she nibbled daintily, flicking crumbs from her whiskers.

He shook his head, flicking crumbs of dried mud off his shirtfront.

He wiped his mouth on the tablecloth, sighed, sat back in the great chair, and beamed beatifically at his guests while flicking crumbs from his robe.