Fast-moving knitting needles clicking and flicking like a crab’s antennae.

‘Knitting with fierce rapidity, as if that movement were a necessary function, like the twittering of a crab’s antennae.’

Source: George Eliot, Adam Bede (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 (1859)), p. 384

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