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She looked at the bag in her lap and picked nervously at it with a gloved finger.
The Maltese Falcon, by Samuel Dashiell Hammett, p. 7
Is it like 'poked'?
 
It's more like 'fiddled with'. Imagine the way she would play with her bag to calm her nerves.
 
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