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Grope for   /groʊp fɔr/   Listen
Grope for

verb
1.
Feel searchingly.  Synonym: scrabble.






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"Grope for" Quotes from Famous Books



... she said, "that Catholics had no spiritual life; but now it seems to me that in comparison we Puritans have none. You know so much about the soul, as to what is from God and what from the Evil One; and we have to grope for ourselves. And yet our Saviour said that His sheep should know His voice. I do not understand it." And she turned towards Mistress Margaret who had laid down her ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson

... mother sank down in her chair and began to grope for a handkerchief. Keith saw that her ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman

... possession of me under the glare of so many pairs of unblinking eyes. As I fumbled with the latch-key they jumped noiselessly down and pressed against my legs, as if anxious to be let in. But I slammed the door in their faces and ran quickly upstairs. The front room, as I entered to grope for the matches, felt as cold as a stone vault, and the air held ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various

... for the north and tails for the west. The twirling half-dollar slipped from his fingers and rolled under one of the stationary seats in the waiting-room. Broffin got down on his hands and knees to grope for it, and while he was groping the chance to take the northbound "Limited" was lost. Moreover, when he finally found the coin it was standing upright in a crack ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde

... half-frozen cheeks together, as red as wine-sap apples, and grope for each other's hand through our big lamb's-wool mittens, and warm our hearts with the laughter in each other's eyes. One evening she feigned to be mounted on guard, pacing to and fro inside the gate, against which rested an enormous icicle. When I started ...
— Aftermath • James Lane Allen



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