grope

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Then she closed the door as quietly as possible, and clutching the handrail began to grope her way downstairs.

DOPESAX ROHMER

After a time she managed to grope her way to her bedroom, where, turning up the light, she sank down helplessly upon the bed.

DOPESAX ROHMER

The front room, as I entered to grope for the matches, felt as cold as a stone vault, and the air held an unusual dampness.

It is not merely that I, the fanatic, have had to grope without humour.

It shot out long sinuous pseudopods that seemed to grope angrily.

Suddenly Meyrick was seen to start as if he had been shot, and to grope wildly and hurriedly in his pockets.

We have now to grope our way towards a basis of sanity and health in these vital matters.

Hopeless to search further among empty swamps and forests, to grope at large in this hushed wilderness, to coerce a jungle.

The weapon would not need to hesitate and grope; it would obtain admission into the tissues off-hand.

All the other historians suffer from a certain bedazzlement in which they grope about.

APRIL 16, 2021

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