1 To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing.
2 Thou canst blind; but I can then grope.
3 When he had filled one cart he had to grope around him until another came, and if there was none on hand he continued to grope till one arrived.
4 He saw a hand come forth and grope about a little.
5 He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it.
6 The ten master songs I have mentioned tell in word and music of trouble and exile, of strife and hiding; they grope toward some unseen power and sigh for rest in the End.
7 Her lips, groping for his, swept over his face, and he held her fast in a rapture of surprise.
8 She could feel his small hands groping through the folds for her legs.
9 She had not known again till today that lightness, that glow of freedom; but now it was something more than a blind groping of the blood.
10 His mind turned to Gerty Farish's words, and the wisdom of the world seemed a groping thing beside the insight of innocence.
11 His faculties seemed tranced, and he was still groping for the word to break the spell.
12 Cautiously we went back to the snake; he was still groping with his tail, turning up his ugly belly in the light.
13 He was gone away himself, stumbling through the shadows, and groping after the soul that had fled.
14 When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 15 And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE