I think you threw out a feeler about his money affairs, whether he had anything to worry about was your phrase, wasn't it?

" Another feeler turned aside.

Two years since, the sons sold it to Peter Feeler for a hundred an acre; or for the total sum of five thousand dollars.

The next spring Mr. Feeler sold it to John Search, as keen a one as we have, for twenty-five thousand.

The recent letter of Lord Lansdowne, urging a peace with German imperialism, was but a feeler from the pacifist side of this most un-English, and unhappily most influential, section of our public life.

Each feeler can be moved from side to side, and can also be tucked away, out of sight and out of danger; but, when hungry, the animal spreads them widely, for, as we shall see, they are the net in which it catches its dinner.

It has seemed to me sometimes as though I could see men hardening before my eyes, drawing in a feeler here, walling up an opening there.

What a wonderful seer, hearer, smeller, taster, feeler, he must have beenand how, all the time, his mind must have played upon the gatherings of his senses!

The terror had stretched out, so to speak, a first tentative feeler toward us and had touched the hearts of each with a horrid directness.

[Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus^. V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.

[Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus^. V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.

questioning &c v.; interrogation, interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy^; leading question; discussion &c (reasoning)

feeler; trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw to show the wind.

; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, t=atonner, aller =a t=atons [Fr.], put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out

; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, t=atonner, aller =a t=atons [Fr.], put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out

I told him at the same time that a Russian ship was going at the charge of the Russian Government to India, Swan River, and China as a commercial feeler.

*, and set a dog upon a crab's leg that was shoved out under a moss of sea weeds, a pretty little feeler.

It was only a feeler, and he had noticed a wince of regret in his landlord.

I can follow like a lamb, but I've got to have that feeler first.

We have epicures as well as had our ancestors; and the wonted fires of Apicius and Sardanapalus may still live in St. James's-street and Waterloo-place; but commend us to the board, where each guest, like a true feeler, brings half the entertainment along with him.

The most persistent setter of questions, feeler of objections, insister on satisfactions, is the religious life.

How, I asked, can one and the same identical content of experience, of which on idealist principles the esse is to be felt, be felt so diversely if itself be the only feeler?

I had returned to the West; and while there, wandering in various places, I went to a small town, hardly more than a hamlet, some few hundred miles beyond the Missouri, where the mighty railroad, putting out a long feeler for the future, had halted its great steel branchsinking like a thunderbolt into the ground for no imaginable reason, and affecting me vaguely with a sense of utmost limits.

He had made the remark as a skillful feeler, and was mortified at my father's ready acquiescence in his plans.

" The more the boatman talked and made queer jokes, the more I wanted to ask him his name; and I hoped he would say David Llewellyn, or at least David, and as a sort of feeler I asked him if he had ever seen a coracle.