1109 examples of grope in sentences

Sometimes a "fielder," whose sense of feelin' wasen't very acute, got hold of a cobble stun, then he would waddle, and grope his way about, to find the base.

And may the blessed sunlight, the symbol of my hope, Wither these orbs and leave me in eternal night to grope!"

The old Gate-Warden could have told thee all, My husband, and the watchers from the wall; It was not once they took me, with the rope Tied, and this body swung in the air, to grope Its way toward thee, from that dim battlement.

Kurt got up to grope his way through the murky darkness.

Not only do the internal secretions open up before us the great hopethat Life at last will cease to stumble and grope and blunder, manacled by the iron chains of inexorable cause and effect.

Their singing recalled to her mind the memory of beautiful things, as music always does; and then she remembered that through their whole lives these children must grope in darkness.

She paused, seemed to grope for words, stopped, and suddenly a bewildered look came into her face.

In youth, before I waxed old, The blynd boy, Venus baby, For want of cunning, made me bold In bitter hyve to grope for honny:

grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among eggs.

They were deafened, and some of them could not see but had to grope their way.

We set about collecting sticks and what roots of grass we could find, but on the sand-flats everything was wet, and it was so dark that we had to grope about on our hands and knees, and pick up whatever we came across.

All last night I walked in a realm of such golden splendor, that I think even in our fullest noon I shall only see enough light to grope by for days and days.

" The caretaker set the lamp down on the floor and proceeded to grope about for the projectile, in which operation we both assisted; and I could not suppress a faint smile as I noted the earnestness with which Thorndyke peered about the floor in search of the missile that was quietly reposing in his waistcoat pocket.

"We'll tell you that presently," replied one of the men, who had by this time begun to grope about my person, as if searching for something.

He knew what this Self within him was; he knew how it had forced him to grope his way up, to give this hungry, insatiate soul air and freedom and knowledge.

The hand of dawn is on the door That seals the dolorous arch of night; Dim gardens and hushed groves once more Dream of the half-forgotten light; Yet all the ancient fires are cold On altars battered and forlorn, And men grope still for gauds of gold, Oblivious of the imminent morn.

Four plants of the temperate zone; a grope approaching, unaware, a clinch in hiding; creatures of the meadow.

Four plants of the Temperate Zone: a grope approaching, unaware, a clinch in hiding, creatures of the meadow; series of drawings.

The awkwardness, therefore, must be overcome of having to reach or grope after it before the slate can be turned over, which it must be in order to enable the Medium to read the question on the under side.

In cities, it reveals the ragged and smutty companionship of tumble-down out-houses, and mysteries of cellar and back-kitchen life which were never intended for other eyes than those that grope in them by day or night.

Give back the Babylon where I was born, The lips that gape give back, the hands that grope, And noise and blood and suffocating scorn An eddy of fierce facesand a hope That 'mid those myriad heads one head find place, With brown hair curled like breakers of the sea,

Again, Manx maids bandage their eyes and grope about the room till they dip their hands in vessels full of clean or dirty water, and so on; and from the thing they touch they draw corresponding omens.

He trembled, and was so uncertain, as he attempted to grope forward, that West grasped him firmly, helping him slowly toward the foot of the steps.

Along with him he must grope up and down slippery steps, and along dark alleys, bearing the Host under a red umbrella, until he had placed it within the dying lips.

Her anxieties therefore were many, and it was with lively expectation that she watched the 'swells' grope their way upstairs to Mr. Fenwick's room.

1109 examples of  grope  in sentences