In the ashen, unnatural light from the snow the long fingers of the hand were like the feelers of a gigantic reptile.

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

He could feel the pressure of its feelers around his waist, growing closer and more ferocious.

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.

There are two sensitive feelers in front of his head; and behind these are two short stalks, on each of which is a tiny eye.

The two may be in their origin related, and they occasionally, as it were, stretch out feelers towards one another, but the pastoral of tradition lies in its essence as far from the human document of humble life as from a scientific treatise on agriculture or a volume of pastoral theology.

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

The starfish were magnificent, of many colors, and one with fifteen arms covered with sharp, gray spines, and underneath pale yellow, fleshy feelers with suckers like a sea-anemone.

Suddenly one day the suspicion awoke in her mind, that the reason why they asked her no questions, put out no feelers after discovery concerning her, must be that Dorothy had told them every thing: if it was, never again would she utter word good or bad to one whose very kindness, she said to herself, was betrayal!

The smaller red champion had fastened himself like a vice to his adversary's front, and through all the tumblings on that field never for an instant ceased to gnaw at one of his feelers near the root, having already caused the other to go by the board; while the stronger black one dashed him from side to side, and, as I saw on looking nearer, had already divested him of several of his members.

Johnny crept along the edge of the clock and holding the two feelers over his back looked from his hiding place....

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.