Pulling myself together, I groped for the door, and, having found it, made my way upstairs, stumbling at each step.

" "Ah! the goddess of the owls; but, as they see light only in darkness, I fear you groped in blackness.

I groped about, for a few moments, blindly; then my hands lit upon them, and I struck a light, and looked confusedly around.

He told them that it was not about this land, or anything that happened in it, which they knew as he did, but that it was a story of the old time, when men were walking in darkness, and when no one knew the true meaning even of what he himself did, but had to go on as if blindly, stumbling and groping with their hands.

As he groped through the pitch-dark room he could feel many articles of furniture.

In earlier days they had always yielded to him who no longer met with them a certain chieftainship, and they still thought of him and talked of him, and, in their conjectures, groped after him, as one of whom they continued to expect greater things than of themselves.

We seemed to take a long time groping along seeking this; the squash of the wet soil under our feet was the only thing that marked our progress.

I had no desire to go back and grope among the mysteries and anguish so suddenly revealed.

She entered with a stealth that was well under cover of those voices, groping into the first door at her right, feeling round for the wall key, switching the old rose-and-gold room into immediate light.

Pushing open Sarah's door very gently, she groped on the hooks behind it for her hat.

My father looked at me almost admiringly, and his hand, that had been fingering the lace, groped toward an empty bottle.

He had nothing now for it but flight; and in order to guard himself against the contingency of being surprised from the door opening upon the corridor, he bolted it; then groped under the murdered man's pillow for the booty which had so fatally fascinated his imagination.

I surveyed them both critically, but the one nearest to me having the netting arranged for entrance, I selected it, and setting the lamp upon the dresser, extinguished it, groped to the bed in darkness, and lay down upon the coverless sheet.

And she heard him move at her feet and grope over the rock with his hands; but it was smooth as snow with no holding, and slippery as ice.

"And you believed him?" inquired Mon, dimly groping at the meaning of the smile.

Dull-witted as he was, the Sergeant seemed to catch a glimmer of light, and mentally groped towards it.

No sandbags to spare, of course, so the question was, "What shall we make a parapet of?" We plodded off back to the village and groped around the ruins for something solid and high enough to carry the gun.

The oak-saplings rubbed their old leaves one on another, as folks rub their hands, feeling life and warmth; the chestnut-buds groped like an infant's fingers; and the chorus broke out again, the thrush leading"Tiurru, tiurru, chippewee; tio-tee, tio-tee; queen, queen, que-een!"

But we are left to grope as blind sheep; there is no one to point out the path to us, however dimly; no one to say, at any crucial moment of our lives, Walk here!

Kieff, who had been present with Guy, followed her almost immediately to her own room, and found her with a deathly face groping against the wall as one stricken blind.

How dared she enter the house that was his while he was still groping without?

But, nothing daunted, we groped amid the darkness until we came upon the buggy of the Presiding Elder, which fortunately had been landed from the same boat.

We accordingly started to ascend the cone, which vomited fire and smoke, taking care to place ourselves on the windward side in ascending, and after much fatigue we arrived in about fifteen minutes close to the apex of the cone, after groping amidst the ashes and stumbling on a vein of red hot cinders.

So saying, Sir Pertolepe stumbled forward a pace, groping before him like a blind man, then, groaning, fell, and lay a'swoon, his bloody face hidden in the grass.

He groped behind him, found the door, and slammed it shut.