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

It was a devil-fish stretching out its feelers.

In the years during which the Chinese armies were fighting in the Ili region, the Russians were putting out their feelers in that direction, and the Chinese annals show plainly how the Russians intervened in the fighting with the Kalmuks and Kazaks.

But it is the heart, left shaken, unsupported, wretchedly sinking, which reaches out its feelers for sympathy, catches at the first penetrable point, and clings like a helpless vine to the sunny-sided wall of the nearest consolation.

How does the Anemone expand its "feelers"? 2.

Holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, I saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore-leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breast-plate was apparently too thick for him to pierce; and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer's eyes shone with ferocity such as war only could excite.

We had no idea at the time, that at every one of these farther points other centres were being formed that also, in their own time and way, struck out feelers and shafts, and thus became part of that great system of creative force, which, still acting on its central and original idea of a larger unity, brought together the General Federation.

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

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

Some are swaying about in the still, clear water, moving their long feelers from side to side.