fumble
verb (used without object)
to feel or grope about clumsily.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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No; some one has removed the box from its usual place, and I am fumbling about at random, and smashing things indiscriminately.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson