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On nights and weekends, he has groped his way along through failures and setbacks sharp enough to make him nearly weep.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2015

In doing so it has grasped at the very roots of life itself, has groped down to the depths where the "life-force," the �lan vital, touches our individual being.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile

To the west, away from the river, the town has groped beyond a prairie frontier that had once been sacred to boyish games and the family cow.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon

Through countless years he has groped and crawled and struggled and climbed and stumbled toward the light.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green