rummage out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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For in it you shall appear, if I rummage out some of your old pleasant letters for rhymes.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
“I must have been dreaming,” he said to himself, as he went upstairs to rummage out the towels aforesaid, and anything else that his new-found guest would be likely to need.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
Get into these while I go and rummage out some supper.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
Then I company, with full cartridge belts, took up the advance-guard work along the road, and we saw them rummage out of a barn some cavalrymen who had hidden there.
From At Plattsburg by French, Allen
It took some time to rummage out the muff, for Nursey had tucked it far back on the shelf behind other things.
From Nine Little Goslings by Coolidge, Susan
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