rummage out

British  

verb

1. (tr) to find by searching vigorously; turn out

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Example Sentences

With guile Odysseus drew away, then said: “A pity that you have more looks than heart. You’d grudge a pinch of salt from your own larder to your own handy man. You sit here, fat on others’ meat, and cannot bring yourself to rummage out a crust of bread for me!”

From Literature

“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 Project Gutenberg

Get into these while I go and rummage out some supper.

From Project Gutenberg

We not only rummage out old Jacob Rank on his desert island, or whatever it may be, and rescue him, but we find a heap of pearls, a mighty lot of good shells, the best black pearl ever hauled out on the northern coast, and to cap all, we have a deal with that old shark, Silas Filey, that licks creation.

From Project Gutenberg

So saying, he unslung a sack from his metallic shoulder and began to rummage out length upon length of what looked like red silk ribbon with a curious metallic lustre.

From Project Gutenberg