Example Sentences

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Who, grown familiar with the sky, will grope Henceforward among groundlings?

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur

About the middle of it, if you will grope in the mud, you may or may not find the great Seal of England which James II there cast into the flood.

From On Something by Belloc, Hilaire

Through stubborn granite wall, tough porphyry, ringing quartz, and bedded gnarled gneiss, men will grope for the feathery, fairy veins of the yellow metal.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard

Light and color she may not miss; but wifehood, maternity, the touch of baby lips to her breast—these her soul will grope for in dumb maternal desire.

From Wayside Courtships by Garland, Hamlin

But, remember, that without faith you will grope in darkness through the world—faith in your friends—faith in your God—and I will add—faith in yourself.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee