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verb

Grope v. t.

To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.

To examine; to test; to sound. (Obs.) "Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe."

Grope v. i. (past & past part. groped; pres. part. groping)

To feel with or use the hands; to handle. (Obs.)

To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. "We grope for the wall like the blind." "To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life."

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"Grope" Quotes from Famous Books

... situation,—and Theos, blind, giddy, and confused, listened to the uproar around him with something of the affrighted compassion that a stranger in Hell might be supposed to feel when hearkening to the ceaseless plaints of the self-tortured wicked. He endeavored to grope his way to Sah-luma's side,—and just then lights appeared, . . lights that were not of earth's kindling, . . strange, wandering flames that danced and flitted along the tapestried walls like will-o'-the- wisps ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... cause of all unprofitable forgetfulness. Do not allow your attention to grope vaguely among a number of things. Whatever you do, make a business of doing it with your whole soul. Turn the spotlight of your mind upon it, and you will not ...

— The Trained Memory • Warren Hilton

... every one was very ignorant of the work to be done in establishing a telegraph across the ocean. Submarine telegraphy was in its infancy, and aerial telegraphy had scarcely outgrown its swaddling-clothes. We had to grope our way in the dark. It was only by repeated experiments and repeated failures that we were able to find out all the ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

... as elemental and ethereal—or might one not almost say, atmospheric? That is, though generated of flesh and blood, they are not altogether flesh and blood, but possess other untested and unproved essences mingled in their composition, of which as yet we can form no idea. We grope in utter ignorance of the greatest of mysteries—Life!—and with all our modern advancement, we are utterly unable to measure or to account for life's many and various manifestations. In the very early days of imaginative ...

— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli

... crew, with such hideous screeches as startled the whole neighbourhood. He gave one last desperate lunge as a parting remembrance, and felt that his weapon had made a hit. Something fell on the floor, but the light was extinguished in the scuffle, and in vain he attempted to grope out ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

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