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Gropingly

adverb
1.
In an uncertain groping manner.






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"Gropingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... gropingly, feebly, for the old paths, and the good Spirit was all the time leading her back to the light. I can not retrace for you all the way that she came. I only know that gradually, surely, the night wore away, and the Sun of peace shone upon her soul. She went to the church, where ...
— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various

... Sweden he turned his eyes on Livonia—on Narva and Riga. But Livonia was so well defended that he was driven northward, toward Ingria. He moved thither grudgingly, sending, in the first instance, Apraxin, who turned the easily conquered province into a desert. It was not for some time, and gropingly, as it were, that the young sovereign began to see his way, and finally turned his attention and his longings to the mouth of the Neva. In former years Gustavus Adolphus had realized the strategical importance of a position which his successor, Charles XII, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson



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