At the first moan, Joyce had wakened, and realizing that it came from Mary's corner of the room, began to gropeon the table beside her bed for matches.
Straitly shut up, they grope blindfolded round the walls of their prison-house, wistfully turning their eyes to any ray of light that strikes in through its crevices.
It was nearly nine o'clock, and Sedan no longer wore the forbidding, funereal aspect of the morning, when it awoke to grope and shudder amid the despair and gloom of its black fog.
He opened his eyes again, and began to feebly grope about him with his stiffening fingers, as if feeling for a covering that was not there, pulling at it with a gentle, continuous movement, as if to draw it up around his shoulders.
There was no light in the passage and on the staircase, however, and he had to grope his way up as best he might.
He flung it from him, and began with a new haste togrope and fumble for his pistol.
He was neither stunned nor bruised, and he began to grope about for the pistol which in the sudden descent had been knocked from his hand.
We soon recovered, but had to grope for each other.
He knew what this Self within him was; he knew how it had forced him to grope his way up, to give this hungry, insatiate soul air and freedom and knowledge.
The ladders and passages she passed down were on the inside, narrow and dimly lighted: she had to grope her way sometimes.
Hands soon to sway the financial sceptre, either mix the dulcet cocktail, swing the pick, or else light with the miner's candle the Aladdin caves to which they grope and burrow in daily danger, deep hidden from public view.
Through stubborn granite wall, tough porphyry, ringing quartz, and bedded gnarled gneiss, men will grope for the feathery, fairy veins of the yellow metal.
We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
He knew how much he could not do, nor was he ever confident even of the things that he could do; and these things, therefore, he did superlatively well, having to gropefor the means in the recesses of his soul.
Yes," said he, "I recollect before she was married trying togrope her, and she nearly knocked me over.
She opened her thighs wide, she let megrope and smell, and kiss, and see.
As I grew better my randiness returned, I got hold of gay women, but my old timidity clung to me, I used to pay them to piss, and had a gropeup them; but do not recollect having anything more.
Just before entering London is another tunnel, I had another grope at her warm quim, and arranged my clothes.
The vision of prophecy illumines my mind, and where men of common souls, unenlightened by Divine grace, grope on in the dark, like blind moles, all before me is clear and light.
They had thrown down the gun, and I was compelled to stoop down and grope about for it in the undergrowth.
That being so, they were not left to grope in the dark.
Brother, it is possible to grope at noontide as in the dark, and in all the blaze of Christ's revelation still to be left in the Cimmerian folds of midnight gloom.
Riccabocca, valuing himself on his profound acquaintance with character, and Randal Leslie, accustomed to grope into every hole and corner of thought and action, wherefrom to extract that knowledge which is power!
Again Donat replaced it, examining the hen-house thoroughly and finding it quite perfect; as he was so engaged the wind puffed out his light, and he mustgrope back to the door a good deal shaken.
Only the police themselves go darkling, and gropein the night for misdemeanants.
Between these extreme factions stood the bulk of the membership, listening bewildered, trying to grope their way through the labyrinth.
Jimmie had to grope this way and that, and he ran a piece of broken branch into his cheek, and by that time was almost ready to cry with fright.
By night One may go back again, and grope below, And, while the horizon shuts the day from sight, Wander about the hillside to and fro.
We no longer gropein the darkness of the middle ages.
Yet so exactly had they taken their bearings, that they could almost grope over the ground with their hands.
But when he came to cross the sea, he had to grope his way almost blindly.
I was simply determined to be utterly open with him, even though I seemed to myself like the dark picture of a man in a bog struggling to grope his way out.
I grope on and on, and--the kindness only makes it worse.
I can only grope my way now through vague and baffling memories.
See, how all of the music is lost and the lights are low, And how, as our idle arms, these twin ineloquent towers Grope up through the old inaccessible Night to His stars!
He could not do this if he were compelled togrope in darkness.
He seldom addressed Lilly; but his piercing eyes often glided over her face, as if to spy upon her feelings and grope about in her soul.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agonize; doubt; feel; flounder; fumble; grope; prod; question; wonder
