They rummaged through their pockets, and when they counted all that they possessed between them, it only amounted to thirty francs.
That was the chief occupation of criticism just then: when they had ransacked the houses of great men, rummaged through the closets, turned out the drawers, ransacked the cupboards, they burrowed down to their inmost lives.
And with that Frau Babi raised the cover of an old chest and rummaged about for garments suitable for a young peasant girl's wear.
At this Richard rummaged in the drawer of his writing-desk and produced a bundle of letters, whose delicate tint and perfume betrayed their probable nature.
Each girl carried off her treasures and Nan set out for Uplands, but, before she had gone far, she came rushing back, rummaged for paper and pencil and started forth again wearing what was called the family cloak.
The two youths dragged their guns from beneath the thwarts of the boat, and rummaged about in great anxiety for shot-belts and powder-horns.
Those people are all divines, and where could they have rummaged up these things?
Then he seemed suddenly to recollect hisself, and called for his clothes, and rummaged in the pockets as if looking for some address, and could not find it.
Audley, (who does not seem to like the notion of having his thoughts and sensations rummaged even by his friend, and even in fancy.
In his pockets he rummaged again, those pockets which always held just the right thing.
Yet he must have come, tonight, into this house and spoken--he rummaged desperately in his mind for some fragments of the trailmen's language.
Here she rummaged a moment or so, and then extracted a bundle of letters, which she hurriedly secreted behind a loosened brick beside a simulated fireplace.
Nathalie returned the letter to the envelope, and then rummaged under a pile of kits that had been filled and fastened, ready for the boys at camp, until she found one way down beneath the pile.
My dear Miss Good, I have rummagedhalf the state, looking for you.
Hastily he rummaged through one of his bags, and from a collection of trinkets, souvenirs, and the like he selected an object which he examined carefully, then took into the bathroom for further experiment.
The woman came to the bed, and took the child; and Avdyeitch rose, went to the partition, rummaged round, and succeeded in finding an old coat.
He remained on one side, waiting while they rummaged in the untidy drawers without being able to place their hands on the required papers.
He had come down from the first floor, and eagerly rummaged a cupboard for a few dry biscuits, which he laid upon a plate.
Quite desperately he rummaged his brain for some sane-sounding expression of understanding and sympathy.
But before we retired, the two ladies rummaged up, out of the recesses of their memory, such horrid stories of robbery and murder that I quite quaked in my shoes.
They rummagedabout the room, evidently in search for weapons they thought I might have secreted.
They had rummagedthe boat thoroughly, but evidently the men had taken all their supplies ashore with them, for nothing was in the boat.
Then the Captain hurried away a second time and rummaged about, high and low, and left no place whereinto he did not pry and spy, yet he came upon no one.
Going to the house of the lieutenant, they broke open the door, and rummaged it and the village, finding a booty more valuable to us in our present situation than gold or silver.
We careened our ship and rummaged our prize in the Bay of Sardinas, and watered at one of the fresh-water rivers, which was as white as milk, and both smelt and tasted very strong of musk, occasioned by many alligators swimming in it.
But he rummaged out an old paper-covered guide to the Peak, which he remembered to have been left at the farm one summer's day by a passing tourist, who paid Hannah handsomely for some bread and cheese.
The goodhearted boy, thereupon, in his hurry to offer the Franc-Taupin the little presents he brought him from Italy, rummaged in his valise for the flask of Imola wine and the dagger that he himself forged for him.
I wish to goodness I had rummagedher boxes before she carried them off.
Bruce resumed his seat, and did not stir until the detective had completely rummaged the cabinet.
Kitty frantically rummaged the house, the shops, the stores of her friends, and rummagedin vain.
While the dogs were gulping down their food, the boys rummaged through Charley's gear until they found a heavy wool shirt that the Indian had recently worn.
Just what I had in mind," Jerry called to him as he rummagedthrough the packs on the sled.
He rummaged through the packs on the front of the sled.
Cesare rummaged till he had found a certain concealed sketch-book which he showed to me.
But though she rummaged every corner to find somewhat to exchange with me for them, it evidently did not even enter her thoughts to offer me the boots.
His house was haunted by a jolly ghost That rummaged like a rat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rummaged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
