When she got a feeler from the two-year-old online auction business, she hadn't expected to be interested. From Wordnik.com. [Whitman's $139 million could turn Calif. race] Reference
When she first got a feeler from the two-year-old online auction business, she hadn't expected to be interested. From Wordnik.com. [Meg Whitman's $140 million could turn Calif. governor's vote] Reference
The battle of the preceding day had been a sort of "feeler" -- now the real struggle came. From Wordnik.com. [Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee] Reference
We send forward a "feeler," and the "feeler" reports back very promptly. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Every now and then they would send over a "feeler," to see how we were getting along. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
A short time after this, our battery had orders to fire a few rounds, as a sort of "feeler", and the enemy at once replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
Rice is the elected district attorney, not the elected "feeler". From Wordnik.com. [Simple Justice] Reference
At a flick of the "feeler", they back up and head in a new direction. From Wordnik.com. [MAKE Magazine] Reference
They'll come up and 'feeler' bite them; they'll let go after that one bite. From Wordnik.com. [KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports] Reference
That image alone - a White House "feeler" to "bosses in Dubai" is sci-fi fantastic. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
He threw out this last suggestion as a kind of feeler; and then suddenly made the plunge. From Wordnik.com. [North and South] Reference
"feeler" to find out how he stood on the temperance question. From Wordnik.com. [Continuous Vaudeville] Reference
Antennule: a small antennae or feeler-like process. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
In any case, Kate would not be caught by the feeler. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
It is now announced that it was intended as a feeler. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
I figure I got the feeler because I take "The Nation.". From Wordnik.com. [Of Rubber Hammers and Rubber Nails!] Reference
The most unusual feeler comes from a foreign government. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Mairson called the letter a 'feeler,' not an invitation. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Dershowitz: Jimmy Carter is a Liar: Former President Caught in Yet Another Lie] Reference
Palmula: = pulvillus; q.v. Palp: a mouth feeler or palpus. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
She says that this is called the 'shrimp-feeler'-bracelet. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
A brain cell pulses its way out of the vacuum like a feeler. From Wordnik.com. [Something Better Than This] Reference
And then them little feeler tips, I got up a patent on them. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Geddes Elam Dodson, May 26, 1980. Interview H-0240. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
But the session does have the signs of a cabinet post feeler. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2008] Reference
He dropped to his hands and knees and was free of the invisible feeler!. From Wordnik.com. [The Whispering Spheres] Reference
I have had not a single feeler for any job in the Obama administration. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2009] Reference
A few days later Gustavus put out a feeler to his Cabinet in the south of. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Freda was sure this question was a feeler, and she answered carelessly. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Final operation - the clearance of 0.1 mm is to be tested with a feeler gauge. From Wordnik.com. [4. Fitting Works on Plane and Curved Surfaces] Reference
The latest Pollard feeler first arose Monday on the Israeli Army radio station. From Wordnik.com. [White House, CIA ignore reported Pollard gambit] Reference
I could do a better job than you, with three legs and one feeler tied behind me. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
"Not one feeler shall she put outside her cell until that swarm is out of sight.". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Farmyard People] Reference
At the same time he wondered why there had not been a single shot fired first as a feeler. From Wordnik.com. [Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold] Reference
Twenty minutes later that mare was put to rest, and a dainty feeler went out from Mahmoud. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
He rejected the feeler because he liked working at Carlyle, a knowledgeable person said then. From Wordnik.com. [GM's New CEO Pushes for Results] Reference
Hanoi sent another peace feeler out, I don't know whether they tell you about things like that. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
About five weeks prior to the Pope's proposition, the Germans had again put forth a peace feeler. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
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