How do I work? I grope. From LearnThat.org. [Albert Einstein (1879-1955).]
But let me make one comment about what's just happened in response to what you called grope-gate, Larry. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2003] Reference
It quickly necessitated figuring out how to "grope" myself discretely in public!. From Wordnik.com. [Walking the walk, talking the talk: Security of mind] Reference
Later in his car while laughing about the incident, I felt safe to "grope" myself and repay my debt. From Wordnik.com. [Walking the walk, talking the talk: Security of mind] Reference
But more importantly, this brings up the age old question of when does a "rub up" become a "grope"?. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.BarstoolSports.com] Reference
But these little ones grope in a kind of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference
But only now has it become a global group grope. "". From Wordnik.com. [Genuflect Journalism] Reference
With the foe shall I grapple, and grope for the life. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
White House spinners began to grope for countermeasures. From Wordnik.com. [Extracting A Confession] Reference
It wrung Mrs. Morton's heart to see him grope to find her. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
She got up to grope for a candle on the shelf over the fireplace. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
However, it was a comfort not to have to grope about in total darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
As she made her way down the hall, she felt a hand reach up and grope her. From Wordnik.com. [Anchors Aweigh] Reference
There was a noise behind her, and Phyllis felt a man's hand grope for hers. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
I had an urge to text him but I didn't want to grope my nightstand for my phone. From Wordnik.com. [Agitated Birds] Reference
I'd rather fall down and pick myself up a dozen times a day, than thus grope my way along. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Is there anyone who would rather grope through card catalogs in the library to find a book?. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Multimedia Debate] Reference
A media consultant who helped draft Gore's announcement speech in June recalled a group grope. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference
Men had to grope in the twilight for centuries, until at length the illumination dawned on a few souls. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
Power adjustable steering column: No need to grope beneath the steering column and pry loose a stiff lever. From Wordnik.com. [Driving with an injury: Features that can ease the pain] Reference
A big knob might be 100-year-old technology, but you can also grope for it without looking away from the road. From Wordnik.com. [2010 CES: MyFord, Oh My!] Reference
They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
When Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews visited last week, he had to grope for words to describe what he had seen. From Wordnik.com. [In The Grip Of 'The Poor Man's War'] Reference
Moving through the crowds, Americans, Swedes and Australians grope the throngs -- and thongs -- of Thai prostitutes. From Wordnik.com. [Books: The Great Provocateur] Reference
He'd extend his left hand, and we would grope a bit, obliquely, cater-cornered, as if we were about to begin a minuet. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Love Dole] Reference
Several times as he pondered over it, Tom lost the thread of Mr. Beecham's remarks, and had to grope for the right answers. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
We were compelled to grope our way through forests, across mountains, with a large army, necessarily more or less dispersed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Future historians needn't grope for a defining moment in which East-West cooperation gave way to renewed rivalry and mistrust. From Wordnik.com. ['Plunging Into A Cold Peace'] Reference
There, tumult reigns as bosses used to giving orders and workers trained to follow them grope toward a new style of management. From Wordnik.com. [Playing With Fire] Reference
(The temple is a tourist hot spot where throngs line up to descend into a pitch-black tunnel and grope for spiritual salvation.). From Wordnik.com. [Festival Of Youth] Reference
"This will remind me -- a positive control check is never redundant," he says calmly, as mechanics grope around in the machine's innards. From Wordnik.com. [Up, Up And Away] Reference
He that loveth his son, frequently chastiseth him, that he may rejoice in his latter end, and not grope after the doors of his neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
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