RUMMAGE in Classic Quotes

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1  I suppose that's what you are rummaging after among my things.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
2  To begin at the beginning, Mrs. Kirke called to me one day as I passed Mr. Bhaer's room where she was rummaging.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
3  But he did not write the letter that day, for as he rummaged out his best paper, he came across something which changed his purpose.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
4  Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
5  After a grand rummage three of the missing articles were found, one over the bird cage, one covered with ink, and a third burned brown, having been used as a holder.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
6  "Excellently well, we will haf it," answered the Professor, smiling to himself as he paid for it, while Jo continued to rummage the counters like a confirmed bargain-hunter.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
7  Presently Beth and Amy woke to rummage and find their little books also, one dove-colored, the other blue, and all sat looking at and talking about them, while the east grew rosy with the coming day.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
8  Beth began by rummaging everything out of the big closet where her family resided, but getting tired before half done, she left her establishment topsy-turvy and went to her music, rejoicing that she had no dishes to wash.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN