1 Her lips, groping for his, swept over his face, and he held her fast in a rapture of surprise.
2 She could feel his small hands groping through the folds for her legs.
3 She had not known again till today that lightness, that glow of freedom; but now it was something more than a blind groping of the blood.
4 His mind turned to Gerty Farish's words, and the wisdom of the world seemed a groping thing beside the insight of innocence.
5 His faculties seemed tranced, and he was still groping for the word to break the spell.
6 Cautiously we went back to the snake; he was still groping with his tail, turning up his ugly belly in the light.
7 He was gone away himself, stumbling through the shadows, and groping after the soul that had fled.
8 When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 9 And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 10 Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful flashes, which had something painful in them, analogous to the changes on a blind face groping its way.
11 Then she felt the soft, groping, helplessly desirous hand touching her body, feeling for her face.
12 Then she quivered as she felt his hand groping softly, yet with queer thwarted clumsiness, among her clothing.
13 'It's as dark as the grave,' said the man, groping forward a few steps.
14 I entered it groping, for the change from light to blackness made spots of colour swim before me.
15 But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.