"Gropingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... answer. He heard Pale Face Harry call out behind him; in a subconscious, mazed way, he sensed the other following him, gropingly, hesitantly, for a few yards, then ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... She raised her eyes, blurred with tears, and held out her hand gropingly, as one searches in the dark, for the room whirled like a storm cloud, and just faintly she could see the man's strong face coming to her out of the gloom like the face of a god. He took her hand. "Good-bye," his voice vibrated brokenly; "if—if Justice wills that my innocence ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... she felt the hands gropingly upon her. It came from the back side of her bed, reaching apparently from the very wall. And then she heard a voice whispering, "Be still—I do not ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... gown—seek a blessing from the wrinkled hands on the keys. Spring was about him—white clouds and blossoms and the smell of fresh earth. "By the waters, the waters of Babylon; by the waters." The slender, delicate hands called out the notes one by one. Tears ran down the boy's face. Gropingly he felt for the door—only to seek a blessing ...
— Unfinished Portraits - Stories of Musicians and Artists • Jennette Lee
... when gropingly located, proved equally obdurate; she fumbled doggedly until back and limbs ached with the strain of her position; but her fingers lacked cunning to solve the secret; and in the end, when on the point of ...
— Nobody • Louis Joseph Vance
... despises me.' And in a louder voice he demanded, not of Rose Mallett, but of the mysterious world in which he gropingly existed, 'Why ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... shaking, in the center of the room. Then he reached for a chair, gropingly, and sat down. He passed one moist, flabby hand over his forehead and it came away wet. The telephone rang. He sat still, it sounded far away and unimportant, like something forgotten. I think he did not even hear it with his conscious ear. But it rang and rang insistently. ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... voice he put out his hand to her, gropingly, but he did not uncover his face or shift his position. She found herself smoothing his hair, gingerly at first, but with more and more conviction as he snuggled ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley |
