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1. I grope in my handbag for the information which the agency sent me about the job … reading through the job description again … personal assistant to the sales director – all usual computer skills, office practices etc - no problems there
2. Second try, I succeed in opening it and grope around inside for the stone
3. I wake up and stare at the ceiling of my bedroom at the flat feeling lousy and wishing I were dead … for the millionth time I go over in my head the events of last night … everything had been going so well … where had that blazing row materialised from? I grope under my pillow for tissues as I remember how, in a furious temper, I had screamed at Dave that I wasn’t going to stay another minute in his house … and he yelled back that, in that case, I had better bugger off
4. daytime’s, and grope at the
5. He held his hand in front of him and after he had gone twenty paces began to actively grope for the wall
6. He began to grope with his foot for the next lower rung, when the fat man he’d left above swung down his arm and grabbed Edgar by the hair
7. Junya maintained a stern expression, as he continued to grope
8. There were the nubile whose thighs he would grope while teaching them to play the Tala
9. When all remained quiet, she started to grope around her with outstretched hands
10. You grope sediment with your toes tossing clouds into the current
11. where I will wait until someone starts to try and grope me
12. Freddie watched as they walked almost zombie like to the group of men who immediately grabbed the girls and began to grope them
13. They bundled the boy into the back seat between the two girls who he tried to grope until they hit him hard enough that he stopped
14. claims that she saw ‘him’ grope her
15. even shake hands with a non-related woman, let-alone grope her
16. She barely had time to reach out her hand and grope for the towel to put a gag between her teeth so that she would not let out the cat howls that were already tearing at her insides
17. If the holding progresses from the unfriendly grope to that of a
18. those that stumble and grope for truth
19. Hence they grope in darkness
20. grope about in the dark alleys of neither levels
21. The principle is that sex is a private matter and if no one is harmed and consensual adults are involved, there is no role for government and no public policy issues over which to grapple (or grope)
22. Hands would grope and unspeakable abominations would occur
23. But again he had to pause and grope
24. How kind of you," she said, smiling up at him--immediately, however, adding with a sort of inquiry, as she saw his expression and felt the half-hearted hold on her hands, "Perry?"--as if she suddenly wasn't quite sure of her way, and had to grope a little
25. And there, with only sheep looking at her, and Muriel Hyslup, she hoped, to give her a helping hand, she would grope till she found something decent to do with the rest of her life, so that at least she needn't die blushing
26. without having to grope about too much
27. For she did grope
28. The dark little passage; one almost had to grope one's way along it when the front door was shut
29. But that appeared lost in darkness, to grope
30. He had to literally will his limbs to move, to push himself up out of the chair and grope for the rear door handle
31. would find ME by now, but you grope in the dark and your loss will
32. The God who made the WORLD (kosmos) and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and EARTH (gee), does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the EARTH (gee), having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children
33. Consequently, I had begun to grope my way when suddenly I saw the glow of an intense white light
34. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it
35. As for fay Elizabeth, otherwise carrotty Bess, the gross virgin who inspired The Merry Wives of Windsor, let some meinherr from Almany grope his life long for deephid meanings in the depths of the buckbasket
36. Ken was a jerk, but it wasn’t as though he’d exposed himself or tried to grope Maria in the hallway when they’d been at the conference
37. He did not doubt for one second that that doctor had done far worse than grope the wrong girlfriend
38. There was no one to fondle and grope her
39. I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it
40. It was like waiting to call a phone number someone had slipped in your pocket after a grope in a club
41. Her left elbow and forearm slid toward gravity, and she began to thrash and grope wildly beneath her
42. About the beast to grope
43. To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing
44. The pupil, who in life learns to grope through problems with small numbers, is conscious of the process of solving, and transfers this process to the problem with large numbers
45. The best we could do was to grope our way about with arms outstretched to feel just where we were
46. If gentlemen think this House never ought to express an opinion, but leave the President to grope in the dark as to our views, or get them through inofficial channels, I presume the previous question will be taken, or motion made that the resolution lie upon the table
47. It is asked, will you leave the President of the United States to grope in the dark, and not let him know whether he has received our approbation or not? And is the President to judge from the thanks of the House that he has done his duty? How is he to know that they have expressed their sense of his conduct from proper motives? Would he not be right to suspect those who vote for, and more especially those who bring forward such a proposition, of improper motives? He would be left still worse to grope in the dark
1. My hands groped their way blindly up his leg towards
2. “What do I call you, sir?” she asked as the weedy man groped her body with his shifting
3. Suffused with panic, Nerissa groped at the blanket
4. boot-lid and he groped where he couldn't see
5. Achhhhh! His stomach fought against it and began churning again and he groped desperately for the edge of the toilet bowl and heaved himself over the rim
6. She groped around the area, searching for a switch or button
7. The judge launched into a lecture on the rules while Maldynado groped for his helmet with a shaking hand
8. She groped for her boots
9. ” Maldynado’s mittened fingers flexed in the air as he groped for the word
10. He groped his way to her, and sitting down on a trunk, folded her into
11. Still panting and shuddering with reaction, I groped for the off button, and then I scrubbed my face with the heels of my hands
12. Beth held her breath against the pain and forced her torso from the table, groped her way around it and there, on the sidewalk with her back to a wall, sat Herminia
13. In rising panic, he groped and groped, but it just wasn’t there! He slapped at the figure nearest him, the doctor
14. “Put the rollers under,” an anonymous voice called, as willing hands groped in the murk
15. He groped around and found what he was looking for
16. Panic stabbed his heart, but as he stumbled up and out of bed, he groped his way to the bathroom for a drink of water, hoping against hope
17. I groped for the knife with my hand, careful to keep my eyes away
18. She remembered how blindly she had, in her agony, groped for the voices that had joined hers
19. He swallowed two aspirins and groped his way to the control room
20. With his hands he groped what was beside him
21. His right hand groped on the ground for his pistol
22. throat as he groped the wall for balance
23. She groped her way to the door and pushed it open, stumbling into the open air
24. They were often groped and fondled publicly and did not seem to be offended by it, nor would anyone leap to their defense
25. It was still the early hours of the morning I estimated as my hands groped the darkness for the harsh cold metal of my alarm clock
26. They all groped around the walls
27. He groped his way to the other side, noticing that the noise was becoming more pronounced as he moved
28. “Again and again I silently railed at the stupidity of it, and I could not understand why you would do such a futile and self-destructive thing! But finally, as I groped for understanding, I saw the value of altruism, and I was humbled
29. He squinted from the pain in his eyes and his free hand groped blindly
30. They groped their way along as they ascended the low ridge in the short interval between moonset and the earliest light of predawn
31. He groped his way to the other side, noticing that the noise was
32. He groped toward it
33. Some Saigon cowboy groped me and I backhanded him silly
34. pain in his eyes and his free hand groped blindly
35. They groped their way along as they ascended the low ridge in the short interval between
36. groped and abused her
37. Chris suddenly registered that he had just been groped by a beautiful transvestite
38. help you, to tel you what he saw and heard himself, when he groped for as he lived profoundly in quietude and
39. As I groped about for the banister, vomit would, at any given time, pass through my esophagus and escape out of my mouth
40. While Vidya groped in the dark for the right answers, guruji who returned by then, threw light on the tragedy of his family
41. He groped his way down in the blackness, feeling for, but not finding, some other opening in the walls
42. Stubbornly, his mind fixed on what the dying Khemsa had told him, the Cimmerian groped for the gold vein, and found that he had moved off it in his descent
43. There were several girls from the club who sat with the Arabs and the men groped at the girls and handed them bank notes by the dozen
44. The same routine followed inside as the Arabs groped at the dancing girls and made them perform all kinds of sex acts on them for bundles of cash
45. They swung in under the overhanging bushes of the western shore and Balthus groped for and found a projecting root which he grasped
46. Twisting his body half about, Balthus groped for him, his heart shooting into his throat
47. She groped on in leafy obscurity, not able to see either above or below her; but presently she glimpsed blue sky, and a moment later came out in the clear, hot sunlight and saw the forest roof stretching away under her feet
48. Half stunned by his fall, Conan rose and groped in the darkness
49. Yet the mad black eyes glared up at Conan with no dimming of their feral light, the lips writhed awfully, and the hands groped, as if searching for the severed head
50. With a sudden premonition he groped along the wall until he found the shelf that supported the brass lamp, with its flint, steel and tinder beside it
1. a blind force that gropes,
2. He gropes in a pocket and hands me a folded piece of paper … a cheque
3. “Where’s the niche?” he screams to himself, “Where’s the niche?” The dragon’s screeching and shrieking are deafening as he gropes The Perfect Prank
4. His playful butt-slaps in passing had, in the first instance been mildly amusing, being unused to such attention, but over time his growing familiarity had developed into full blown gropes
5. Pushing their way to the bar they attracted their share of gropes and strokes - the kiss of life if you’re single and on the prowl, a joke if you’re with your lover
6. Group gropes at the Murph
7. devoid of faith gropes about in the vicious maze of worldly life
8. And the low soul gropes the low;
9. Reagan still gropes for the words he will say, even as he steps up to the microphone
10. She gropes through a doorway into what? A hall? Out here the roar is fainter, barely a murmur
11. “Wait,” he says, gasping, and gropes among clothes for his inhaler
12. And he gropes ever to see me and my
13. Alas, my Pray’rs are all in vain, for he gropes his Way into the little Cave and strokes its moist Walls until he finds me!
14. great human and terrestrial journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress
15. Does he not say he will not strike his spars to any gale? Has he not dashed his heavenly quadrant? and in these same perilous seas, gropes he not his way by mere dead reckoning of the error-abounding log? and in this very Typhoon, did he not swear that he would have no lightning-rods? But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?—Yes, it would make him the wilful murderer of thirty men and more, if this ship come to any deadly harm; and come to deadly harm, my soul swears this ship will, if Ahab have his way
16. If he has not done it, and he wishes to reason on rights, duties, the beautiful, the State or any other of man's important interests, he gropes about and stumbles; he gets entangled in long, vague phrases, in sonorous common-places, in crabbed and abstract formulas
1. The sound of footsteps coming towards the kitchen rouses her and she frantically tries to pull herself together, groping in the pocket of her jeans for a tissue
2. I held my hand out, groping forward through the tears that filled my unbelieving eyes, desperate to feel the electricity of his form and field
3. ROBERT: After a considerable amount of kissing, touching and groping, you changed into this garment to convey to a man he should leave?
4. ’ He replied, groping in his bag and producing a couple of large potatoes
5. candles and, groping his way carefully towards the short
6. She caught herself groping around the inside of the cave mouth
7. “I mean,” Elenir restated in as calm a voice without accusing as she could manage, “it's becoming clearer and clearer that there is a Lascorii trail to follow here and we are groping in the dark!”
8. His hands groping for a hold something to hold but she is on him now he is inside her inside her moving, moving
9. Eric was ahead of him, already groping for the disconnected wire at the back of the laptop
10. ! Twitching! Groping! Hurting
11. They writhed, each groping for a devastating hold
12. Groping around with Sally, that one time in the back of the barn, on a hot summer’s day, when I got her top off, things like that
13. She was right there, slipping under his outstretched arm and blind eyes, groping to find the water controls
14. after the covering and groping
15. The man howled in pain and confusion, groping clumsily at his
16. Young lovers, along those young at heart, groping each other’s bodies under the protective shade of shared umbrellas, but Levi and I just looked, watched one another
17. around me, it was like being fondled by the proverbial octopus, his hands like groping
18. I was groping and came across some
19. The groping and the kisses
20. Perplexed, bothered, bewildered, and groping in the dark, Roger faced still another turning point in his life
21. I bet them hips of yours can do wonders” he said moving closer and groping my waist
22. He had no idea what was inside so he was groping with his hands
23. And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
24. A few of them were getting up again, reassembling, bony hands groping for their weapons
25. Lot took his wife and two daughters and walk through the groping crowd out through the city gate
26. Dinner was a decadent affair of a dozen courses around an immense, candlelit table glittering with crystal and silver, during which the maids and I endured groping from both sexes
27. Cruising for casual sex was subtle and omnipresent… a sly smile in shops, a wink and turn of the head on the street, the accidental touch of a hand on the bus, the not so subtle groping among crotchless trousers, business suits and fashion plates in the meat markets of gay pubs where patrons chattered to their ‘in’ group, eyeing outsiders and prospective partners with practised disdain, then hovering alone on the footpath after closing time having rejected one suitor too many
28. I was still groping and groping until finally, the elusive banana leaf found my hand and I could tear it without delay
29. gained a sitting position, there was a groping darkness
30. But if you are still trying, out of sheer desperation or whatever, then if your partner rejects you for sex – do something totally different, try and understand why your partner doesn’t want to have sex there and then, put yourself in her shoes, cuddle her instead (no groping though please) and don’t, whatever you do, close down
31. Just before he could get the bartender’s attention, Chris felt a gentle groping at his crotch and recoiled quickly
32. These crimes can range from sexual groping or assault/battery, to attempted rape
33. Groping: touching or fondling of another person in a sexual way (including through clothing) using the hands, without that other person's consent
34. I kissed him back and had to stop his hands from groping my ass
35. I kissed her wildly; my hands were groping her body and Lily’s moans only heated my passion
36. This distortion did not end, and neither did my groping, until I found myself tumbling down the steps, which is when I became unconscious
37. My mind went on groping for the watch, and I could feel time advancing slowly inside my pocket
38. She was frightened; she began to realize that she stood in the presence of an unusual person, and groping about in her mind for a suitable reply, in great confusion, she said, "But, Sir, I cannot call my husband, for I have no husband
39. Natala heard her groping in the dark, and then a light sprang up
40. As panting voices from below reached the girl's ears, she shrank back into the black shadow of an arch, pushing the priest behind her, her hand groping in her girdle
41. On the very brink she paused, standing stiffly, her heels on the edge, and he fell on his knees and crawled whimpering toward her, groping for her, to drag her back from destruction
42. Groping in the darkness he found the lamp and lighted it
43. The black's head flew into the air; the headless body took three staggering steps, spurting blood and clawing horribly at the air with groping hands, and then slumped to the dust
44. Groping in a rolling cloud that blinded him, Conan felt a rending sensation of dislocation—and then room and mist and brown man were gone together
45. She had no intention of groping her way down those stone steps
46. Techotl's groping fingers plucked at Conan's arm
47. Then as he lifted his sword with his right hand to hew at the marble, his groping left encountered a metal bolt that evidently slipped into place at the closing of the door
48. The king of Ophir leaped up with a scream of outraged fury, groping for his slender sword
49. His groping hands found the openings of the tunnels, and he chose one at random
50. 'Xaltotun!' he repeated in a groping whisper
