Rummaging

Examples

• Selden was rummaging in a cupboard for the cake. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• To begin at the beginning, Mrs. Kirke called to me one day as I passed Mr. Bhaer's room where she was rummaging. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Caroline, who, mounted on a chair, had been rummaging the bookcase, returned with a book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I suppose that's what you are rummaging after among my things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Meantime Mark, who for some minutes had been rummaging amongst a pile of books on a side-table, took the word. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The moment the camp was reached our men laid down their arms and commenced rummaging the tents to pick up trophies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The women were a sight to see, while the police-officers were rummaging among their things. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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