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rummage out
verb
- tr to find by searching vigorously; turn out
Example Sentences
With guile Odysseus drew away, then said: “A pity that you have more looks than heart. You’d grudge a pinch of salt from your own larder to your own handy man. You sit here, fat on others’ meat, and cannot bring yourself to rummage out a crust of bread for me!”
“I must have been dreaming,” he said to himself, as he went upstairs to rummage out the towels aforesaid, and anything else that his new-found guest would be likely to need.
Get into these while I go and rummage out some supper.
“Calkerlate I’ll take a look through his pockets,” he said; “might rummage out something worth havin’.”
We not only rummage out old Jacob Rank on his desert island, or whatever it may be, and rescue him, but we find a heap of pearls, a mighty lot of good shells, the best black pearl ever hauled out on the northern coast, and to cap all, we have a deal with that old shark, Silas Filey, that licks creation.
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