Слово "grope". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Perhaps, after much fruitless groping, one will revert to our modest empirical solutions.

The puny plot of the story was so thin, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the day.

  When he rose painfully the thrusting forward of a skinny groping hand deformed by gouty swellings suggested the effort of a moribund murderer summoning all his remaining strength for a last stab.

Her hand groped for the doorhandle and then fell away.

“Here, deares.” She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her oh the bed and pulled out the string of pearls.

In those interminable moments while he was groping for the switch with his right hand (his left arm curled around the doorjamb in a deathgrip), that cellar smell seemed to intensify until it filled the world.