He resolved to watch this Groper after secret and forgotten lore, and to trace him to his habitation.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
So he stood, unstable, vacillating and a treacherous Groper amidst cruel shards of an ineluctable memory, powerless to stay the fair phantom and fearful of looking night squarely in the front.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
And from Theodore, the Groper, the-"But at any rate," something within her said, "he has always been true to himself."
"Fanny Herself"
Edna Ferber