The General explained to us that these light-draft armed vessels-river-gropers, as he called them-were indefatigable at pushing up the numerous creeks, burning and devastating everything.
"Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863"
Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle
The Hauptmanns and the Sudermanns, gropers in obscurity, violent sentimentalists, 'bigots to laxness,' Dr. Johnson would have called them.
"The Valley of Vision"
Henry Van Dyke
If only Christ, with all that He has to give, could be received into the Home, what light and gladness He would bring into the hearts of these poor gropers after truth!
"India and the Indians"
Edward F. Elwin