Conan hoped not, for he had small taste for another blind groping against a far deadlier foe than Bethina's "guards."

Here, the sort of art described by a farm woman as "blind groping after something beautiful" is viewed as a living tradition with many recent examples depicted.

The last time he had done such blind groping, he thought, he had been fifteen and had gotten slapped for it.

A move could be made, and the blind groping was over.

Then she thought of a better stratagem than blind groping.

But it was a sort of blind groping.

It took both hands and a lot of blind groping to get me back to the door.

Like Magellan's, their blind, uncertain gropings often excite the contempt of others.

This blind groping went on for a long time, that began to seem endless.

The body on the table had risen with a blind and terrible groping, and we had heard a sound.