But with the dark coming so quickly, this night, there hadn't been time to do that much rummaging.

After some rummaging, the clerk explained that he was out of small cups.

He looked up from his rummaging of the body, unconcerned at my tone.

There was a general rummaging, and a general lack of a result.

Today's composers are doing their rummaging in computer code.

I continued my rummaging, sleuthing now, rather than fortune hunting.

A few seconds' desperate rummaging in the debris by the wall produced a fence post.

Still counselling silence he gave Jack a thorough rummaging.

A little rummaging turned up a hypo and there was a plastic container of salt in the kitchen.

All his rummaging failed to locate a weapon.

She looked up from her rummaging.

It took some rummaging, but he managed to find them-the small herbal charms Chelsea had given him weeks before.

Grag stopped his rummaging and swiveled to face her with a grin.

Stick a candle in your pocket; I can't rest, Jim, till we give her a rummaging.

The startled fellow ceased his rummaging.

It was sampling him--he could feel a blunt, chilly, awkward rummaging.

When you came to the garret you always found so many things you had almost forgotten and all the family ghosts got a good rummaging.

After some rummaging, Tilden produced the coin.

Out of it, after a little rummaging, she produced a clear crystal of quartz about the size of a pigeon's egg.

"Rummaging is not refined."

The spider was alarmed by the violent rummaging, it suddenly hurried out from its hiding place and ran onto Mademoiselle's hand and up her arm.

Several sheaves of stiff, folded paper, tucked into the side of the purse, hmnpered his rummaging.

As I sat there in a sweat, I listened to the grunting and rummaging of the pigs in the van.

Mrs Gogol reached into the cushions of her rocking-chair and, after some rummaging, produced a leather bag and a pipe.

Until she heard the rummaging among the mound of corpses in which she lay, the scrabbling of claws, strange childlike sounds.

Just rummaging around for want of something better to do.

Everything- but she was very certain someone had rummaged through them.

Yet something about her made him keep rummaging for things to say.

And so I spent a lot of time rummaging through those things.

I rummaged around in my mind for something to say.

They rummage around and every so often come up with a new act.

I heard her put the phone down and start rummaging around the room.

It felt as if his mind was being rummaged through.

She rummaged in the big medical box and found some.

Now she'd gone rummaging for a letter she wanted to show me.

She rummaged for a minute, then came back to me.

He found it, after a moment of rummaging, under the bed.

She was rummaging through her memory, and coming up short.

He rummaged about the room, going from one article to another.

He rummaged on the front seat of the car and came up with a photograph.

Sitting on the floor again, she rummaged through everything she'd brought with her.

She put the bag to one side to rummage further.

She rummaged under the stores and then held both hands high.

Rummaging around in her bag, she told the men they could leave.

Maybe I should kick in the door and rummage about.

The man rummaged inside - he was clearly after something specific.

The soldier is again rummaging through the things on the table.

He rummaged for one on the table beside his bed.

I took that for agreement and began to rummage around.

Quite a serious problem, to have someone rummaging around in those documents.

And have a bit of a rummage through his things.

And she's in charge of the rummage sales at the church.

It's like a rummage through a collection of favorite albums.

There was enough old clothing to stock a rummage sale.

Who would come to a rummage sale if the best items have already been plucked?

Come and have a rummage; you might find the prop which makes your joke that little bit better.

The end of the corridor looked like a rummage sale, but we'd set things to rights with good speed once we got started.

After running a successful rummage sale in the garage, they decided to open a shop there.

That would have made this house into something no more striking than a rummage sale barn.

One member had a station wagon and it was her duty to pick up the rummage.

So when you get the Christmas decorations out of the attic why not have a good rummage and see what else is up there?

While we were upstairs, we'd nip in the bedroom for a quick rummage.

Tom made a rapid rummage, and fished up a little broken pistol.

"Found a trunk of old cowboy things at a rummage sale.

The auction never takes place on the same day as the rummage; often it can take place several weeks later.

I was in charge of the rummage crew, and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others.

There was nothing to do but prepare a rummage sale, in fact, and Edna got into the spirit of it.

I ran to Mom's room and there was just pressed carpet where the rummage box had been."

Mama was supposed to be there pricing items for a rummage sale, but she'd gone somewhere.

Some just flash past on their way to a rummage sale table; others are timeless treasures.

After a rummage, he pulls out a 15 x 15cm one of a castle.

The living room looked like a rummage sale.

To tally my wealth, all I had to do was rummage through the junk drawer in the kitchen.

It'd be dreadful to think of some thief getting in there and having a rummage.'

Ellen Cherry had acquired her at a diocesan rummage sale.