Rootling

Sawdays, the guidebook publisher that specialises in rootling out special places to stay, is about to launch Dog-friendly Breaks in Britain £14.99, sawdays.co.uk. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I normally find them rootling in the reeds along Carleton Beck, and in this post-Christmas soft spell it makes me want to clench my fist and wave it at the heavens as a salute to their winter survival. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And recessions bring out the piggy part of human nature, the part that is stubborn and selfish and intent only on rootling around for sufficient food. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Where were ye yesterday-rootling under the trees like a hog? ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is nothing to stop me – or a Wada patrol, or one of the French television crews who like to do this kind of thing – popping in and rootling around in search of incriminating performance-enhancing stuff. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Waterstones now has a picture of me in the window and somehow has sold two copies of the book even though it isn't out yet ask if they have some "behind the counter", apparently, and rootling in the stockroom will see copies ferreted out. ❋ Tim Stretton (2008)

And rootling through poo would offer Gordon the sort of post-premier employment opportunity he is actually qualified for. ❋ Patrick Vessey (2008)

His uncle boosted him unceremoniously back into his bed, covered him up, then began rootling about in the dark, in search of the rifle he had put down. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

Luckily both of them were dressed in old clothes, suitable for rootling in filth. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

The baby was kneading the mattress with elbows and knees, rootling in the bedclothes with a low grunting noise. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

Harry, my height but fair and blue-eyed, complied with the instructions as though thoroughly accustomed to being bidden, and began rootling round also for spoons, instant coffee and sugar. ❋ Francis, Dick (1990)

Pilkington rootling in Miss Harden's affairs; Pilkington posing as ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

Days when the marsh would be full of tapirs wallowing and wild pig rootling and fighting, there might be hundreds feeding within sound of you and not a hint of it except the occasional _toot-toot_ of some silly cow calling for Scrag, or a young bull blowing water. ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)

'Blessed ass, I have heard you snoring these two hours, snoring and rootling over your jack-knife. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

Hence, when a wretched woman was mourning alone over the husband who had just been hustled into his grave, the men were after her like wolves, every one of her neighbours knowing exactly what she was worth even to the fraction of a rood of land, or the last lamb that had been dropped, or the litter of pigs that were rootling up the beech-nuts in the woods. ❋ Augustus Jessopp (1868)

I have spent ages rootling through my pockets to find a coin the size of a wart, waiting for shopkeepers to say "Ça ne fait rien" or something. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After much rootling around my google calendar, it looks like next Friday (the 17th) is target day, so the scan is booked for Monday 20th. ❋ Unknown (2010)