"Feeler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... both as a thinker and as a feeler, and you deserved more admiration than I gave. I was too full of narrow dogmas at that time ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... negotiations in detail with us. It was a stiff sum, I must say—an extremely stiff sum; but no doubt he was charging us a fancy price for a fancy castle. "He will come down in time," Charles said. "The sum first named in all these transactions is invariably a feeler. They know I'm a millionaire; and people always imagine millionaires are positively ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen
... feelers and grasped him round the body. He felt himself dragged helplessly towards the capacious maw where he had already seen so many creatures conveyed. "Oh, master, master! help, help!" he shouted at the top of his voice, though a feeler getting round his neck almost stopped ...
— The Seven Champions of Christendom • W. H. G. Kingston
... my window-sill, in order to see the issue. Holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, I saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore-leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breast-plate was apparently too thick for him to pierce; and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer's eyes shone ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... have seen the general before dinner," added the major, using the remark as a "feeler" to induce his companion to inform him what ...
— The Young Lieutenant - or, The Adventures of an Army Officer • Oliver Optic
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