She hung up the phone before the nurse could say a word and rifled through the closet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Earthquakes] Reference

When a flintlock guy jumped on board with me, I gave him grief because his newfangled peice was "rifled", not a smoothbore like mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun Nut Survey: A highly biased, unofficial poll of 2,000 readers on all things shooting] Reference

With roses, rifled from the cheek of Morn.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Ancient and Modern Tragedy] Reference

And weave their granaries from the rifled flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

He rifled a throw to the player standing on first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Los Angeles Dodgers edge Washington Nationals with RBI single in 10th inning] Reference

Barrel is octagon, rifled deeply and about .32 calibre.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"] Reference

 I rifled through my bag and found the staff phone list.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Be A Child (Part II of III)] Reference

As he rifled through my computer bag, he seemed to soften.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roadblocks and Riots] Reference

The secessionists have ten thousand men and forty rifled cannon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

Almost every commander of a battery desired to have rifled guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

Freeman rifled through several pages he'd carried to the podium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freeman, Obama and Hollywood Immortality] Reference

They are all empty, having been rifled at the Revolution of 1793.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

They pulled trunks from the river, cut the locks and rifled them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

Minié rifles and rifled cannon, may repeat anew the incursions of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

 Then he rifled through the pockets with the gusto of a criminal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Pockets] Reference

The treasury was rifled, and the building used as a military depot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference

He rifled through the clippings looking for something he could use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins] Reference

My ambition never extended beyond a rifled cannon, and they know it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

They then rifled his pockets and took his watch and money; also making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Gordon rifled the hood's pockets, and located a roll of bills stuffed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

There was no longer the grim suspicion of who might have rifled her rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

The necessity for rifled cannon arose from the perfection of rifled muskets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

The house was rifled by the soldiers, and next day the German patrol arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

 The woman in Shepherd's hotel room rifled her purse in search of her diaphragm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Novel] Reference

At the commencement of our own contest there was an undue partiality for rifled ordnance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

Half a dozen cooking utensils were brought forth, drawers opened, cupboards and pantry rifled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy-Alone] Reference

Desmond scurried to third, and Dunn rifled back across the diamond to Desmond, a perfect throw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defensive gems by Danny Espinosa, Ian Desmond not enough for Nationals] Reference

Officers rifled through Risley's personal papers -- notes on the documentary film she was making.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Tapestries Of Hope': Filmmaker Documents Activist's Fight Against Rape In Zimbabwe] Reference

Pyramids had been rifled by the Caliphs, if not by earlier hands, and no inscriptions have been found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

On handling some rifled muskets in the arsenal storehouse he asked me how they would answer our purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Four guns, two three-inch rifled and two howitzers, were engaged in this action with the Covington and Signal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Before dawn the two were back in their own place, bearing the little all of value that the rifled house had contained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

In the space between them lay two four-gun batteries, one of them brass twelve-pounder "Napoleons," and the other rifled Parrotts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

It was a fine mark for a rifled battery of the Rebels, and some shells passed close to it, and exploded in dangerous proximity to our camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference