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ransack

«I'll have them fly to India for gold, / Ransack the ocean for orient pearl.»
«She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates (Author) | Keywords: ransack, ransacked
«I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!»
«I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.»