rummaging

“Now the mischief is out; depend upon it the custom-house people went rummaging about the ship in our absence, and discovered poor Dantès’ hidden treasures.”

A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.

Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed.