What is "cast around"

Usage examples of "cast around".

He will liberate you and comfort you more fully, more effectively and more satisfactorily than if you were to dream about it all the time, day and night, and were to cast around frantically all over the place with the futile and confused thoughts of your mind in bondage, nor will you wear out your mind and body, wasting your time, and stupidly and pointlessly exhausting your strength.

I began to cast around for a good subject for our first big project, a CD-ROM adventure game that would combine state-of-the-art graphics with a natural language parser which would enable the player to engage the characters in conversation.

In the bedroom he made a rapid cast around and ended by throwing open the window, which appeared to give him some fresh cause for excitement, for he leaned out of it with loud ejaculations of interest and delight.

That was the outline of the signal which Rose presently sent across to Compass Rose: reading it, Ericson had to make up his mind whether to start the towing straight away, or to cast around for the missing boat and its survivors.

The frightened horses often refused to proceed, or to penetrate the murky depths which the mountain shadows cast around them, even blackening the snow.

He cast around in his mind for something to occupy him, and perceived suddenly that the world was larger than he had supposed.