Touches

Examples

• Goes through the archvay, thinking how he should inwest the money--up comes the touter, touches his hat--“Licence, Sir, licence? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Friends, said the Chief, looking round, the old man is but a Jew, natheless his grief touches me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Nay, Lavinia,' quoth Mrs Wilfer, 'this touches the blood of the family. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He's had touches enough not to want no more, as well as I make him out, Gaffer! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Enter Mr. Guppy, who nods to Mr. Snagsby and touches his hat with the chivalry of clerkship to the ladies on the stairs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Promise, he said, that you will put this into my coffin with your own hand; and that you will see that no other hand touches it afterwards. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mr. Skeggs, with his palmetto on and his cigar in his mouth, walks around to put farewell touches on his wares. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Who else comes and goes, and marks the walls with long crooked touches when we are all a-bed? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When the mind touches the body through the appetites, we acknowledge the responsibility of the one to the other. Plato. The Republic.
• A rope that hangs from the centre of the top touches the wall before it reaches the bottom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The evening of life is described by Plato in the most expressive manner, yet with the fewest possible touches. Plato. The Republic.
• It looks in at the windows and touches the ancestral portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contemplated by the painters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The old latticed windows, the stone porch, the walls, the roof, the chimney-stacks, were rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shades. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It must be lovely, said Mrs. Vincy, when Lydgate mentioned his purchase with some descriptive touches. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The one is a finished work which received the last touches of the author: the other is imperfectly executed, and apparently unfinished. Plato. The Republic.
• They are such touches of nature as the art of Defoe might have introduced when he wished to win credibility for marvels and apparitions. Plato. The Republic.
• That they fire with much rapidity and become so hot the barrel burns the hand that touches it, the gypsy said proudly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There was an absence of the finer touches of humanity in it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But all you have said touches on the disease only, it does not say how the cure you propose will benefit me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Ah, it is these little touches of nature that move one to tears in these far-off foreign lands. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The wind strikes the front, but rarely touches the back of the plane, and so gains a great leverage that adds materially to its power to overturn the machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This touches a spring in Grandmother Smallweed, who, chuckling as usual at the trivets, cries, Over the water! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She was now established in Mrs Merdle's own rooms, to which some extra touches had been given to render them more worthy of her occupation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The hand touches a hot thing; it is impulsively, wholly unintellectually, snatched away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She talks of you continually: there is no subject she enjoys so much or touches upon so often. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Those delicate touches of good taste were, in fact, one of the strong points in his demeanour towards the other sex. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I takes 'em up and I put 'em down, and I touches of 'em as delicate as if they was our Em'ly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Edited by Barton