Untouched

Examples

• If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Or that he did not give her the use of their own instrumentwhich must now be shut up in London, untouched by any body. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I was not surprised, therefore, when this morning he left his untouched meal behind him, and started with me for Norwood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• By this plan the original plate remains untouched, and the printing from the stone is much cheaper than from the copper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Truth has no lack; it is untouched by the perturbations of the world of sense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There may be, there probably are, thousands of deposits still untouched containing countless fragments and vestiges of man and his progenitors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Better die at once--better plunge a poinard in her bosom, still untouched by drear adversity, and then again sheathe it in my own! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was untouched like the previous sum, and he refolded it in the same way. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Perplexed what to do, he looked into the parlour, and was vexed to find that the letter still lay there untouched. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Patiently to earn a spare bare living, and quietly to die, untouched by workhouse hands--this was her highest sublunary hope. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He was supposed to have died in battle, but ten days afterwards his body was found untouched by corruption and sent home for burial. Plato. The Republic.
• There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The reality would be untouched. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say; and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she thought must interest. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Saturnia's statue rises chaste, grand, untouched; at her feet piled ashes lie pale. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My honour is as untouched as that of the bitterest enemy who ever maligned me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But this process of light and thought was leaving courts and the political life of the world untouched. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Marks was the only one who remained wholly untouched. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The old mine, which I found untouched, has made me fabulously wealthy; but what care I for wealth! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• These three glasses upon the sideboard have been untouched, I suppose? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Its untouched mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hardy pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Or is it better to leave them untouched, spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It must remain untouched for twenty-four hours, as it requires time during which to heat completely through. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In evoking dread and hope of specific tangible reward--say comfort and ease--many other capacities are left untouched. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His joy was so deep that this blurring of the surface left its essence untouched; but he would have liked to keep the surface pure too. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Still change of scene, and reviving hopes might restore her; I feared the plague only, and she was untouched by that. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He would have been base indeed to have stood untouched by her appeal. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She enjoyed the thought of showing herself untouched by the 'glamour,' which she was well aware Margaret had the power of throwing over many people. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Typist: Terrence