Touch

I touched his face softly.

While thus she spake, / She toucht his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]

Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground.

They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching.

Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch?

If you touch her, I'll kill you.

Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.

The man was arrested for touching a girl without her consent.

Her parents had caught her touching herself when she was fifteen.

Tell me the truth, did you touch her?

He quickly touched his knee to the worn marble.

The demonstrator nearly touched the rod on the ball.

She touched her lips to the glass.

Frankly, this wood's so strong that sandpaper won't touch it.

Are you all right? You've hardly touched your lunch.

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander — from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain — this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.

But in fact the English kings of the seventeenth century usually began to touch form the day of their accession, without waiting for any such consecration.

Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon gold, that will not touch upon silver.

to touch the wind

My grandfather, as many people know, was touched with greatness.

This year, J. Allen Collier, the artistic director and producer, invited choreographers to create dance pieces exploring the multi-faceted responses to the AIDS crisis. This thematic unity touched the show with additional solemnity and grace.

Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched, […] there is a superstitious fear […] which much trouble many of us.

'Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope,' continued the doctor, 'there is one point I should like you to understand.[…]'

Men of Israhell take hede to youreselves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

And now it seemed he was engaged in something which touched them closely, but must be hidden from their knowledge.

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near nobody.

Stefan was touched by the song's message of hope.

He had been drinking over lunch, and was clearly touched.

The bill was finally touched after many hours of deliberation.

I was running short, so I touched old Bertie for a fiver.

You must be touched if you think I'm taking your advice.

There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen [as I do] you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty.

'Lind Arden was a great genius, one of the greatest tragic actresses in the world. As Lady Macbeth, as Magda, there was no one to touch her.'

On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.

I mean to touch your love indeed.

The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.

Hee was touched with great Remorse

to touch an instrument of music

[They] touched their golden harps.

A person in the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.

No decree of mine,[…][to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will.

Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.

With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.

He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.

a heavy touch, or a light touch

Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.

Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.

I'd like to see a touch more enthusiasm in the project.

Madam, I have a touch of your condition.

In another example, there are a few touches of white above the eye, and a white postocular stripe, which becomes quite broad where it terminates on the side of the neck.

We had looked forward to four or five days' work in Ying-shan similar to that in Yün-mung, but at the end of our two days' walk from the one city to the other (they lie more than fifty miles apart), Mr. Terrell had a touch of fever, so we judged it best to remain in Ying-shan only for a day and then travel as quickly as possible by chair to Teh-ngan to consult our good friend, Dr. Morley, of the Wesleyan Mission Hospital in that city, and from thence take boat for Hankow....

He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch.

He promised to keep in touch while he was away.

I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch.

Rovers' hopes of pulling off one of the great European shocks of all time lasted just 10 minutes before Spurs finally found their scoring touch.

Not alone / The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, / Do strongly speak to us.

a true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy

Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used.

Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design.

Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch.

Now do I play the touch.

a neat new monument of touch and alabaster

equity, the true touch of all laws

friends of noble touch

Set off the exact Length forward and aftward from the Observation of the rising of the Keel, by Shipwrights called the Touch, or Place where the Keel's upper Part ends to be streight.

But towards evening I got a touch at a cove's suck, and eased him of twenty-two quids and a lil, which I took in the usual manner, when he was entering the inn door.

Supposedly Pickle has a line on a group of wealthy donors who were about to make a big drop on Chuy's campaign, now that he is in the runoff. I ask Pickle about the timing of this donation because Crawford and I are about to put the touch on the campaign for another five grand.

Brody would have to pay her, so if all else failed she would have some control. She would have sex on her terms, not his. She would give him the relief he craved, and also relieve him of 500 quid while she was at it. A sweet little touch to keep her ahead of the game.

Such was Tim Whiffle on the Sunday, with the addition of a cane to indicate riding, it is true he had long had a penchant to a pair of spurs but did not as yet sport them, although a half crown touch at some livery stables was positively decided upon in his own mind, though hitherto the dread of a fall from a horse had prevented the execution of his magnanimous plan.

2019 In the mix: Who's pushing for selection for round seven? Australian Football League, 30 April 2019. Accessed 6 May 2019. Jackson Hately, Isaac Cumming and Nick Shipley have been in great touch in the NEAFL.

2019 In the mix: Who's pushing for selection for round seven? Australian Football League, 30 April 2019. Accessed 6 May 2019. With just six touches, small forward Daniel Rioli was uncharacteristically quiet against Melbourne, although he did lay five tackles.