358 adjectives to describe touch

" Louis gave a sudden start in his chair, but on the instant Evadne laid her hand upon his arm, and its light touch soothed his anger as it had been wont to soothe his pain.

With the mood, the weather, the occasion, there are little touches added which a machine cannot give.

"In specimens taken with the tow-net the spines are very usually absent; but that is probably on account of their extreme tenuity; they are broken off by the slightest touch.

He felt the gentle touch of the girl's hand again and heard the wonderful sweetness of her voice as she sang to him and his master, and his body trembled and twitched with the thrills that had filled him that night.

Anyhow, the fact remains that sociable, kindly, gemüthlich and so forth as the Germans are, there is a lack of delicate touch and perception about them, of gentle manners, and a certain insensitiveness to the opinion of those with whom they have to deal.

All this Mercy was revolving in her thoughts, as she deftly and with almost a magic touch laid the soft mosses in the earthen dish, and planted them thick with ferns and hepatica and partridge-berry vines and wintergreen.

And is this a ducal hand, white as the albescent down of the eider-duck, which presses mine with a tender touch, so haughty and so delicately graduated to my standing as "friend" of the exquisite Honoria?

" She gazed at me a moment with bright, intent eyes, the faintest touch of color in her cheek.

Let us release the spring that will set all this in motionit requires only a touch, the merest touch!

To the last fine detail and exquisite touch was she, more here than elsewhere, softly, prettily, daintily feminine, her light heart idly set on wooing from its calm and abstracted aloofness this region of granite and lava, of rugged chasms and august ancient trees.

The salvage steamer with her big arc lights glowing through the darkness had been the last artistic touch which brought complete conviction.

Adding a characteristic touch to the rotten hypocrisy of the situation came a letter from Supreme Court Judge McIntosh to George Dysart, whose son was in command of a posse during the manhunt.

Although he fastened the clasp with a workman's firm touch, he thrilled.

I know you feel it, for I see your lips quiveryou are as susceptible to a rude touch as a sensitive plantbut it is beautiful to be able to keep sweet outside.

Just as a prize fighter keeps his deadly, poised hands in play, moving them as though he fears to lose his intimate touch with them.

A sudden touch on his shoulder roused him, as one of the young men from town leaned over and asked him excitedly: "Who's that girl down at the other end of the room, Gray?the stunning blonde that just came in?

Still there are occasional touches of merit in the feeble outlines of Captain Medwin, and with this conviction it would be negligence not to avail myself of them.

"Why not?" He answered with a curious touch of bitterness.

The direct touch with administrative cause and effect is lost.

"Ordinary readers were not enraptured by the Iliad swiftness and vividness of the narrative, its sustained passion, the flow of poetry, the touches of grandeur and tenderness, and the masterly touches by which he made the great actors stand out in their individuality."

The caressing finger-tips lifted from Musgrave's head, but presently gave it one more brief and half-timid touch.

Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much.

If the poets were few after the Restoration, the novelists were many, with transcendent excellences and transcendent faults, reaching the heart by their pathos, insulting the reason by their exaggerations, captivating the imagination while shocking the moral sense; painting manners and dissecting passions with powerful, acute, and vivid touch.

Very unbecoming gowns they are, in all cases; and much as the wearers must be accustomed to them, they seem to step awkwardly, and to have an ungraceful feminine touch in their motions.

Not a word was spoken even when the carriage was heard rolling down the drive; but the sound of the wheels seemed to arouse Angy from her stupor of amazement; and presently Abraham became conscious of a touch,a touch sympathetic, tender and true,a touch all-understandingthe touch of Angy's hand within his own.

358 adjectives to describe  touch