Indeed, that touch of angry passion in her was the flower of Hermes to Red Jim, keeping him from complete infatuation when she sang to him, playing her own lightly-touched accompaniment at the piano.

Almost the only touch which shows consciousness of a suspicion that romantic literature existed, is a reference to the rival translations of Burger's Lenore in 1797.

Antæus-like, he had now reached the ground, and the touch of the ground to him, as to all giants, was inspiration.

Of every region I have visited, during a life of wandering and penitence, that is the country on which the touch of the Creator hath been the most God-like!" "Thou art imaginative to-night, good Father Anselmo.

When he describes the daisy, casting the beauty of its star-shaped shadow on the smooth stone, or the boundless depth of the abysses of the sky, or the clouds made vivid as fire by the rays of light, every touch is true, not the copying of a literary phrase, but the result of direct observation.

Touch is a sensation of contact referred to the surface of the body.

Your touch is light, butin spite of all that, it will give me pain.

I could scarcely control myself as I knelt at the altar rails, and felt as though the gentle touch of the aged Bishop, which fluttered for an instant on my bowed head, were the very touch of the wing of that "Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove", whose presence had been so earnestly invoked.

Yet but the lightest touch is a source of pain to the sick man.

The offence that most closely touches women is rape.

Her light touch on his arm was the very shackle of fate.

These sentimental touches are gratuitous additions of Barrington; native Australians do not even clasp each other in their arms, and they are as incapable of vowing eternal constancy as of comparing Herbert Spencer's philosophy with Schopenhauer's.

Wonderful touches which the imitative Giorgionesque painter would not have thought of are the girdle, a mauve-purple now, with a sharply emphasised golden fringe, and the sapphire-blue jewel in the brooch.

Oct. Touch not that string, 'Twill but encrease your sorrow: and tame silence, (The Balm of the oppressed) which hitherto Hath eas'd your griev'd soul, and preserv'd your fame, Must be your Surgeon still.

Note again the oppressive darkness of the opening lines of Pleine Mer, in which the only touch of light is the winding-sheet of the waves, and contrast it with the atmosphere of light which surrounds the ship in Plein Ciel, where even the night is bright: La Nuit tire du fond des gouffres inconnus Son filet où luit Mars, où rayonne Vénus.

They live accursed by even charity, shunned by philanthropy, and shut from the Christian world like a tribe of lepers whose touch is contagion and whose breath is pestilence.

The only touch of light in the scene was a faint greenish glow at the edge of the sky in one direction, which threw into prominence a horizon of undulating black hills.

The "touch" of God is not a figure of speech.

A touch of age, perhaps; Hastings was always an eccentric man: in any event, as epilogue, this Neville congratulated the Queen thatby blind luck, he was forced to concede,her worthy secretary had made a prisoner of the Scottish King.

The last touch to this tragedy was the sordid tinge of poverty.

This one little touch is a masterpiece of craftsmanship.

This one loving touch of Wabi's hand was ample reward for the long night's duty, and his pleasure expressed itself in two or three low chuckling grunts.

Wonderful touches which the imitative Giorgionesque painter would not have thought of are the girdle, a mauve-purple now, with a sharply emphasised golden fringe, and the sapphire-blue jewel in the brooch.

His tone comforted, his touch was a comfort.

Not that he recognized it as such but the touch was a pleasure and the quiet voice passed into his mind with a mild and soothing influence that made the wide freedom of the mountain-desert seem a worthless thing.