1856 collocations for touch

The most business-like question that ever touches the heart of man is this: For what shall I trade my soul?

We, however, drew ourselves down; and as soon as the machine touched the ground, we let off some of our leaden balls to keep it there.

Each sobbing breath is but a cry, My heart-strokes knells of agony, And my whole brain has but one thought That nevermore through life shall I (Save in the ache of memory) Touch hands with thee, who now art naught!

The venerable patriarch touched his hat, and Mr. P., hoping from such great age to gain a little wisdom, propounded the following questions: "Uncle, is this water good for the bile?

Wesley, with Jones touching his right arm and Number Two at his left, is moving slowly, silently northward to the left of the stairs.

Marion, hurried forward to greet her, followed more leisurely by Isabelle and her mother, who touched her lips lightly to her forehead.

Something warm, caressing, touched his cold face just under one eye.

And she leaning her hand upon her cheek, he passionately wished himself a glove upon that hand, that he might touch her cheek.

Then, something touched my shoulder.

Then, her face glowing with the most fervent expression of affection and sympathy, she embraced me, and touched my forehead with her divine lips.

will be about right, sir," replied the tender's skipper, touching his cap at sight of the American Naval uniform.

I had touched the right chord at last.

But there was nothingnothing but that gray ghostly gloom, with the rim of the sky touching the earth a mile away.

He takes from the top drawer a pistol-case, which he has evidently handled before, as he touches the spring at once.

He touches things that are the other side of the world from him, that is, across the room.

The fly had scarcely touched the water when a trout, weighing a pound or over, struck it with a rush that carried him clear out of the water.

She took off her own hat, and touched up her hair with her fingers, and tried on the other.

Jack asked, as the officer touched a bell.

How many thoughts will fly through a girl's mind while her head rests on some kind shoulder, and she is being consoled for the first calamity that has touched her life!

"No one has touched the body.

One, kneeling to a lyre, touched the strings, Muffling to death the pathos with his wings, And ever and anon uprose to look At the youth's slumber; while another took A willow-bough distilling odorous dew, And shoot it on his hair; another flew In through the woven roof, and fluttering-wise Rained violets upon his sleeping eyes.' 1. 2.

It narrowly escaped lighting upon the bark in which Ulysses sat, but with the fall it raised so fierce an ebb, as bore back the ship till it almost touched the shore.

"I think I saw a Russian gentleman at St. Isaac's touch his forehead to the floor, rise and stand erect, touch the floor again, and rise again, ten times in as many minutes; and we were one day forbidden entrance to a church because the czar was about to say his prayers; we found he was making the pilgrimage of some seventy churches, and praying in each one.

" Charteris touched the colonel's head, stroking his hair ever so lightly once or twice.

These were nought; they touched not the soul.

1856 collocations for  touch