Time to touch my old man, eh?" He drank off his first glass with a quaff, laughing and waving it empty before her face to give off its perfume.

" The pressure on Paul was more palpable, as spoke of the miniature; and he ventured to touch his companion's arm, in order to give it a surer hold of his own.

His message of resignation was one to touch any heart, combining pathos with absolute dignity.

" "Cur'ous," said McNutt, leaning over to touch the foot cautiously with one finger, to see if the paint was dry.

Too mean for Wyandotté to touch.

The fox submitted if to touch A gosling would be deemed too much.

I am aware that there lie, beyond the subjects of which I have treated, larger considerations of public policy affecting this question, on which I have not ventured to touch.

He converted a large number of persons, and cured many of the sick, by allowing them to touch a piece of the sacred lance which he carried with him.

What man, provided he were born in any part of Italy, would not abominate the idea of seeing and having for his masters these men, nourished with such horrid food, whom even to touch were an impiety; of fetching laws from Africa and Carthage; and of suffering Italy to become a province of the Moors and Numidians?

"But sometimes I did long for the centres of civilization; to touch elbows with their activities; to feel the flow of the current of humanity in great streets.

Meanwhile the months were going by, and the day drawing nearer when, for a brief moment of fire, the orbits of those two separated lives were to touch once more.

Other people do not care to meddle with him, and the most daring robber would be afraid to touch infected money or clothes.

To this cause, may be traced that consummate knowledge of the human heart which he finally attained, and which enabled him when he came upon the public stage, to touch the springs of passion with a master hand, and to control the resolutions and decisions of his hearers with a power almost more than mortal.

Can't you give us a switch-tail one, that will hang on so as to touch next December?

When she had got her frock on she sat down, and laying her arm over the fat pocket asked Jane to touch up her curls: and while this operation was going on she began to talk to the nurse.

The new spirit is beginning to touch the Italian girl, and as time goes on, she, too, will be brought into the fold of unionism.

In all the three and thirty years of our acquaintance I loved her DEARLY and reverenced her most deeply; but between us there was such a gulf that I always felt unworthy to touch even the hem of her garment.

"Don't you remember telling me that Warrigal was such a nasty-tempered brute that he allowed no one but yourself to touch him?" "Oh well, then, I'm floored, and will have to put up with the consequences," he good-humouredly made answer.

I don't wish to touch on controversial matters, but I must say if the Government, of which my noble friend was an ornament, had, when in office, only ceded Heligoland to Germany, they would have deserved well of their country, and might have been assured of the enthusiastic support of noble Lords on this side of the House, and of the Party of which my nephew is a Leader in another place.

And when they were able to touch his mule, or his robe, or anything that was his, they kissed their hands . . .

Tax (as a verb) meant originally to touch or handle, then to estimate or appraise, and then to charge a burden upon some one, especially to impose a payment of services, goods, or money upon persons or property for the support of government.

exclaimed Crayshaw with an air of indolent surprise; and Miss Crampton thereupon retreated down-stairs, taking great care not to touch any metallic substance.

"No, sair, it is not how to furl la queue, but how to touch de soul; not de art to haul over de calm, butoui, c'est plein de connoissance et d'esprit!

The strange boat was dancing on the waves, like a light shell that floated so buoyantly as scarce to touch the element which sustained it, while four athletic seamen leaned on the oars which lay ready to urge it ahead.

Without, however, plunging into the abyss of complications which yawns for us in Mrs. Macdonald's pages, it may be worth while to touch upon one point with which she has dealt (perhaps wisely for her own case!) only very slightlythe question of the motives which could have induced Grimm and Diderot to perpetuate a series of malignant lies.