In the meantime I had put the fireman on, and we put the finishing touches on the engine, No. 38a big, new machine, with eight drivers, and in the pink of condition.

"Anything that touches me personally is my private concernand we are talking about the lease of the mill.

"She'd have steered handier if we'd gone in against the ebb; but there's a better chance of coming off if she touches ground.

Where Sonnerbo township touches the boundaries of Halland, there is a sandy heath which is so far-reaching that he who stands upon one edge of it cannot look across to the other.

He was very delicate and careful about it, for these were the final touches, preparatory to his leaving the timepiece as a memento when he should quietly depart that evening, shortly before nine.

Mr. KIPLING is putting the finishing touches to a new Jungle book.

Everything which touches it catches it.

The cool wind of the night blows over the vast spaces of the Sahara and touches her cheek, reminding her of her glorious days of liberty, of the passion that came to her soul like fire in the desert.

If her hand touches mine, it is not a thrill of passion I feel running through me, but a very different emotion.

She rarely used make up; touches of eye shadow made her seem especially dressed up.

Lip gloss and touches of eye shadow sent the "I know how" message.

Joe imagined her clothes dropping away, saw her naked, her clean tight skin, touches of private color at her breasts, the subtle curve where she would swell with pregnancy.

For to return to our Statue in the Block of Marble, we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped, sometimes rough-hewn and but just sketched into an human Figure; sometimes we see the Man appearing distinctly in all his Limbs and Features, sometimes we find the Figure wrought up to a great Elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the Hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice Touches and Finishings.

The whole Work is an Exercise of the highest Piety in the Painter; and all the Touches of a religious Mind are expressed in a Manner much more forcible than can possibly be performed by the most moving Eloquence.

Far from this, however, he only touches on his needs in the following letter to Alfred Vail, written on November 14, 1839: "As to the Telegraph, I have been compelled from necessity to apply myself to those duties which yield immediate pecuniary relief.

(And he touches a trail of blossom admiringly, as he continues:) They, at least, in their reflected glory, look flourishing; for they, too, have had a share in your career, have they not? CHAMBERLAIN.

You will? (The dictatorial expression softens: with a look of mild resignation the Ex-President touches the table for the tray to be set down.

His dress touches that of his companion, but instinctively he moves from her as far as the crowded seat will permit, while Dorothea, all unconscious, looks lovingly in his face.

Or will you rise at dead of night and go out on the lake with me and watch field after field of white lilies flash open as the sun touches them with his spear?

Their rude hands in numberless instances have skinned the pictures, obliterating those peerless tints, lights, and shadows, and those delicate but emphatic touches that bespeak the master-stroke, leaving instead cold, blank, hard surfaces and outlines, opaque shadows and crude coloring, out of tone, and in consequence with deteriorated sentiment as well as execution.

" Dr. Tolbridge, a man of moderate height, and compactly built, with some touches of gray in his full, short beard, and all the light of youth in his blue eyes, had been for years the leading physician in and about Thorbury.

There were little touches of formal courtesy in him so contrasted with what she had seen of him in action, so at variance with the childishly gaudy clothes he wore, that it put Marianne completely at sea.

The fragment, which forms one of its sides, leans towards the main rock, and touches it at top, forming a roof, with here and there a fissure, through which the light enters.

In a few hours the ship will be drymuch to our satisfaction; it is very wretched when, as last night, there is slippery wet snow underfoot and on every object one touches.

What touches us ourself, shall be last serv'd.