So although he had a touch of the gout, in a trice they were come to Dis's door.

He and St. Vallier thought alike on most subjects, home politics and foreignand since the Berlin Congress, where W. had come in touch with all the principal men in Germany, it was of course much easier for them to work together.

Inadvertently I had touched on a sore spot.

We had, in singular succession, dead calms and fresh breezes, stiff gales and sudden squalls; saw sharks, flying-fish, and dolphins; spoke several vessels: had a visit from Neptune when we crossed the Line, and were compelled to propitiate his favour with some gallons of spirits, which he seems always to find a very agreeable change from sea water; and touched at Table Bay and at Madagascar.

But nothing had been touched in the owner's absence.

During the hour before dinner the ground itself was a scene of brisk activity: the school colours flew at the summit of the flagstaff; the boundary flags fluttered in the breeze; a number of willing hands, under the direction of Allingford, put a finishing touch to the pitch with the big roller, while others assisted in rigging up the two screens of white canvas in line with the wickets.

Having obeyed her instruction, my lips touched for the first time the brow of my young wife.

It was like the first touch from the claws of death.

There was no accent definite enough to be called foreign, certainly not to be assigned to any particular race, but there was an exotic touch about his manner of speech suggesting that, even if not that of a foreigner, it was shaped and colored by the inflexions of foreign tongues.

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.

Carnivorous, decidedly, is the creature concreted by the New York Rendering Company, converting all that it touches into fat, and so, living literally upon the fat of the land.

She seemed to be set apart and protected from the common touch by his size, and by his formidable, challenging eye.

But this gentleman seems to have established some new maxims of conduct, and, perhaps, upon new notions of morality; for he seems to imagine, that his friends may seize, as their right, what his adversaries cannot touch without robbery, though the claim of both be the same.

" We look in Anglo-Saxon poetry in vain for a touch like this: "Sweetly a bird sang on a pear tree above the head of Gwenn before they covered him with a turf.

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.

In fact, the situation needed a lighter touch than mine.

He taken his touch after her, exactan' his hands, too, sech good firm fingers, not all plowed out o' shape, like mine.

In every aggregation of atoms, there were the four planes, each in touch through the Cosmic Mind, its manasa, with other atoms in the universe, with every other globe of whatever kind.

Furtively she slipped the hand he had touched behind her.

There used to be an Indian woman at Olancha who made bottle-neck trinket baskets in the rattlesnake pattern, and could accommodate the design to the swelling bowl and flat shoulder of the basket without sensible disproportion, and so cleverly that you might own one a year without thinking how it was done; but Seyavi's baskets had a touch beyond cleverness.

In the anxiety, the fear of disgrace, spoke the nineteenth century civilization with which Ben Davis had been more or less closely in touch during twenty years of slavery and fifteen years of freedom.

He carried it well out from his side, as if he feared the least touch against his leg might mean a cut.

They nested everywherein the 'big tree,' the orchard, the evergreens, the hedges, and in the long row of maple trees with trunks as big as a barrel and limbs that touch across the street.

Milton never fails of improving his own Hints, and bestowing the last finishing Touches to every Incident which is admitted into his Poem.

'This is a well-licked whelp,' replied Elzevir, 'who got a bullet in the leg two months ago in that touch under Hoar Head; and is worth more than he looks, for they have put twenty golden guineas on his headso have a care of such a precious top-knot.'