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.

Some substitute for "mother's button box," a box of shells or coloured seeds, a box of feathers, all these things will be played with, which means observation and discrimination, comparison and contrast, and in addition, where colour is involved, there is aesthetic pleasure, and this also enters into the touching of smooth or soft surfaces.

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.

or more chaste, more graceful, more touching than his young "Eve" leaning toward her Creator, and breathing in through her half-opened lips the divine breath that is giving her life?

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.

There is something very touching in these old remembrances.

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.

But no account ever written of his martyrdom is at once so simple and so touching as that to be found in the Golden Legend.

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.

There the father lifts the child up to the pillow, and he lays his little face down for an instant by the little warm face of poor unconscious little Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior, and gently draws it to hima sight so touching to the chambermaids, who are peeping through the door, that one of them called out, "It's a shame to part 'em!"

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 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.

That little pretty book of Guizot's which you sent me, I have been trying to read, but I find that it is too touching for me, and I have been obliged to lay it aside.