There was perhaps a desire of some elements of both sides, certainly it was the unanimous wish of the Allies, to avoid the clash of arms in Palestine, and to leave untouched by armies a land held in reverence by three of the great religions of the world.

Handfuls besides we drop upon the ground, And ears untouched in numbers lie around; These by the poor and widows shall be found.

" The Tartar king had leaped on his saddle the moment he saw his enemy; and when the Paladin had done speaking, he said in a mild voice, "Without doubt you are the best knight I ever encountered; and fain would I leave you untouched for your own sake, if you would cease to hinder me from rallying my people.

"I cannot eat," she exclaimed, seeing that they both looked suspiciously at the thick slice of currant-bread, that lay untouched on her plate.

With his thick, loose black hair, in any case, untouched by a thread of gray, and his kept gift of a certain big-boyish awkwardnessthat of his taking their encounter, for instance, so amusedly, so crudely, though, as she was not unaware, so eagerly toohe could by no means have been so little his wife's junior as it had been that lady's habit, after the divorce, to represent him.

A while stood Beltane in that dark defile, the which, untouched as jet by the sun's level beams, struck dank and chill, a place of gloom and awful silenceso stood he, glancing from one still form to another, twice he knelt to look more closely on the dead and each time he rose thereafter, his brow was blacker and he shivered, despite his mantle.

But the natural decline of the physical powers leaves the healthy spirit untouched with age, should indeed leave it strengthenedglowing not with passion but with a steadier fire.

But that in Seneca the which you lov'd, Which you admir'd, doth and shall still remaine, Secure of death, untouched of the grave. 1 Friend.

But if, while you had the command of the fleet supplies of whatever sort were conveyed safe and untouched to Hannibal, even as though he had no enemy on the sea, if the coast of Italy has been more infested this year than that of Africa, what can you have to urge why you should be preferred before all others as the antagonist of Hannibal?

A few pen strokes and a driver curled around the subject's neck, the ball untouched on the tee.

She stood there waiting for him, a thing of infinite daintiness, the one object untouched in that ravaged garden.

Knole possesses an extremely valuable collection of paintings, and the mediaeval furniture is untouched from the time of James I.

Whether it were physical unrest or mental emotion, he did not know, but certainly it was that the letter of the agent remained upon the table untouched between them while Josephine St. Auban pressed to her lips the letter from Jeanne, her maid.

When I was next with them, Louisa was already at the head of a school in which her young sister was the brightest pupil, and to the profits of which she laid no personal claim, all going untouched into the family purse.

I could easily understand and appreciate the sentiment that preserved it untouched as part and parcel in the family associations of the place, and as a relic of the olden time which no one was willing to disturb.

He was still sitting motionless a quarter of an hour later, the food untouched before him, when the intervening door opened suddenly and silently, and like a swooping bird Sylvia came swiftly behind him and laid her two hands on his shoulders.

By reason of the heat her raiment was unfastened for a little, and her throat and the rondure of her bosom showed whiter and more untouched than hawthorn in May.

The difficulty of meeting at breakfast next morning, which had at once suggested itself to N.'s mind, proved a vain fear; for, when he arose, that other bed was as smooth as though it had lain untouched through the night, and the daughters of labour had been gone two hours.

A day later nasturtiums bloomed untouched beside the station platforms, and the air was heavy and liquid with the breath of the Pacific.

Among the leaders were Ken and Dave, who struggled along, side by side, still untouched amid the pelting storm of lead.