This time the queen replied that she hoped her dutiful and loving subjects would not take away her prerogative, which is the choicest flower in her garden, but promised to examine all patents and abide the touchstone of the law.

Lord Shaftesbury's devotion to the cause of Labour led him to make the Factory Acts a touchstone of character.

Work had to be found for him, and Shakespeare, whose difficulties were stepping-stones to his triumphs, gave him Touchstone and Feste, the Porter in Macbeth and the Fool in Lear.

She knew the touchstone to her father's emotion.

In that work I remember he states that a finger-print affords evidence requiring no corroborationa most dangerous and misleading statement which has been fastened upon eagerly by the police, who have naturally been delighted at obtaining a sort of magic touchstone by which they are saved the labour of investigation.

He would have played Touchstone in "As You Like It," not Jacques, because Touchstone is in the vital part of the play.

For when the brain of some man has felt the light of a new idea, a sneering criticism serves us a touchstone for it.

Quaedam videntur et non sunt; compare her to another standing by, 'tis a touchstone to try, confer hand to hand, body to body, face to face, eye to eye, nose to nose, neck to neck, &c., examine every part by itself, then altogether, in all postures, several sites, and tell me how thou likest her.