The church, like society, withdraws her skirts from contact with the fallen sister.
In a few moments, the point of contact was established.
And he thought of the circumstances that confined them, like that, together, in the close contact of that motor car.
The Attack" gives us an example of the terrible feeling of terror that suddenly enters the proud soul of a young man at his first contact with certain realities.
Hence he sought to place his nose in contact with Flopit's, for he had perceived on the front of the mysterious stranger a buttony something which might possibly be a nose.
He had seen himself gently placing his box of candy in her hands, some of his fingers just touching some of hers and remaining thus lightly in contact to the very last.
He also noted that an equilibrium could not be restored in the bottle by inward communication or contact of the parts, but only by a communication, formed without the bottle between its top and bottom.
But does this prove that the explosion of gunpowder is in no manner due to the contact of fire?
History shows no trace of the contact which would be required for such influence.
These vital convictions in the soul of Jesus are communicated bycontact from generation to generation.
Yet when applied by Mohammed to the Arabian mind, it was like a spark coming in contact with gunpowder.
But does it follow that it effects nothing when brought into contact with one which is inflammable or explosive?
Sometimes it is by coming in contact with other civilized nations, which gives them an ideal superior to anything before known.
Each tribe had its god, whom it regarded as a magnified master or ruler, and with whom it held communion by sacrifice, the blood being brought in contact with the god and the victim devoured by the tribesmen.
When therefore they came in contact with foreign religions, they were not protected by any profound conviction of the truth of their own, and were exposed to the full force of the new ideas.
This religion, in its course from east to west, came in contact with beliefs and usages with which, though foreign to its own nature, it yet came to terms.
Thus the Greek gods grew up in the period before Greece was awakened to new thoughts by contact with foreign peoples.
In early manhood he entered the service of Khadija, a rich widow; and he made journeys in her affairs to Syria and Palestine, where he may have seen places famous in Jewish history and may also have come in contact with Christianity.
The strong missionary impulse of the infant religion brought it very early incontact with Gentile life, and the question soon arose, whether those who refused to become Jews could yet claim a share in the Messiah.
And save us, Indra, from the spite Of sprites that haunt us in the night, Our rites disturb by contact vile, Our hallowed offerings defile.
It has been contended that the Jews derived their later doctrine of a future life from their contact with Persia, but it is not necessary to account for it in this way.
The question has been much discussed whether the new religion of Arabia was due to contact with Judaism or with Christianity.
Iran in fact had not one religion but several, and thus the problem is to trace how these successively entered into contact with Mazdeism or Zoroastrianism, which is the religion most native to Iran, and were embodied in it.
Naturally, I have points of contact with the working class which are lacking to most educated men; a little chance, and I should myself have been a mechanic or something of the kind.
I think it was the Sunday preceding the contact with Lee that headquarters spent in Frederick, Maryland.
I was always particularly careful to conceal from every one with whom I was in contact when scouting that I was an expert telegrapher.
It is prepared by melting pig-iron in furnaces having such a shape that the molten metal can be stirred or "puddled" in contact with the air.
In the case of all other animals this is a very simple matter, they simply live in immediate contactwith their food, migrating or perishing if the supply gives out.
Intercommunication increases knowledge, and under the conditions that formerly prevailed, there was a lack of the breadth of knowledge that comes with the mutualcontact of peoples.
The better class of them, in contact with the English, realize that education is a power; and they have labored for years to improve their countrymen.
I have heard of a young man not older than Mobarak who lost his life rather than come in contact with the saliva of a foreigner; but I doubt if many would carry their fanaticism to that extent," he added.
There were too many Bramins in the ranks, and they were fanatics; and biting off the cartridge brought their lips in contact with the grease, which was religious pollution to them.
But everyone that you've had any contact with since you've been here is being checked thoroughly.
Stay in Palm Beach and contactme pronto if anything happens.
I told him about the so-called interview with Blekeke that morning, and how in the afternoon I had tried to contact those SRI members who I knew had been living in town.
Here we left the cars, which came thumping against each other successively, as they stopped; but the points of contact being padded, prevented any very violent shock to the occupants.
With this organ, which is supposed by naturalists, from the extreme pain felt, when brought in contact with the back of the hand, to secrete a poisonous or acrid fluid, the animal secures his prey.
I touched the chair inadvertently, while I waited for Miss Lawton's appearance, and my hand coming accidentally in contact with a hard substance, mere idle curiosity impelled me to draw it out.
And because many of these last were American soldiers they formed the first point of field contact between our Red Cross and our army and so are fairly entitled to a post of high honor in the pages of this book.
Moreover, it was to maintain the necessary contact with the United States Army and Navy authorities, so that the Red Cross could be prepared to render prompt service in the event of medical or surgical emergencies.
The field service of our Red Cross--its first contact with the men of our army in actual conflict--was second to neither of these.
The contact of the cold water was not likely to have much effect: since they had been already exposed to it for more than forty hours.
Being thus brought in actual contact with the insects, the old sailor saw that the quickest way of getting out of the scrape was to cross over to the other side.
Get close to him as they might, and spring as high as they were able, they could not bring the tips of their daggers in contact with his skin.
It had so chanced that, during the whole of his confinement, Cuthbert had, in the person of the surgeon who attended him, been daily in contact with a mind very deeply imbued with serious and severe principles.
There were far more unpleasant and painful experiences to come than the petty mortifications of this his first contact with troops.
The warmth of the contact and the additional sense of protection combined to work wonders.
He had done his best not to soil himself by contact with certain types--among men especially.
George had fallen once more under the Parliamentary illusion, as soon as he was again within reach of the House of Commons and in frequent contact with Fontenoy.
The glasses of our spectacles, as they came in contact with the air expired, were covered with vapor.
If she chooses she may take it in her hands and place it in contactwith any part of her body.
The knees first supported her body, then it rested on these and the elbows, and finally her face was brought in actual closecontact with the tiled floor.
Persons who saw her in these states declared that, while lying on the bed, her whole body was raised up more than a foot high, the heels alone being in contact with the bed.
At the same time the feet were brought together so that the dorsum of the right was in contact with the sole of the left foot.
There was a jagged cut on one side of Perkins' head where he must have come in contact with some part of the plane in the crackup.
I think his charm had been developed by his new experiences, and by the number of strangers he had been brought into contact with; he had learned an eager and winning sort of courtesy, which grew and increased every year.
The danger of both is that the process is completed at perhaps too early a date, and that the product is too consciously a finished one, needing to be enlarged and modified by contact with the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contact" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
