If that doesn't touch your heart, then has language failed to accomplish the end for which it was designed--to deceive others.
But let the cat oncetouch its sought-for, and I assure you there is no love lost.
But there was no intention on the part of the diggers, either to touch Ballarat, or its gold.
At length I saw a creek, to which, with some toil, I took my raft; and now the beach was so near, that I felt my oar touch the ground.
My eyes fell on five words, that would seem to have been put there for my good at this time; so well did they cheer my faint hopes, and touchthe true source of my fears.
I air begun to love ye, Andy, an' you bet nobody durst touch ye.
Her last two have had a touch of this thing in them, too.
At the touch of his fingers, Madelene went white and swayed toward him.
An encouraging touch turned the boy's twitching face to hers.
Don't touch 'er yet," she said in low, distinct tones.
In one melodious touch of ivory keys, Helen started the prelude and every one in the room grew silent and attentive.
Some one had to suffer, but the sacrifice must nottouch his mother nor estrange the Waldstrickers.
Ebenezer, suddenly, felt a wild desire to strike, but he dared not touch her, nor dared he go forward one step.
Strange dreams filled the small room with haunting, tangible things which she could reach out and touch if she dared.
Impetuous appreciation of his sincerity caused Tess to touch his arm.
Of the outcome no one in touchwith the situation had a moment's doubt.
All at once, with this touch of normal, unafraid, human companionship, the weird horror of the situation fell away.
At the touchto his pride Burns did pull himself together somewhat, but went on under evident strong excitement.
But if this is the method employed, why do we not cut a band of vibratory nullifications, rather than touch upon a focal point?
One woman, her eyes frightened, reached out furtively to touch her neighbor, apparently to assure herself of his reality.
Men beat the ground carefully, so close to one another that they could touch hands.
Without attempting to touch anything, he proceeded to examine carefully every detail of the apparatus.
But the next time I passed that way I took a view of it to see might it have been one of the Dillons that might be stealing timber; and there was no sign of a cut or a touch in it at all.
I wouldn't touch any food that had been lying about in the night, you wouldn't know what might have happened it.
But the thing it is not right to touch is the ron (seal) for they are in the Sheogue.
But the child wouldn't touch it, for they don't like the leavings of a smith.
And when the people of the house came home they were afraid to touch them, but the man that heard the whistling ate a good meal of them and was none the worse.
And he told her to go to bed, for he wanted to kill her, and he couldn't touch her while she was handling the flax.
And it was that very same day that Hession's little girl got a touchfrom them.
Another: Biddy Early couldn't do nothing for thetouch of the Amadan, because its power was greater than hers.
There are some bushes growing on them and no one, man or woman, will ever put a hand to cut them, no more than they would touch the little bush by the well beyond, that used to have lights shining out of it.
You must put the potatoes out for them before they are put on the table, for they would not touch them if they had been touched by common persons.
The two famous Swiss stations of Kesslerloch and Schweizersbild, near Lake Constance, appear throughout Magdalenian times to have been in very close touch with the cultural advances of Dordogne.
The artist, whose life brought him into close touch with nature and who evidently followed the movements both of the individual animals and of the herds for hours at a time, has rendered his observations in the most realistic manner.
I would like to be sincere, to touch life somewhere.
It put the touchof home, swate home in the stokehole.
The highest among them cannot touch the property or the life of the lowest in rank.
Touch no gold or silver ornaments of the women --the metals are useless to us here--neither take garments nor spoil of any other kind.
Not they; the kingdom of Cunobeline, from the Thames to the western sea, fell to pieces at a touch and it was only among the wild Silures that Caractacus was able to make any great resistance.
The "mechanical man" is a delightfultouch of the old song-writer.
The right-hand chair parts with the underframing below the seat, which gives a touch of lightness to the construction.
The separate table and the costly bowl" touch the rustic poet's pride.
It is about 1730 in date, and exhibits an unusual form in the round cross stretcher, a touch of originality by the maker.
The right-hand one, with arms, is composite in its character, and is in date about 1820, and exhibits a touch of the Sheraton slenderness of style in the splats and the round turning of arms.
No picture of this period is considered artistically complete unless there be a gate-leg table with its picturesque lines adding a technical touch of correctness to interiors.
The front legs are in Jacobean style, and are continued in the same manner as the usual type of oak chair as supports for the arms, but an original touch and naive departure is in the curve given to this upright from the seat upwards.
Bristol had its characteristic earthenware, and the Lowestoft china factory was strongly Suffolk in its homely inscriptions with a touch of dialect.
This touch of representative want of repose is shown in the specimen illustrated (p.
One recalls the long lines of green rushes by the river-bank and the rush-gatherers in idyllic placidity slowly trimming the banks, disturbing coot and moorhen with their punt, and adding another human touch to the lonely angler.
The touch of the foreign craftsman should be easily recognisable, with its piquancy and real artistic feeling.
The country touch always betrays itself in the cabriole leg, whether in chair or in table.
The top rail indicates by its clumsy joinery the touch of the immature country cabinet-maker.
His eyes shut quickly, as though with a sudden touch of pain.
He put his hand on the other's shoulder with a suggestion in his manner of his former self, and with a touch of patronage.
He waited, smiling, to see if she would make another appearance, but she did not, and he heard her touch the keys of the piano at the other end of the drawing-room.
He looked at Holcombe with eyes full of genuine wonder and a touch of fear.
You have served to keep me in touch with the outside world, a world of which I used to know at one time a great deal.
Holcombe felt a sudden touchof loneliness and of being very far from home.
Holcombe stared at the man coldly, and with a touch of pity and contempt.
Some knelt in her path to touch the hem of her garment, while others waved their weapons aloft, vowing they would defend her to the death.
Western Club Woman "Full of exquisite pathos, a tenderness, a delicacy of touch not often equalled.
Soon the rocks and sand burned to the touch as if but a thin crust lay between their feet and a mighty furnace.
The offended barber at first swore by his God not to touch the smallest coin, but at last yielded to persuasion.
Once only had he ventured with humility to touch upon his unrequited sentiment.
Lear," he added, piteously, "was only a touch to me.
Very tender and true was the touch of nature that made these four prisoners, now looking at the ancient letters, akin with those who slept below, and with those who had so lovingly preserved their memory.
There was even a certain feminine touch about the disposition of the bric-à-brac.
His conscience, he answered, would not allow him to touch one penny of the treasure, which could only be legally drawn by a reigning King of England.
But Ralph slowly gat off his horse and stood by Ursula who was on the ground already, but would not touch her, for he was ashamed.
Therewith he took from his pouch a gold piece of Upmeads, which was good, and of the touch of the Easterlings, and held it out to her.
I stood and trembled before him, and longed to touch him.
But at first she hesitated to touch so foul a thing as that which in its corpse-clothes lay before her.
Their minds were like stringed instruments in perfect unison,—each touch by the one was responded to by the other with harmony.
He came in touch with great problems at an early and impressionable age, and they became at once life-problems with him.
It is that striking of the note or the air corresponding to the touch in piano-playing.
The old Italian masters considered the management or touch of the tone as one of the most important requirements in the perfect cultivation of the voice.
By a correct direction of the vibrating column of air; this is done by the right touch (Tonansatz); And, 3.
Tones touch the ear and are instantly felt to be agreeable or disagreeable, while the impressions of painting, poetry, &c.
The great influence of the touch upon the fulness, and especially upon the extent to which tones reach, is again best illustrated by the movements of water.
The slightest touchon any part of the web would warn it instantly.
Puffballs they were familiar with--big, misshapen things which shot at a touch a powder into the air.
Burl spoke again and presently one of the bravest--Cori--dared to approach and touch him.
Careful not to touch any of them, Burl examined the hillocks curiously as he entered the plain.
As elaborately exciting as vintage Van Vogt--with an added touch of C.
Here and there a pear-shaped puffball, Burl's height and half his height again, waited until a chance touch should cause it to shoot upward a curling puff of infinitely fine dust.
The overhanging cloud bank seemed almost to touch the earth, but gradually withdrew.
They did nottouch it--the adults not at all, and even Dik and Tet not for a very long time.
By a stroke of luck, they got into touch with a gardener, who said that he had seen de Beauvallon, in company with d'Ecquevillez, having some surreptitious pistol practice on the morning of the duel.
There was more to follow, for the "personal" touch had yet to be delivered.
Before, however, resuming her journey, she endeavoured to get into touch with her faithful Alemannia.
French elegance, added to Munich art, with a touch of solid English comfort in the shape of easy chairs and couches.
Resolved to assert himself, he got into touch with his London solicitors and instructed them to take the preliminary steps to dissolve his marriage.
The work was well done, for the artist was inspired by his subject; and he painted her wearing a costume of black velvet, with a touch of colour added by red carnations in her head-dress.
Instead, she went to Paris, where such unpleasantnesses as warrants could not touch her.
Accordingly, he got into touch with Lola, offering to have a translation made.
From town to town she travelled during the whole of her reign, for she felt that to rule well and wisely she must be ever in close touchwith her people.
It was terrible to think that an innocent child could be so put out oftouch with decent humanity.
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into the yesterday of the globe, far less touch the myriads of ages spread out beyond.
It has ever been the touch of danger that has rendered it emotional.
Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant-- 5.
When there was a little left--a tablespoon full or such like, they would give it to the little boys and show them how to pour it in the palm of their hand, touch a match to it and then blow.
One of the Yankees was tryin' to help him up and he said, 'Don't you touch me, call Dr.
In such a plight it was Wellington's business to retreat towards the north, so as to remain in touchwith his Prussian allies, while yet that line of retreat was open to him, and before Napoleon should have forced a battle.
He would have seen, scattered upon the roads, small groups of mounted men, here in touch with the last files of a Prussian column, there lost and wandering forward into empty spaces where no soldiers were.
Every section of the great city must be brought into close touch with every other section by cheap and rapid transit.
Among the Amblyopsidae even those with functional eyes depend on touch and vibrations for their food.
On the other hand, there are no reasons why fishes detecting their prey either by smell or touch should not be capable of colonizing caves.
