At dessert there is the same deadness, stiffness, and restraint that marked the first course; hardly has a tinge of colour touched the ladies' cheeks or noses.
All this lamentation touched the kind-hearted candidate and linked itself in his feelings to other lamentations and other sorrows.
The poet's moustache was turned down, his hair brushed forward, and his pleasant face showed its complexion of ruddy brown between whiskers touched with grey.
Her own pleasure was complete when her hand touched Paul's, as accident brought them together in the same boat or the same carriage.
It seems probable that only the surface of the body was burnt, and when many bodies were together in the grave, some were not touched at all.
They may now be touched over with a little lunar caustic, or nitric acid, or a little concentrated acetic acid or aromatic vinegar.
When this has been done for about a minute, the warm dry cover of the instrument is to be placed upon the resinous plate, and touched with the finger.
It explodes with unparalleled violence by friction or percussion, or when strongly heated, or when touched with strong sulphuric acid; the metal is reduced, and a large volume of gaseous matter suddenly liberated.
Many careful observers say this species keeps in its nest the Aphis radicans, which when its abdomen is touched by the ant, excretes a saccharine substance on which the ants feed.
The animals seem to have an instinct for disinfection, and lick substances touched with this acid.
The affected part is wetted with the above night and morning, and when dry is touched with a little simple ointment, cold cream, or pomatum.
Their filaments are so elastic that if touched before the flower has expanded, they suddenly spring from their in curved position, and scatter the pollen broadcast.
In Turkey the fruit is given to horses touched or broken in the wind, but in this country horses will not eat it.
During our last epidemic of cholera it puzzled the sanitary inspectors of a northern town why the tenants of one cottage in an infected row were not touched by the plague.
I touched mother's arm and showed her the address, saying in a low voice, "Shall I ask if it is for them?
I don't know how she could ever stand alone, as she may have to do any day," he added with a little sigh which touched me.
The picture of them in their pathetic timidity touched me curiously.
The Engineer touched his inside pocket, felt the bulge of his pocketbook containing his passport, turned down the Ring Strasse, and stopped at the Opera House.
The allusion to the ungentlemanly foreclosure proceedings touched his funny-bone in a peculiar manner, and set him to laughing again whenever he thought of it.
He seems to have cared for the cosmology of Epicurus chiefly as it touched humanity through ethics and religion.
He has a beautiful Græco-Roman face, touched with sadness or ineffable reflection.
The sea is calm, touched here and there on the fringes of the bays and headlands with silvery light; and impendent crags loom black and sombre against the feeble azure of the moonlit sky.
Don Juan was a myth before Mozart touched him with the magic wand of music.
Few pictures bring the splendid Milanese Court so vividly before us as these portraits of the Bentivogli: they are, moreover, very precious for the light they throw on what Luini could achieve in the secular style so rarely touchedby him.
A nobler scene is nowhere swept from palace windows than this, which Castiglione touched in a memorable passage at the end of his 'Cortegiano.
Then, as if built up by music, a rainbow rose and grew above Leucadia, planting one foot on Actium and the other on Ithaca, and spanning with a horseshoe arch that touched the zenith, the long line of roseate cliffs.
In front stretches the lagoon, tinted with a pale light from the east, and beyond this pallid mirror shines Venice--a long low broken line, touched with the softest roseate flush.
The big events are touched upon, the mounting of all these little plays is simplicity itself, and they have stood the test of frequent school performance.
Madam Washington is seen approaching from the background, center, a stately figure in Colonial dress, her hair slightly touched with gray.
To-day the past has opened wide her door, Scenes long since gone return to us once more, Touched with the alchemy of history's gold.
And although we have touched upon them above, yet we think it right to give a brief, bare, and simple enumeration of them in this place.
For men have hitherto dwelt but little, or rather only slightly touched upon experience, while they have wasted much time on theories and the fictions of the imagination.
Again, let the required nature be the polarity of the steel needle when touched with the magnet.
He reached out his hand, and touched the lifeless body of Drake.
Never shall it be touched by a traitorous hand as long as I live.
Then as Ferror passed Fred, he slightly touched him with his foot.
And though afterward Cuffy did many things that he ought not to have done, he never, never touched a porcupine again.
At the same time he pointed to my uncle, whom we could just see perched upon a knoll, and touched his head to indicate that he was mad.
A child might have read their dismal story, and yet it was not until I touched that actual piece of mankind that the full horror of the charnel ocean burst upon my spirit.
I was about to refuse, but Rorie touched me as if in warning; and indeed I had already thought better of the movement.
The river might run for ever; the birds fly higher and higher till they touched the stars.
He thought her a vision, and he touched the cold floor with his hands to see if he were awake.
Very naively, in her letter to Balzac, in her criticism she acknowledged the fact that the author had touched an exposed nerve, and this helped to take the sting out of her condemnation.
All that the foremost of our contemporary thinkers have written and said was suggested and touched upon by William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, with like conclusions.
The room swam and then teetered up and down, and everything seemed touched with a strange, wondrous light.
Petra at once comprehended why she should do it, but that the mother assigned no reason, touched her.
But after the first fears she had come to understand that, although other women often touched the poet and artist in him, none save herself knew the essential fidelity and the chivalrous tenderness of the husband.
Certainly the dullest eyes must see at this hour, when, at the behest of the approaching sun, outlines were cleared of all that was shadowy and fanciful, and colours were touched to buoyant life.
Where the streams touched were sometimes great whirls (one not many yards from our boat) that looked as if they would suck anything down.
His private history is given very fully for the first part of his life, but is very lightly touched upon during his residence at Greenwich.
But whatever he touched he dealt with ably and in the most fearless truthseeking manner, and left original and vigorous opinions.
The cold seeped through their suits, chilled their bones, touched their arms and legs like a thousand pin pricks and lay like needles in their lungs until every movement was sheer agony.
He touched his arm and began edging back until he was well clear of the base of the rocket.
He watched until it touched down teetering on its stern tubes for a moment before coming to rest; then he turned and hurried to overtake Prochaska.
He kept his eyes on Crag, seemingly rooted to the spot until Prochaska touched his arm.
Crag touched the braking rockets from time to time, gently, precisely, keeping his eyes moving between the radar altimeter and speed indicator while the Chief fed him the course data.
But my lady and he touched hands full oft during a week, and always he would look at her with a different look from that which his eyes did wear at other times.
Touched by this delicate attention, Balthazar would, he thought, praise his goodness and his personal qualities to Marguerite.
Her eyes caressed her children, her voice with its yearning intonations touched their hearts, her hand showered blessings on their heads.
But the table fell to pieces as he touched it, in the cornet there remained only a few fragments of leathern belts which the rats had gnawed, and in the bag nothing but broken bits of stone.
It was late when his foot touched the shore, and took the path towards the forest.
Then the gold and silver staffs seemed to spring from the earth before him, but this time also he overcame; and though the fruit from the magic tree almost touched his mouth, he brushed it aside and went steadily on.
And waving his wand he touched with it the chest of the youth, who became a pillar of stone.
Then they took a boat and rowed up to some rocks, and as they touched the land Gille Mairtean changed himself into a fair woman, who laughed and said to Ian Direach, 'I will give the king a fine wife.
The princess carelessly touched the wall of her room, which was wont to reflect the warm red light of the fire on the hearth, and found her hand quite wet.
But just as he was passing through the door the tip of the sheath touched it, and the door gave a loud shriek.
But the instant it touched her mouth a cold shiver ran through her.
The fairy Tulip who, in spite of her anger, was very softhearted, was touched at their distress, and flew quickly to their help.
But the rays of the sun pierced through the thickness of the cloth, and as they passed the doorpost she gave a spring, and the tip of one of her feathers touched the post, which gave a scream, and brought the giant back in three strides.
At last there came an old, grey-bearded man who looked at the horse and agreed to buy it; but the moment he touched it the horse began to kick and plunge.
As he ceased speaking he touched one of the cows on her forehead, and she stepped along the path, with the two others one on each side.
And I asked the Butcher-bird for power, and he followed his Road of Light, and touched the ground four times with his tail, and came to me.
Something in it touched her as she perused the simple words, written so evidently with a hand which trembled and a heart that was full.
It was something better than mere material possessions and indulgences which he had meant to give the child whose lonely fate had touched him to so much pity under the palm trees of S.
He saw that she was perfectly happy, as yet; that whatever thorns might be beneath the nuptial couch, they had not touched her.
But the strength of his passion in the morning interviews with her had touched some fibre, some nerve in her, which had been dumb and numb before.
The emotion of joy and timidity mingled touched him keenly in that moment, when he, with his millions of gold and of friends, had so strongly realised his own loneliness.
I used to be quickly touched to any kind of feeling; but the whole of life seems cold to me, and profitless.
As she chattered she clasped it round the throat of her cousin, who grew red, then white, as the pearlstouched her skin.
She turned to him with her brightest smile, and her hand touched his with a gesture caressing and timid.
She refused to be comforted; wept incessantly, and touched my heart by gentle reproaches.
He was well enough pleased when he touched the two sequins with which I rewarded him.
A satiric smile touched the face of Cunningham without warming it, "That active imagination of yours again.
His finger touched the reproduction of his cousin's photograph.
The cattleman jumped out from the machine and touched the fat man on the arm as he was waddling past.
Have you touched the body or moved anything since you came?
As Kirby walked to the Equitable Building to keep his appointment with his cousins, it would not have surprised him if at any moment an officer had touched him on the shoulder and told him he was under arrest.
She roasted him to a turn, told how he was crooked as a dog's hind leg an' every deal he touched was dirty.
But if any one touched him, he yelled out like a mad creature, and with a peculiar sort of scream.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "touched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
