But it was not only that men would die for the name--men will die for anything that touches their imagination or their sympathy--but they lived for it and showed themselves to be indeed a "new creation.
The mantic element is receptive of impressions and of anticipations by means of feelings, and without reasoning process (asyllogistos) it touches the future when it can get clear of the present.
But it was a very long time before one of these could bring himself to distinguish his person from the rest by means of any of those added touches which are usually so eagerly sought after by the dusky races.
His letters, especially those to his friends the Crofts, of Stillington, abound, as before, in touches of the same amusing vanity.
But in the famous discourse upon an unlucky text--the sermon preached at the chapel of the English Embassy, in Paris--there are touches of unclerical raillery not a few.
As well might we say that the last light touches of the sculptor's chisel upon the perfected statue are more skilful than its first vigorous strokes upon the shapeless block.
Further cell-divisions occur, and the invagination becomes deeper, until the invaginating wall nearly touches the wall which has retained its primitive position.
It is only because the minute constitution of matter is no longer a secret to us that the theory of germ within germ now touches the absurd.
Immerse also suggests more absolute completeness of the action; one may dip his sleeve or dip a sponge in a liquid, if he but touches the edge; if he immerses it, he completely sinks it under, and covers it with the liquid.
Any round body rolls which continuously touches with successive portions of its surface successive portions of another surface; a wagon-wheel rolls along the ground.
I tell you I sicken at his glance and shiver when hetouches me.
This is a thing that touches me very nearly, and therefore I beg a particular answer as to what he says to it.
While intruding upon your reserve with his solemn, stark and almost hostile novelty, he makes at the same time a strange appeal--he touches upon chords in our nature of which we ourselves were barely cognisant.
So when all give up they are told that just before the assistant leaves the room, the other player secretlytouches some person or thing, or perhaps indicates what the object is with his foot or perhaps sits on it, if it be a chair or stool.
The moment the Medusa touches its prey the cells burst and the threads spring out.
On the surface are a few very sensitive hairs, and the moment any small insect alights on the leaf and touches one of these hairs the two halves of the leaf close up quickly and catch it.
At the same time it touches and moves me, when this boy shows such deep, tender feeling, such large sympathy, that he captivates me irresistibly.
But I should like to know to what degree this miserable conduct touches your heart, annoys you, embitters you.
Concerning my letter to YOU, it touches upon a point to which I must urgently return once more, because I want your definite reply as soon as possible.
That you allow yourself to be ordered about by me is too kind of you, andtouches me deeply.
The old lady quite touches me by her love and sympathetic insight.
There is something not only of wild sweetness, but touches of pathos even in its merriest measures.
Indeed, only when the sunlight touches a steeple to gold does one realise that each such patch is a human settlement.
The thing touches me too closely, it vexes me too deeply to think that the Russian character should be degenerating.
It touchesin no place the tract, hitherto erroneously supposed to comprise the Gore.
This work should interest every individual, because ittouches every one who ever journeys by train.
The hoary headed patriot of '76 still tells the mournful story to the listening infant, till the loss of his country touches his heart, and patriotism fires his breath.
Under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, two million American soldiers received the final touches in their military training and were transported safely overseas.
The welfare of the troops touches my responsibility, as Commander-in-Chief to the mothers and fathers and kindred of the men who came to France in the impressionable period of youth.
That may be, but this is a case which touches me closely and has necessarily received my careful attention.
Apart from that, the peculiarities, the attitudes, the little touches of manner, are often more or less faithfully reproduced, although the medium may have known nothing of the person concerned.
It is a sort of pale blue, but it is white and quite light when it touches you.
Besides this the music expresses feelings in the most naive manner: the terrible by sounds in the bass, the frivolous by rapid touches in the treble, etc.
And therefore this novel is accessible to all men, touches people of all nations and classes, young and old, and has lasted to our times, and will yet last for thousands of years to come.
The story of Joseph, translated into the Chinese language, touches a Chinese.
Little touches of effeminacy about his dress failed to take the attention away from its shabbiness.
Something in the work we had been doing, putting the last touches to my wedding dress, led her to speak of her own, and of my father as a young man.
Here and there were touches that suggested that if Henry moved his income up a notch or two, Pauline's taste might not be able to keep pace with it.
In the late afternoon Natalia went down the stairs on the back veranda to inspect the last touches that Mrs. Jervais and Mrs. Houston were giving the supper table.
The sentiment, tenderness, humour, and delicate touches which pervade every page will give it a lasting popularity and a foremost place in the ranks of the most instructive kind of fiction--the moral novel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "touches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
