The key to the enemy's defence was Point 79: the trench here, and a collection of dugouts around it, had been almost untouched by our heavy guns.
The village of Ronssoy was 1,600 yards away; between it and the attackers was a girdle of little woods, still untouched of green, and a number of small intersecting lanes and ditches.
Hopes ran high and all were pleased beyond measure to be leaving the mire and clay for the green untouched country beyond.
It fingered a new range of emotions, untouched by the doings of men.
His men were untouched by the worldly attraction of Arianism; they had no tradition that it was "the thing" or "smart" to adopt the old court heresy which was offensive to the poorer mass of Europeans.
The third, which at times was untouched by the overflow, produced palms, figs, and other fruit-trees.
Such was the opinion of Lord Clarendon in the prime of life, when, yet untouched by party feeling, he had no cause to plead, and no quarrel with truth.
Bayle had left persecutors to fly to fanatics, both equally appealing to the Gospel, but alike untouched by its blessedness!
From this point the road to Skinner's was smooth and easy, and quite untouched of snow.
The purely brotherly terms on which McTaggart met his girl friend were still untouched by sentiment.
Beauty as beauty left her untouched or filled her with a faint distress.
She was a beautiful vision in her soft white gown, quite untouched by any color, her hair piled high upon her small, finely shaped head.
That our rifles and revolvers were left untouched was greatly to our advantage: yet we felt it was most humiliating for armed men to have been so thoroughly fleeced by a few black rascals.
Untouched in his pocket-book lay the sum he had long ago set apart for their purchase; and there was very little in it besides.
Here and there lay bare, grey fields and stubble land, with a dreary wintry look; but the low pastures were green yet, and the gaudy autumn flowers lingered untouched along the fences and waysides.
Since those gun-running days I have seen much fighting and many killed and wounded, and the untouched have generally been cursing something or somebody, giving relief to the strain on their nerves by cursing hard.
But here we have the first yield of that saving and life-giving heart, gushing forth spontaneously, pure and untouched by the unclean hand of man, dropping as dew upon the ground.
It shows us that a Roman education, while it enlarges the view and sweeps away local prejudices, yet leaves untouched the salient points of national character.
I do not doubt that readers will feel that some fact of an important character in Mr. Russell's statement has been left untouched by the previous analysis--even upon the supposition that the criticisms are just.
There is somewhat which is untouched in the contention of incompatibles.
The value of the glorious collection of pictures, flawless great works, authentic, untouched since they left the master's hands, could only be proved in the fiery furnace of a saleroom.
He had reached the farther court, untouched by Sir Christopher and still of the fashion of the great cardinal and Harry Tudor, before he saw the King ahead of him, a solitary figure in the grey afternoon.
He found the King had moved and now sat beside the bureau piled with the untouched correspondence.
Barbarians in the midst of an industrial community, they have lived their own life of slaying and playing, untouched by the culture of the world below them.
The Celt--that is to say, the mountaineer and the man of the untouched country--reproduces his kind much more rapidly than the Teuton.
There were supplies here too, lying untouched in ageless containers within a lizard-skin pouch.
But under water was a smooth silver hull, shining and untouched by the years.
Not one house in the town itself is left untouched by shell-fire.
They commit unbelievable horrors, because the thing that moves them is raw force, untouched by fine purpose and the elements of mercy.
It partook of the character of religious worship, and left untouched and untamed in their savage hearts the instinct of resistance to all earthly claims of authority.
By dwelling almost exclusively upon the story of his sufferings, they excited the emotional nature of the ignorant, and left their intellects untouched and dormant.
They were blind to the hideous necessity of their summons, untouched by disgust at the physical processes involved.
