Use touched in a sentence
Sentences starting with touched
- Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. [2]
- Touched by so much kindness, he yielded and, leaning on the Bithynian's arm, followed her, not into his little cabin, but into the captain's spacious sitting room. [10]
- Touched by the fire of a great idea, she was of those who could have gone out into the world without wallet or scrip, to work passionately for some great end. [11]
Sentences ending with touched
- Cups filled high with wine now circulated among the mad-cap mystics; even Melissa refreshed herself, handing the beaker to her lover, and Diodoros raised to his mouth that place on the rim which her lips had touched. [10]
- Now, it is true, he was justified in thinking her harsh and unfeeling, for where love had once blossomed in her soul, a spring of bitterness now gushed forth poisoning all it touched. [10]
- Then I was touched. [5]
- Jacob's heart was touched. [5]
- In other respects the Discourse has hardly been touched. [6]
- She was, on the contrary, profoundly touched. [9]
- Why was it that she thrilled when she came near to him, that her whole body throbbed and her heart fluttered when their shoulders or arms touched? [11]
- Bias could not tell what seas the Hydra had sailed, nor at what--usually desolate-shores she had touched. [10]
- This buoyant, clear-faced, stalwart figure had sprung suddenly out of the dark into the garish light of sovereign place, and the imagination of the people had been touched. [11]
- The night after Roscoe was taken ill we were passing through the canal, the search-light of the 'Fulvia' sweeping the path ahead of it and glorifying everything it touched. [11]
Short sentences using touched
- He was touched with helplessness. [11]
- Then his fingers touched hers. [10]
- I had touched them. [5]
- He touched her shoulder. [11]
- Gaspard touched his shoulder. [11]
- Armand touched his shoulder. [11]
- But Cauchon was not touched. [5]
- This letter touched Nicholas. [2]
- Then he touched me. [5]
- The remark touched me tenderly. [5]
Sentences containing touched two or more times
- It was the wish to do, to see how far this thing on my shoulders"--he touched his head--"and this great physical machine"--he touched his breast with a thin hand--"would carry me. [11]
- Eglington had indeed touched the old man as he had not been touched in thirty years and more by one of his name. [11]
- That man has touched ma'm'selle--I don't know why, but he has touched her heart. [11]
- I felt that I had touched her as no words of mine had ever touched her before. [11]
- This trouble of his was the common point on which he and Euphrasia touched, and they touched only to quarrel. [9]
- Another curious look displaced it and stayed, as Abdalla silently touched his forehead, his lips, and his heart three times, and then reached out a hand to Dicky and touched his palm. [11]
More example sentences with the word touched in them
- Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble. [11]
- This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
- I never touched you in all the years. [11]
- He said: 'There--now you have touched upon a crying defect in the complaint system. [5]
- And yet, and yet they had touched her heart, and moved her soul to rapture, and filled her eyes with tears. [10]
- To Clemens he wrote: "You have touched me in regard to him, and I will deal gently with his poetry. [5]
- For him, the world had become awry; he abhorred divorce, and that this modern abomination had touched the house of Chiltern was a calamity that had shaken the very foundations of his soul. [9]
- These are the words the Irishman sang: "She was a queen, she stood up there before me, My blood went roarin' when she touched my hand; She kissed me on the lips, and then she swore me To die for her--and happy was the land. [11]
- He shook hands with, and nodded good-humouredly at, Medallion and the Little Chemist, bowed to the avocat, and touched off his greeting to Monsieur De la Riviere with deliberation, not offering his hand--this very reserve a sign of equality not lost on the young Seigneur. [11]
- He touched them with the whip, and they went faster. [11]
- She did it with the greatest caution, but her fingers had hardly touched her, when Selene shrank back with a groan, and before she could undo the sandal, the patient had fainted away. [10]
- Rosy-fingered morn touched with magic colour the masts and scattered sails of the ships upon the great river, and spires and towers quivered with rainbow light. [11]
- He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh. [2]
- The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking. [5]
- She reached out with a kind of shuddering fascination and touched the gold. [9]
- It touched Charley with a kind of awe. [11]
- Medallion, amused, yet with a hushed kind of feeling through all his nerves, pushed the Avocat's tumbler till it touched his fingers. [11]
- She received him with a gentleness which touched him, she let her hand rest in his, she seemed glad to have him with her. [11]
- He was wondering why it was that grief like this had never touched him so before. [11]
- She knew the whole history of the past, and it touched her in a tender spot. [11]
- He touched the white head with his hand. [11]
- And all this while Sir Marhaus touched them not. [5]
- Nilus, who wrote while Orion dictated, giving the document a legal form, was deeply touched by the young man's fore thought and kindness; for in truth, since his desecration of the judgment-seat, he had given him up for a lost soul. [10]
- The favorite song, which the crowd compelled her to repeat, touched lightly the uncertainties of love, expressed in the falsetto pathetic refrain: "Mary's gone away wid de coon. [4]
- The lightness with which she touched life, the unexplored depths of her, guessed at but never fathomed! [9]
- The three years which had passed since she married had touched her not at all to her disadvantage, rather to her profit. [11]
- But at last, when the drama had risen to the pitch of unbearable suspense, he looked down upon the two miserable pyramids at his feet, and touched them. [9]
- The time came when she had learned to listen for his step, when her eyes glistened at meeting him, when the words he uttered were treasured as from something more than a common mortal, and the book he had touched was like a saintly relic. [6]
- There were days when he and I never touched a hook, both being out of humour for study, when he told me yarns of Frederick of Prussia and his giant guard, of Florence and of Venice, and of the court of his Holiness of Rome. [9]
- Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
- Ah, he thought, what a woman she would be if she were touched by the fire of faith! [4]
- Sobieski touched Barry Whalen's arm, and they all stood waiting while a hand slowly opened wide the door of the little room, and, white with a mastered agitation, Byng appeared. [11]
- Satan said they were the worst he had seen; and when he touched them and made them alive, it was just ridiculous the way they acted, on account of their legs not being of uniform lengths. [5]
- Most of them were peasants; and they exhibited no servility in receiving their marks of distinction, but bowed to the king as they would to any other man, and his majesty touched his cocked hat in return. [4]
- Excitement and adventure were as the breath of life to him, and since he had played his little part at the Jersey battle in a bandbox eleven years before, he had touched hands with accidents of flood and field in many countries. [11]
- The young ladies were all in dark blue dresses, touched up with a red ribbon here and there, and wore light straw hats. [6]
- When, however, the weighted body divided the water with a swingeing sound, her face suddenly suffused, as though shame had touched her or some humiliating idea had come. [11]
- By the time we touched the brown-green prairie on the farther side the sand was rolling behind us. [11]
- During the time we lived in the Thiergarten my mother's hand scarcely ever touched my face except in a caress. [10]
- And once more, Wassef touched his breast, his lips, and his forehead. [11]
- Perhaps his vanity was touched, for there must be something in, him if such a woman could love him. [4]
- Miss Forsythe's pride was touched, and the remark was not softened to her by the, air of half banter with which the sentence concluded. [4]
- The kind Doctor was touched, and left her a moment to her thoughts. [6]
- Sirona's window alone was touched by the morning sun. [10]
- In fact, I was too late, but I begged so hard that the governor was touched by my brave devotion to my country's cause--those are the words he used--and so he yielded, and allowed me to come. [5]
- The gunner, too, was sick unto death, but "hope of trucking" kept him on his feet,--a Yankee, it should seem, when he first touched the shore of New England. [3]
- The fairest future was promised to Balbilla; the bull to whom she had to offer a cake, with her face averted, had approved of her gift and had touched her hand with his moist muzzle. [10]
- The sewer water was not an offence to them, the corpse did not revolt them; the sacred water had touched both, and both were now snow-pure, and could defile no one. [5]
- Whatever he did was judiciously conceived and perfectly executed; it satisfied the head, but rarely touched the heart. [4]
- As chastening, it was good exercise; but when now and again the name of Sainte-Helene rang towards him, a cloud passed over his face; that touched him in a tender corner. [11]
- Its curved portico was capped by a wrought-iron railing, its long windows were touched with purple, and its low garret--set like a deckhouse on the wide roof--suggested hidden secrets of the past. [9]
- Standing up, Orlando was about to call out again in peremptory tones, when, suddenly, the spirit of death touched his senses, and his heart stood still for an instant. [11]
- Crowning the shadows was a splendid helmet of light, rich with the dyes of the morning; the pines were touched with a brilliant if austere warmth. [11]
- As his hand wandered over the body towards the heart, it touched something that rattled against a button. [11]
- Down the winding walk from the hill, touched by a distant electric light, the loitering people, in couples and in groups, seemed no more in real life than the supernumeraries in a scene at the opera. [4]
- He mounted the wagon, touched the dead man's shoulder, and then, with one hand, loosened the waistcoat and felt the heart. [11]
- Not he; but virtue passed through the hem of their parchment and leather garments whenever he touched them, as the precious drugs sweated through the bat's handle in the Arabian story. [6]
- She pressed along vigilantly by a descending path, until her feet touched rocky ground. [11]
- There was not very much to cheer her in the few events that touched her interests during this time. [14]
- But tranquilly the venerable Duke crossed his limbs behind his ears and said: "My friend has touched the marrow of our mighty discovery. [5]
- This was the Vale of the Blue, and she had touched it with meaning for him, and gone. [9]
- When I stood upon the summit of the Gorner-Grat, the two prominent silver peaks of Monte Rosa were just touched with the sun, and its great snow-fields were visible to the glacier at its base. [4]
- He was reaching up to read it when the Doctor touched him lightly. [6]
- She had looked up to him as to a mountain peak whose jagged summit touched the sky when her father and others had related his knightly deeds, his victories over the most powerful foes, and his peerless statesmanship. [10]
- Then he touched up his horse. [11]
- He looked her up and down, at first glance with something like boldness, but instantly he touched his hat. [11]
- He received Ruth's unwearied attentions with ardent gratitude, and when he gazed into her faithful eyes, when her hand touched him, her soft, deep voice penetrated the depths of his soul, an unexampled sense of happiness filled his breast. [10]
- It was not until I was sixteen that a player came and touched the keys of my soul, and it awoke, bewildered, at these first tender notes. [9]
- The triumphal arch under her, and the garlands which decorated the wooden structure, had caught her before she touched the pavement. [10]
- I had received two slight wounds, and I had not touched my enemy. [11]
- Harvey's face would twitch, and his fingers clench of themselves as he touched his cap. [9]
- But presently he turned, touched the arm of the old man, and said meaningly: "I know. [11]
- Everything Aleck touched turned to fairy gold, and heaped itself glittering toward the firmament. [5]
- You have to turn back to Shakespeare for any talk of peasants and clowns and shepherds to compare with the conversations in this novel, so racy are they of the soil, and yet so touched with the finest art, the enduring art. [4]
- Old Herr Vorchtel's treatment of the man who had inflicted so deep a sorrow upon him touched her inmost soul. [10]
- When she was touched, she jerked her bound legs and looked wildly yet simply at everybody. [2]
- Her face was touched with the light that shone from the Prairie Star. [11]
- The words had touched upon a happy memory, I thought. [5]
- Next I gently touched up the newest stranger--the lion of the day, the gorgeous journeyman tailor from Quincy. [5]
- Her hand has touched them--it is an accolade--they are noble, now. [5]
- So the Spaniards touched them on a tender point that time. [5]
- Charley had now touched the three, and the whole man was alive. [11]
- They had scarcely touched the shore when the click of a musket was heard, and a "Qui-va-la? [11]
- My lips softly touched the red lips on the canvas; and, as I was all the happier, I fancied that my mother in Heaven must be glad too. [10]
- When her head touched the pillow she fell asleep.... [9]
- When the boat touched the levee at New Orleans she bade good-by to her comrades on the _Grand Mogul_ and moved her kit ashore. [5]
- It would have touched the heart of a brute. [5]
- The old man touched the governor's arm. [11]
- We have only touched the edges of a vast subject, and shall be quite satisfied if we have suggested thought in the direction indicated. [4]
- Virginia herself never touched that cloth to her it seemed the shroud upon a life of happiness that was dead and gone. [9]
- Three times they touched palms, and then Abdalla saluted Renshaw in the same fashion, making the gestures once only. [11]
- Sleep had not touched Orlando's eyes when, sitting down by the stones which were to mark his resting-place, he waited for Louise to wake. [11]
- Three or four touched me, and one pierced my hair and remained hanging in it with the feather at the end of the shaft. [10]
- For she had touched me upon a sore spot. [9]
- Thin a hand touched me face--the same as you, Coolin, the same as you. [11]
- She had been touched in time, and she had never looked back. [11]
- Philip had been touched in that nerve called military honour. [11]
- His vanity was touched in its most susceptible spot. [4]
- Chaudiere had been touched in its most superstitious corner. [11]
- Then, kneeling, he touched his turbaned head to the ground three times, and as the sun drew down behind the sharp, bright line of sand that marked the horizon, he prayed devoutly and long. [11]
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