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Sentences ending with touches

I did wish Tom Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches. [5]
Lay her in shore and stand by to jump with the stern-line the moment she touches. [5]
Paige, the inventor, seemed at last to have given it its finishing touches. [5]
There is a perfect consciousness in every form of wit --using that term in its general sense--that its essence consists in a partial and incomplete view of whatever it touches. [6]
Unfortunately he always 'muffs' anything he touches. [4]
It was a caricature of Caesar, whom he had seen at the Kanopic Gate, modeled while he was in the house of Polybius, with a few happy touches. [10]
There was also a thoroughly comic figure and one with many humorous touches. [10]
Presently he said: "It touches. [5]

More example sentences with the word touches in them

The chief-priest was wont to bear himself stoutly in the field, and now he gives up the command because a dying woman touches his heart. [10]
The last touches were now being given to the work. [10]
One evening, three weeks or so after the conversation with Ethel Wing just related, Honora's husband entered her room as her maid was giving the finishing touches to her toilet. [9]
Else why do we take pleasure--a pleasure so deep that it touches the heart like melancholy--in the common drama of the opera? [4]
A man's tongue wags along quietly enough, but his pen begins prancing as soon as it touches paper. [6]
It was a vigorous melodrama with some touches of true Western feeling. [11]
She seated herself upon the scarlet seat with a gesture of thanks, while the salutations and greetings increased; then she awaited events, thrilled by the weird and pleasant music, with its touches of Eastern fantasy. [11]
I felt airy touches on my shoulders and my hair, and I shrank from them and cringed, and was not ashamed to show this fear, for I saw the others doing the like, and knew that they were feeling those faint contacts too. [5]
There are some touches of description here, vivid, high-colored, not so much pictures as hints and impressions for pictures. [6]
If her hand touches mine, it is not a thrill of passion I feel running through me, but a very different emotion. [6]
When a man touches me--I cannot bear it, it is horrible, dreadful! [10]
And whoever it touches can make his will and contract for the funeral. [5]
He had come to put the last touches to the works he had begun, and proposed to make a fresh attempt to win the favor of the man whom he now knew to be the Emperor. [10]
It adds nothing to human knowledge, it solves none of the problems of life, it touches none of the questions of social science, it is not a philosophical treatise, and it is not a dozen things that it might have been. [4]
Hermon had intended to add a few more touches to his Demeter, but he could not do it. [10]
Yes, whatever old thing Mrs. Eddy touches gets something new by the contact--something not thought of before by any one--something original, all her own, and copyrightable. [5]
Ah, it is these little touches of nature that move one to tears in these far-off foreign lands. [5]
I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne. [4]
To our eyes the legitimate drama of to-day is the one in which the day is reflected, both in costume and speech, and which touches the affections, the passions, the humor, of the present time. [4]
Even while putting the last touches of the file to the Demeter, for which Archias's devout daughter posed as your model, another whom you could not banish from your mind filled your imagination. [10]
It was in the famous summer of 1876, too, that Mark was putting the finishing touches to Tom Sawyer. [5]
His clothes were the clothes of the Western man; and yet there was a manner of wearing them, there were touches which were evidence to the watchful observer that he was of other spheres. [11]
When told that the Caesar was close at hand, she had only time to raise herself a little higher on her cushions, push back her hair, and let Iras, with a few hasty touches, adjust the folds of her mourning robes. [10]
The Bible is the best illustration of the literature of power, for it always concerns itself with life, it touches it at all points. [4]
This it is that truly touches the chords of sympathy; and those who heard Mr. Clay never failed to be moved by it, or ever afterward forgot the impression. [7]
When the last stroke died, that depressing stillness followed again, and as before I was staring at those waxen faces and feeling those airy touches on my hair and my shoulders once more. [5]
Upon her practical strength of body and mind had come that rugged poetical sense, which touches all who live the life of mountain and prairie. [11]
Lali, recovering herself, spoke a few soft words of congratulation, and then appeared to busy herself in putting little touches to Marion's dress, that soft persuasion of fingers which does so much to coax mere cloth into a sort of living harmony with the body. [11]
In salutation the son reverently touches the father's forehead with a small silver implement tipped with vermillion paste which leaves a red spot there, and in return the son receives the father's blessing. [5]
She touches everything so daintily, she hits off a character in a sentence, she gives the pith of a dialogue without tediousness, she mimics without vulgarity; her narration sparkles, but it does n't sting. [4]
It is charmingly situated on a projecting point of gray rocks veined with color, enlivened by touches of scarlet bushes and brilliant flowers planted in little spots of soil, contrasting with the evergreen shrubs. [4]
And let a servant bring the trunk here that the owner may open it in the presence of us all and before any one else touches the contents. [10]
And anything that seems to touch its welfare, touches me. [9]
Where Nature herself rules, she knows how to guard beauty and purity, but where man touches her, the former is impaired and the latter sullied. [10]
For a despotic ruler is like a fiery steed; the latter endeavors to kick him who touches his wounds with intent to heal; the former punishes him who lays a hand on the weak or failing points of his diseased mind. [10]
When the chilly rag touches one's warm flesh, it makes him start with sudden violence, and gasp for breath just as men do in the death-agony. [5]
While Lamperi was putting the last touches to her toilet, a priest came for her, as Escovedo had arranged, exactly two hours after her arrival. [10]
It is wholly prospective, and touches neither person nor property of any loyal citizen, in which particulars it is just and proper. [7]
There it is pleasant enough, for a spring bedews the stony soil and there, as wherever any moisture touches the desert, aromatic plants thrive, and umbrageous bushes grow. [10]
Whoso touches him perils his life! [5]
Happening to look over my shoulder, I saw the peak of Marcy gleam rosy in the sky (I can't help it that Marcy is fifty miles off, and cannot be seen from this region: these incidental touches are always used). [4]
One gets strength out of the ground as often as one really touches it with a hoe. [4]
Woe to any one who touches her! [10]
Now the carpet on the stage was drawn tighter by lackeys in magnificent liveries, and the final touches were given to its decorations; now priests entered the smaller building at the left of the courtyard. [10]
Yet in spite of the tie a little crooked, and the trousers a little too large and too short, he had touches of that distinction which power gives. [11]
This has something of the flavor of the man we were to know later; the quaint, gentle resignation to disappointment which is one of the finest touches in his humor. [5]
It was born of a railway; the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railroad touches the river there. [5]
He touches it not, but reads it as it lies, and, having read, heaps sand upon it. [11]
It touches me nearly when you assure me that I am not forgotten by them. [6]
There are so many little touches that remind me of home. [4]
All these kindnesses, Kit acknowledged with various expressions of gratitude, and so many touches of the new hat, that the brim suffered considerably. [12]
I was serene in the midst of the scoldings that were heaped upon the Ottoman government for its affront offered to a pleasuring party of entirely respectable gentlemen and ladies I said, "We that have free souls, it touches us not. [5]
His excellence consists in sudden and brilliant touches, in vivid exhibitions of passion and emotion. [4]
There are touches in it that I never saw any writer take note of before. [5]
After greetings with his family he sought Barbara Golding, who was in the schoolroom, piously employed, Agnes said, in putting the final touches to Janet's trousseau. [11]
His description of his dead fiancee had flashes of poetry and excruciating touches of life: "She had no mother, and there was lots of things she didn't know because of that--ah, plenty! [11]
The General touches his chapeau to me, and the Commodore gives me a sailor's greeting. [6]
She was in her own apartments this pale, wintry afternoon, putting the finishing touches to her toilet. [4]
A rope that hangs from the centre of the top touches the wall before it reaches the bottom. [5]
But with this fidelity, we find also those bold generalizations and sharp picturesque touches which reveal the poetic philosopher. [6]
It had occupied far more than the year in which it was to have been finished, and His Majesty's impatience had become so great, that Coello was compelled to leave everything else, to paint only there, and put his improving touches to Ulrich's labor. [10]
But he was familiar with these convulsions which, it is true, weakened the invalid, but produced no other results; so he permitted Eva to help him put the last touches to his dress, on which he lavished great care. [10]
The light of fame, as the sunset gilds a weathercock on a steeple, sometimes touches such men for an instant and makes them immortal. [9]
The ears are everywhere pierced and similarly ornamented, and with the Botocudos and Lenguas of South America the hole is gradually so much enlarged that the lower edge touches the shoulder. [1]
Everything he touches, everything he does, brings a misfortune upon him. [5]
Before leaving home Eva adorned the beloved dead with the flowers, leaves, and vines which the gardener had brought and she herself had gathered, and at the church she put the last touches to this work so dear to her heart. [10]
Marion was already dressed and ready, save for the few final touches, which, though they have been given a dozen times, must still again be given just before the bride starts for the church. [11]
A table d'ho^te dinner is a tedious affair for a man who seldom touches anything after the three first courses; therefore I used to do some pretty dreary waiting because of my fears. [5]
As he stands debating, a hand touches his arm and a voice says in his ear: "You were within a mile of it with the Atgier Rose, two years ago. [11]
The novel may deal wholly with an aristocracy, or wholly with another class, but it must idealize the nature it touches into art. [4]
When, with brow damp with perspiration, I committed the first one to paper in a single evening, I found the next morning, to my surprise, that only a few touches were needed to convert it into a poem in iambics. [10]
And when the close of day Reddens upon the hills And washes the room with rose, In the twilight hush The Summoner comes to him Ever so gently, unseen, Touches him on the shoulder; And with the departing sun Our great funning friend is gone. [5]
Nothing touches man but he feels to be his. [6]
But as soon as he touches the lie it vanishes into thin air, for it has no more substance than a soap bubble! [10]
The delicate petals are twisted into a spiral, which at the appointed hour, when the sunlight touches the hidden springs of its life, will uncoil itself and let the day into the chamber of its virgin heart. [6]
The judge touches another button, and we are divorced. [4]
That's right, brothers, and woe betide any hand that touches her. [10]
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his powers touches the walls of his being occasionally, and learns about how far to attempt to spring. [4]
A thistle grows about here which has needles on it that would pierce through leather, I think; if one touches you, you can find relief in nothing but profanity. [5]
All at once a morning ray touches one of the two buds, and the point of a blushing petal betrays the imprisoned and swelling blossom. [6]

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