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Sentences starting with touching

Touching the glass with his cheek, he listened again. [12]
Touching the head of an enemy was strictly prohibited; yet many a slight wound was given while fighting in the gloom of the woods. [10]
Touching his breast, he said gravely: "By this sign here, I am not guilty of the crime for which they come to seek me, Rosalie. [11]

Sentences ending with touching

They adopted her, with grave and formal military ceremonies of their own invention--solemnities is the truer word; solemnities that were so profoundly solemn and earnest, that the spectacle would have been comical if it hadn't been so touching. [5]
It was very touching. [11]
She was pale; her face had gained a spirituality, a refinement, new and touching. [11]
What you've done for me, and what you'd do for me--" There was a strange pathos in his voice, an uncommon thing, because his usual eloquence was, as a rule, more pleasing than touching. [11]
He held it for a moment as delicately as if it were a fragile bit of glass, something that his huge fingers might crush by touching. [11]
Presently the noise below-stairs diminished, and the priest's voice rose in the office, vibrating and touching. [11]
As for the allegorical meaning, it went through her consciousness like a peck of wheat through a bushel measure with the bottom out, without touching. [6]

More example sentences with the word touching in them

Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair... and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this. [2]
How many amusing, yet edifying and touching anecdotes, the Abbess Kunigunde had narrated of him and the most beloved of his followers! [10]
Then you will write a touching letter, in which you will forgive all those recent Browns. [5]
They could exchange words and looks, they could arrange private interviews, they would be stooping together over the same book, her hair touching his cheek, her breath mingling with his, all the magnetic attractions drawing them together with strange, invisible effluences. [6]
Yet he pledged Wolf, and, touching his glass to his, said: "I've often thought that this might happen if you should see how she has grown up. [10]
Paris was crowded with people, from all about France, who came to get sight of the venerable dame, and it was a touching spectacle when she moved through these reverent wet-eyed multitudes on her way to the grand honors awaiting her at the cathedral. [5]
The learned Master Windecke made haste to depart, as he could ill-endure such touching matters, while Uncle Conrad enquired of Ann what she had heard of Herdegen's end. [10]
But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching this heart, so kind and generous? [2]
Poor soldier he who did not raise his sword, And, touching with his lips the hilt-cross, swear In war or peace the livery to wear Of one that blessed him with her queenly word. [11]
I'll take them where they must go, scold them a bit, and pet them a bit," said Marya Dmitrievna, touching her goddaughter and favorite, Natasha, on the cheek with her large hand. [2]
But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you have a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. [5]
She had been weeping, and her whole manner suggested very touching confidences. [11]
Deeply agitated, we watched during the memorable examination the touching spectacle of the greatest heart making itself the standard by which to measure what is petty and ignoble. [10]
How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. [5]
Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly on the arm said: "The divine mercy is inexhaustible! [2]
As he was walking by the riverside at Shilah, a woman spoke to him, touching his arm as she did so. [11]
The landlady was very much astonished to learn that they had come all the way from London, and appeared to have no little curiosity touching their farther destination. [12]
Her slumber was very light, and she often opened her large, blue eyes and gazed with touching anxiety at the sick woman. [10]
Majestic as all-conquering Venus she had resisted him for the second tune, and now how touching did she appear in her tears and weakness! [10]
He had been used to the Catholic religion in Ireland; he had seen it in France, Spain, Italy and elsewhere; but here was something essentially primitive, archaically touching and convincing. [11]
As she lingered unobserved, her eye rested on the touching picture of the two young things clasped in each other's arms, and she overheard the last words of the gentle little creature who had done her such cruel wrong. [10]
The lines are unaffected and very touching, full of that deep affection which united the brothers in the closest intimacy, and of the tenderest love for the mother whom he was leaving to see no more. [6]
He was just touching up the final proposition, when his granddaughter, Letty, once before referred to, came into the room with her smiling face and lively movement. [6]
Well, it was touching to see the queen blush and smile, and look embarrassed and happy, and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty. [5]
I have revelations touching the King my master, and those I will not tell you. [5]
She had that touching stillness about her which belongs to animals that wait to be spoken to and then look up with a kind of sad humility. [6]
And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading--room cabbaging sermons for Sunday. [5]
And now as touching our grand-uncle and guardian the Knight Sir Sebald Im Hoff. [10]
It is a touching note of the hold the memory of her young hero had upon her admiration that her last words, murmured as life was ebbing, were, "Write to Nathan. [4]
It was a touching entreaty, but so often interrupted by threats and curses that only a few could hear it. [10]
I have listened to the touching experiences of the Bearded Lady, whose rough cheeks belie her susceptible heart. [6]
I am going to the rooms of Bent-Anat; Katuti, who can go in and out as she pleases, will set fire to the stairs, which lead to the upper story, and which fall by touching a spring; and Paaker to the king's apartments. [10]
Perhaps there come to the disordered mind flashes of insight, illuminations and divinations, greater than are given to the sane, for she suddenly said in a whisper, touching me with a nervous finger, "I will go and tell her where to hide. [11]
It was touching to read in the same confessions: "I was in a dreamy mood, and they said I must be longing for something--Paul, no doubt. [10]
Well, I says to myself at last, I'm a-going to chance it; I'll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you'll go to. [5]
Her misery seemed to him a touching proof of the transitory nature of all earthly things. [10]
He is about to enter the horse-car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching picture of misery, puts out her lean hand and begs for rescue from hunger and death. [5]
It brought him to a melancholy standstill, disturbed at last by Gongi touching him on the arm and pointing towards the post-office. [11]
Yet all the time she longed for Eglington to come and say one word, which would be like touching the lever of the sluice-gates of her heart, to let loose the flood. [11]
For the first time he saw her weep, and her winning manner seemed to him equally touching, whether she yielded to anxious distress of mind or to joyous hopes. [10]
What a touching thought it was that they had all podded for me! [4]
But Anatole's expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne's little foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. [2]
On its walls thou canst behold pleasing paintings of the gods to whom thou hast devoted thy life, the most sacred chapters from the book of the dead, and many other beautiful pictures touching thine own life and character. [10]
Philetaerus had sent this touching work to King Ptolemy to thank him for the severity with which he had chastised the daring of the barbarians, who had not spared his kingdom also. [10]
We all honor this touching maternal instinct wherever we find it, be it in the home of luxury or in the humble cow-shed. [5]
It was about this time that a touching friendship began which ought, in justice, to be briefly chronicled. [9]
For a moment they stood so, for a moment of revealing and understanding, but speechless; and then, suddenly, and with a smile infinitely touching, she said, as he had heard her say in the monastery--the very words: "Speak--speak to me! [11]
Some, however, made the sweeping Oriental gesture of the right hand, palm upward, and almost touching the ground--a sign of obedience and infinite respect. [11]
Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue coats. [2]
How touching did the silent accent of pain that lay on her lips seem to him, and how happy was the spoilt darling of the Emperor, who was loved by all who saw him, to be able to be tender and helpful, unasked! [10]
Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of international questions touching the rights of foreigners in this country and of United States citizens abroad. [7]
With what fair-mindedness the former in the Convivium had made her cause her own, how touching had been Martina's effort to approach her, and how ill that very day she had requited their loyal affection! [10]
The light of the fire showed across the gorge, touching off the far wall of pines with burnished crimson, and huge flickering shadows looked like elusive spirits, attendant on the lonely obsequies. [11]
Nell could see that she raised her dark eyes to the face of her superior, and that their expression, and that of her whole attitude for the instant, was one of mute but most touching appeal against this ungenerous usage. [12]
His friend discovered that it was time for him to fulfil some other engagement, and Richard Swiveller was accordingly left alone, in company with the rosy wine and his own meditations touching Miss Sophy Wackles. [12]
The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. [2]
You fit the tale," said de Mauprat dubiously, touching the letter with his finger. [11]
This was long sweet grass touching his face, making a couch like down for the battered, wearied body. [11]
She was to swear to tell the truth "as touching the matters et down in the proces verbal. [5]
For hours the surgeon sat beside the couch, now and again feeling the pulse, wetting the hot lips, touching the forehead with his palm. [11]
Still, to make sure, one of the judges asked Joan if she had ever cured sick people by touching them with the ring. [5]
They have one such, and it is inexpressibly touching and beautiful. [5]
I have grown so in height that I knew an old uniform of my brothers would fit me, and I had it ready--small sword and all," she added, with a sad sort of humour, touching the weapon at her side. [11]
His affectionate disposition shows itself very sweetly in these touching mementos of a love of which his first great sorrow was so soon to be born. [6]
Where the figures should be, there are three words written; and the same words have been written every year for all these years; yes, it is a blank page, with always those grateful words lettered across the face of it--a touching memorial. [5]
As surely as she felt her own innocence she must succeed in proving it, and with this consciousness she cried out to the Queen in a tone of touching entreaty: "O your Majesty, do not leave me without hearing me! [10]
In strange, touching sentences he spoke to them, as though they were present before him. [11]
Never had she seemed more desirable than in her touching weakness. [10]
Thus they all sat in silence till Orpheus, touching his father, pointed out the temple of Isis where he had met the fair Gorgo on the previous day. [10]
She had discovered salutary sap in many a human plant that had at first seemed absolutely poisonous; where she had shrunk from touching such impurity, violets and lilies had bloomed amidst the mire. [10]
She watched him sadly for a moment, and then, leaning over and touching him gently on the shoulder, said: "It's worse for you than it is for me, father. [11]
Before he looked round Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre's beaming face he gave him an unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. [2]
These former enemies rose up against me with the most touching unanimity, and so overwhelmed me with revilings and threats that I left the room. [10]
His father-in-law, Herr Rodiger, accompanied him and watched him with the most touching solicitude. [10]
It is well remarked, on the twenty-third page of this article, that "the comparison of bills of mortality among an equal number of sick, treated by divers methods, is a most poor and lame way to get at conclusions touching principles of the healing art. [3]
We have thus rapidly run over a prolific field, touching only upon some of the relations of the newspaper to our civilization, and omitting many of the more important and grave. [4]
He smiles and puts all his gratitude into one simple and touching sentence, 'Ich danke dir,' and dies. [5]
Although she had possessed more than was needed to gratify her own wants, she could never be moved by the most touching appeals of the poorest to relieve their distress. [10]
An electrical current passing through a coil of wire makes a magnet of a bar of iron lying within it, but not touching it. [6]
If touching a paraschites, it is said, does not defile a princess, whom then can it defile? [10]
The Sandwich Island paper says: How touching is this tribute of the late Hon. [5]
Laura was very pale, but this pallor heightened the lustre of her large eyes and gave a touching sadness to her expressive face. [5]
She had her own thoughts touching my brother's faithlessness. [10]
When far on our road, we had a parting view of the Parthenon, with the moonlight streaming through its open colonnades and touching its capitals with silver. [5]
And now occurred one of those beautiful incidents which no fiction-writer would dare to imagine, a scene of touching pathos, creditable to our fallen humanity. [5]
It was at once touching, and pitiful, to see how closely he lived with the Manes of his dead. [10]
He lingered longest on Buddhism; and it surprises me now to discover how well, with the aids then at his command, he understood the touching charity of Buddha and the deep wisdom and grandeur of his doctrine. [10]
He assured her of this; and Helena, who had heard him mentioned as a man of ability, saw in him a helper in need, and begged him, with touching fervour, to show her grandfather, when he came before the officers, that all was not lost. [10]
She seemed part of the woods, its wild simplicity, its depth, its colour-already Autumn was crimsoning the leaves, touching them with amber tints, making the woodland warm and kind. [11]
About the centre of the room, laying palm to palm again and yet again, touching lips and forehead and breast, speaking with slow, leisurely, voices, were two Arab sheikhs from the far Soudan. [11]
One hears constantly of the most touching instances of this zeal. [5]
The noble figure of the crucified Saviour, carved by an artist's hand in ivory, hung from an ebony cross, and he thrust the image back, intending to turn proudly way, he gazed at the face and found there only pain, quiet endurance, and touching sorrow. [10]
If you are obliged to deal with him, you try to get through the job without so much as touching him. [7]
That old man noticed a face thrust out of the carriage window gazing at them, and respectfully touching Pierre's elbow said something to him and pointed to the carriage. [2]
He had done nothing carelessly; he was touching off our conflict with flashes of genius. [11]
There he sat --not a myth, not a shadow, but real, alive, compact of substance, and almost within touching distance with the hand. [5]
This, however, by no means escaped his keen glance, which detects everything, and so he urged me with touching, ardent entreaties to go with him to his studio, though but for one poor, brief hour. [10]
He stooped once more and closely looked at the body, but without touching it. [11]
Philometor was with me quite early, and fulfilled that duty with touching affection. [10]

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