1 I approached my cheek to her lips: she would not touch it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXI 2 I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his high, calm mien.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 3 She approached her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 4 I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 5 A fresh wrong did these words inflict: the worse, because they touched on the truth.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXV 6 He put out his hand with a quick gesture, but not seeing where I stood, he did not touch me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVII 7 She talks of you continually: there is no subject she enjoys so much or touches upon so often.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXII 8 I recalled his singular conduct of yesterday, and really I began to fear his wits were touched.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIII 9 I should have been afraid to touch a horse when alone, but when told to do it, I was disposed to obey.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XII 10 Just then it seemed my chamber-door was touched; as if fingers had swept the panels in groping a way along the dark gallery outside.
11 On the neck lay a pale reflection like moonlight; the same faint lustre touched the train of thin clouds from which rose and bowed this vision of the Evening Star.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XIII 12 Earnestness is ever deeply solemn: first, as I listened to that prayer, I wondered at his; then, when it continued and rose, I was touched by it, and at last awed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXV 13 When it came to my turn, I drank, for I was thirsty, but did not touch the food, excitement and fatigue rendering me incapable of eating: I now saw, however, that it was a thin oaten cake shared into fragments.
14 I was about to propound a question, touching the manner in which that operation of changing my heart was to be performed, when Mrs. Reed interposed, telling me to sit down; she then proceeded to carry on the conversation herself.
15 One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XIII 16 I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; for I too liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.