TOUCHING in Classic Quotes

1  Once more the Director touched the switch.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter II

2  The words seemed to touch a spring in her mind.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

3  She stepped forward, she touched him on the shoulder.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

4  'To touch the fence is instant death,' pronounced the Warden solemnly.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

5  Then, bending over the precious box, he touched, he lifted into the light, he examined.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IX

6  He touched his hat--the aluminium stove-pipe hat in which he carried his wireless receiver and transmitter.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII

7  He always does his best to avoid me; goes out of the room when I come in; won't touch me; won't even look at me.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

8  They had put aside similar childish amusements too recently to be able to watch them now without a touch of contempt.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

9  But the man bent over the bed towards him and his face was huge, terrible; the black ropes of hair touched the blanket.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

10  The President leaned forward and, with a touch, released a delirium of cymbals and blown brass, a fever of tom-tomming.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

11  Singapore has often produced over sixteen thousand five hundred; and Mombasa has actually touched the seventeen thousand mark.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

12  Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter II

13  Henry kept his eye on the revolution-counter; when the needle touched the twelve hundred mark, he threw the helicopter screws out of gear.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV

14  The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well, the twilight of his own habitual stupor.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV

15  Bending over him, the old man touched his back with a long white feather, held it up for a moment, crimson, for the people to see, then shook it thrice over the snakes.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

16  Mitsima squeezed and patted, stroked and scraped; and there at last it stood, in shape the familiar water-pot of Malpais, but creamy white instead of black, and still soft to the touch.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

17  The roar of the air screws momentarily drowned the shouting; then, as the machine touched the ground and the engines were turned off: 'We--want--the whip; we--want--the whip,' broke out again in the same loud, insistent monotone.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII