Adjective : a touching scene of farewell. From Dictionary.com.
Preposition : He wrote touching future plans. From Dictionary.com.
The scene between these two was most touchingly acted. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
"I trust you," she murmured in touchingly plaintive tones. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
It is a picture touchingly, terribly exact of our own state. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
How touchingly he spoke of those now gather'd to their rest. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
"Most touchingly written; children will be captivated by it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
Jordan's 20,000-word text is spare, but often touchingly candid. From Wordnik.com. [Jump Shots] Reference
His voice was touchingly respectful and sympathetic as he addressed. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
Arrah Weems, who had the care of the child, alluded to so touchingly by. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
She raised Larry to her lap, and looked up touchingly into their faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
"The poor Baroness is touchingly resigned," said Madame de Villegry, with. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Few Scottish poets have more touchingly depicted the evils of intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Miss Balfour, as that sister so touchingly expresses it, 'a desolate woman. '. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
See how gently and touchingly the day departs, and how holily the night comes!. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Can a death-severed heart's elocution be imitated more aptly, more touchingly?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Nay, he has just touchingly asked his foster-mother, observed by him to be in tears. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Marie is strong, willing, humble, and touchingly friendly in the position of the Western "girl.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
Publishers understood that his literary judgment was touchingly warped by his personal admirations. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896] Reference
Antikleia, the mother of Odysseus approaches and touchingly pleads the cause of Penelopeia with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
This is taken from that touchingly beautiful chapter in the 'Autobiographic Sketches,' entitled 'The. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A letter from Miss Charlotte Deming, a sister, assures us, somewhat touchingly, but happily, of this fact. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
There was something touchingly beautiful about that young face which impressed them with a sentiment of awe. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Fielding touchingly disavows any thought of occupying, officially, the great house raised by his imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
Then his innocent little daughter comes in with the simple, commonplace question which he answers so touchingly. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The feeling of a national, an universal affliction, was never more touchingly expressed than by this proceeding. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
And most touchingly did he sing the psalm, much to his own relief, as well as to the delight of his small audience. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
I have always thought this woman was one of those poor, unfortunate, and despairing ones, so touchingly described by. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
"Ways of Dying" tells the touchingly absurd tale of a "professional mourner" who is paid to moan and cry at funerals. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond The 'A' Word] Reference
They had all been long enough away from their own mothers to have come to feel the worth of a mother quite touchingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
In virtue of them, the woman has been considered, now unclean, now angelic, now touchingly (but irredeemably) helpless. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The tenderness of Miss Ross's nature was never more touchingly exhibited than in the case of Lieutenant B----, of Saratoga, New York. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
But there was, at once, something so helplessly stricken about the woman's plump despair, so infantile, so touchingly ridiculous, that. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Her intention was so unmistakable -- so touchingly ingenious, as are all youth's attempts to heal a bitterness that lies beyond its ken. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
And any novelist who can write touchingly about puppies rescued on a battlefield without making you throw up deserves some kind of medal. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie’s Company] Reference
Virgin's clemency towards sinners so touchingly, that his pursuers cast their swords away and sink on their knees, joining in the refrain. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Annabel Lee, of which she was the subject, and which is by far the most natural, simple, tender and touchingly beautiful of all his songs. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
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