touchings

From lingering eye-gazings and hand-touchings the way led to permitted caresses, until there was a second clasping in the arms and a second kiss long on the lips.

CHAPTER XXVII 2010

(Yes, there are breathy computer voices!) * I totally disagree with people that think the doll is * inviting* violence because she responds to unwanted touchings negatively (or with an ow) -- I thought that was actually a cool thing.

Female robot is the perfect companion, receptionist, sexual assault victim - Feministing 2008

* Strictly speaking, two shapes are homeomorphic if you can distort one to become the other without breaking it, and without any new touchings.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

* Strictly speaking, two shapes are homeomorphic if you can distort one to become the other without breaking it, and without any new touchings.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Revelations came in the form of small touchings, in the form of fingerprints of his life's passing.

Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

The current is not so rapid and the islets are easily avoided, so that there were no touchings or groundings.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

But the touchings, the odour of the aromatics, and the fasts that she had undergone, were enervating her.

Salammbo 2003

It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments of life, and has worn down society into a more smooth and polished, but certainly a less characteristic surface.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

The cherishing and training of some trees; the cautious pruning of others; the nice distribution of flowers and plants of tender and graceful foliage; the introduction of a green slope of velvet turf; the partial opening to a peep of blue distance, or silver gleam of water: all these are managed with a delicate tact, a pervading yet quiet assiduity, like the magic touchings with which a painter finishes up a favorite picture.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

He spent stolen time with Rue Meridian, hidden away from the rest of the company, lost in words and touchings meant only for each other.

Morgawr BROOKS, Terry 2002