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Touchstone's first release as I remember was Splash with Tom Hanks.
Apple Mentored by Disney (?) Steve Hulett 2008
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Touchstone's manager John Schneider, for example, has dumped Countrywide but has been holding on to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Touchstone's Matt Kaufler on where to invest during a U.S. downturn.
StreetTalk With Bob Lenzner Robert Lenzner 2006
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And sugar's sweetness opposes the bitter life slaves endure in Timothy Touchstone's Tea and Sugar, or the Nabob and the Creole:
Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms 2002
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Touchstone's amusement at the cliched verse that Orlando hangs on the trees of the forest in As You Like It in praise of his Rosalind ( 'I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and suppers and sleeping hours excepted', says Touchstone) is an amusing instance of Jaques 'lover' Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad/Made to his mistress 'eyebrow'.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Touchstone's voice came in from the other end of the hall.
Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962
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They question each other's veracity with a frankness truly democratic, and come fraternally to "Touchstone's seventh remove" at once, without passing any of the intermediate progressions.
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They question each other's veracity with a frankness truly democratic, and come fraternally to "Touchstone's seventh remove" at once, without passing any of the intermediate progressions.
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Meres 'critical effort -- or, to be rigorously exact, every sentence but one -- is built on "as" and "so"; but it reads like a parody -- a schoolmaster's parody -- of Touchstone's improvement on Orlando's verses in praise of Rosalind.
English literary criticism Various
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(Saviolo's "Practise") of Vincentio Saviolo, an Italian master of arms, gave hints for Touchstone's account of the lie.
William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922
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