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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
touch .
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Examples
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Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven by my heart-strings.
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Thereon the Brahmin cried out, "Wretch, who touchest things impure, and utterest things untrue, callest thou that cur a sheep?"
Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Edwin L. Miller
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Thou touchest the properties which, have their origin in wind.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The flowers start from thy temples, tear themselves loose from thy hair, and when thou touchest them, they crawl like lizards, and writhe and hiss like adders!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Thou touchest the waters with thy wings and beak repeatedly.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Flower-fed bee, why touchest thou my Heliodora's skin, leaving outright the flower-bells of spring?
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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But thou wilt endow him with new gifts if thou touchest his forehead with thy hand.
The Golden Silence 1901
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Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart - strings.
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