Word: touched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...readily perceive how the Latin and Greek sections profit materially by receiving a third of their instruction from a professor, yet we are by no means sure that the plan would work as well with beginners in German. One other point of the writer's we should touch upon, namely, increasing the number of men in a section. This must be disastrous, and the advisability of such an increase is to be questioned...
...wisht-for hand! I miss thy touch...
...intend to teach all men how to recognize and identify all other men; and, as the most rudimentary form of identification is that which is made possible by externals, - peculiarities of dress, manner, and speech, - we will proceed to lay down a few rules, and touch upon a few points which will be found invaluable for the beginner in this branch of the subject. In the first place (this is a fundamental, as Cromwell would have said), never take a man at his own estimate of himself, nor at the world's. His own estimate is always either too high...
...touch the gray stone at her head...
...thrill my blood with a tone or touch...