Barry had worked for three hours on those flames, mixing orange and red and yellow with a bit of blue until they looked like they would burn your fingers if you touched them. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The beloved instrument, seldom touched now had not been moved, and above it Beth’s face, serene and smiling, as in the early days, looked down upon them, seeming to say, “Be happy. I am here.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though he expected her to scream when he touched her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was very exciting to Janie who had never touched dice in her life. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Sadly, my boy, I mean exactly what I said! I haven’t left the apartment in twenty-four years! My feet haven’t touched the ground!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He put out a hand and touched it gently with the tip of one finger. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Conner reached out and touched my arm, then dropped his hand. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She touched one, curious, wondering if it was real. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He touched the mare’s neck, and the horse took a few more steps closer. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He took a step back and touched a palm-sized digital video camera balanced carefully on top of the stereo. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s where her father washed her leg with carbolic acid where that man touched her.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben knew that the exile was almost over, that his term of loneliness would be shortened the first time he touched the ball in practice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss touched the wall again, just at the point where Javier’s blue flannel opened, and he remembered how soft Javier’s skin had been, how he smelled, how his lips felt across his own. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Coach Stork always touched our hair before letting us leave, making sure it was wet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He knew that if he reached out and touched her face, it would feel like butter, the kind Master unwrapped from a paper packet and spread on his bread. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He touched my arm, and I looked up again. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Minions collected and stored every object he touched, food waste included, to ensure that no lesser persons could profane these objects with their touch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The truth was, I hadn’t actually touched it since we’d arrived. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole is a paradigm, a human institution possessed of a life of its own, self-regenerating, touched all around by human meddle but constantly improved, embellished by it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched a finger to her chin and her mouth, then rested his hand on her cheek. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Reckless with desperation, I touched my bloody side, concentrated, and felt a terrible cold tear through me as I pulled more heat from my blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mother, if I’m ever half as good as you, I shall be satisfied,” cried Jo, much touched. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched the white and black keys on the piano, music wafted out of the instrument, and Mia’s face lit with joy. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just before he would have touched me, he vanished. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cain had touched a nerve in her today—when he had mentioned her parents, she’d lost control entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I whispered, she touched my ears, which meant their voices would keep us safe. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sound, no evidence that his feet touched the earth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His hands tingled, not unpleasantly, where his skin touched hers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When their talk touched on matters of state, it was in low tones, for the king never failed in his discretion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I lit the newspaper in several places, then touched the match to the cotton balls. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath, then walked the last fifty yards to the giant precipice and touched it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He gave me a long look, then came over to me, reached out hesitantly, and touched me with a sooty hand. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When his skin touched mine, I prepared to fight that primal need to push him away, but it never came. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He twitched when I touched his arm to stop him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The saplings shuddered with every tug he made, and they all grew taller and thicker, doming inward, until they touched at the top. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You know, Luke, when I touched your arm that day, something very...very strange happened. And it happened again, during your last visit to my office. After Stan died.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You predicted it and my spotter confirmed it this time. Said he ‘touched’ her and she was stone cold. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the window and touched Singer on the shoulder. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then they touched us, and bodies fell, and there was nothing else. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched his side of the bed, ran her hand over it, savored the last of the rumpled warmth that lingered on the sheet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I touched the Long Wall with my own fingers, running the edge of my hand between the stones, tracing the grooves the builders’ hands had made. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her black attire, she was a stark contrast to the whiteclad ones who’d just been there, but a smile touched her withered face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dad’s hand touched a knob that had “Start” written on it, but before he turned it he pulled his hand back and said, “First, however . . We all screamed. “ The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched me on the shoulder as she told me this news. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted her legs straight out to the sides and touched her toes in a move Gregor thought he’d maybe seen cheerleaders do. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the thick, solid wood falling to pieces when I touched it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He came to me and touched my hair, which has gotten rather shaggy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you're not off by the time I count to thirty, I'll tell him you"—her tongue licked the word—"touched me up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Theodora touched the statue timidly, putting her finger against the outstretched hand of one of the figures. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

No one has touched me for the past ten days except to hurt me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For a second, when I first touched them, small and cold, I thought she might pull back. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly she went over, all the way until the tips of her fingers touched the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the spot on my cheek, trying to calm myself down. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

That finger had touched my mother in tender ways I did not fully comprehend. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But when the light touched the sword there were no beginnings to be seen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His hand felt her small breasts through the silk of her dress, touched the hard nubs of her nipples. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, just before the dawn, it hovered on the horizon and touched the land. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mist curled around the giant, hissing and bubbling as it touched his skin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He lightly touched his hand to my shoulder, and the physical contact seemed to make his calming influence stronger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For a little while, it seemed like everything I touched turned to gold. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelia went close and kissed the cub on the head and touched his hurt face tenderly. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet he scarcely touched his food, and he thrashed and groaned in the night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dark blue pony beads hung down a swatch of fringe, and Fishtail touched them carefully and lovingly as he stepped quietly along. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I touched one carefully, wishing I had on Gilgamesh's gardening gloves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They went on like that for a while until Wash stopped and touched a hand to her forehead. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He only touched my back to make sure I didn’t get bumped by a few dancing couples. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She touched his face, left her hand resting on his cheek. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I touched the last string and tuned it too, ever so slightly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She kissed her fingertips and touched them to the saint’s picture, and she hurried home to write Milton the good news. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Billy closed it, took a hand from his muff, touched a stove. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I kept my hand on my Swiss Army knife in case he touched me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s so interested in the conversation that she hasn’t touched the limp grilled cheese sandwich on her tray yet. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to do that,” said Winnie, surprised and touched. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma laughed and touched the flower, colored a deep shade of purple that was almost blue. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He peered at the table so closely that his nose nearly touched the surface, but whatever he was looking for, he didn’t find it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a little bump her head touched the ceiling and then she went bouncing along it till she reached Mr. Wigg. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her fingers touched something cold, smooth, and metal. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

What had touched him was only a cat. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Aunt Sponge advanced cautiously and touched it with the tip of one finger. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

As she touched the dirty rags, her stomach rose in her throat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She touched a match to the shredded paper and watched as it caught fire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Gold bangles and a beautifully crafted flat gold chain that she touched from time to time, reassuring herself that it was there and that it was hers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby could not see him in the dark, but when she touched him she found they had even tied a piece like a bonnet around his head and ears. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks and shoulders hurt like someone touched them with a hot iron. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When our bare knees touched, the way they had to in order to even fit back there, I couldn’t help but remember Irene and the Ferris wheel, just like an allergic reaction. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Shasta's seat was excellent but he was sadly puzzled what to do with his reins, for he had never touched the reins while he was on Bree's back. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She touched the high plasticized curls of her platinum hair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had touched a place previously unimaginable to me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We both look at the spot where I touched him, like we expect his arm to explode. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

My fingers touched Ice’s fingers in midair as the ball floated over him. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the feel of springy muscle beneath her skin everywhere he touched her the only time she’d let him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We talked about the most private things, but we haven’t yet touched upon the things closest to my heart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Without giving a thought to the inevitable result Midas wished that whatever he touched would turn into gold. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is good whether you have been touched by the Green Tiger or not.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His icy fingers touched inside of her and at once she spoke, not a word, but a sound that gave forth a meaning of horror accepted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the newspaper and said he had “touched” the UFO and that it was “covered in a strange Martian language that looked like chicken feet.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She’s touched, because Sierra has changed her profile picture to an image of her and Annabelle at Green Lake, sitting on their beach towels. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He never touched a drop of alcohol, even on New Year’s. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I carefully touched the star and felt the five gold points. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached across and touched the scratches on Tally’s face softly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He told how the bear had licked up his spit and how he had finally touched the Spirit Bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The tuning fork intensified—its vibrations growing every time Adam touched me somewhere new. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched a copy as though to take it down, then left it and drifted back to his typewriter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cole’s fingers sank into the bushy white hair until he touched solid body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She would say that some are touched by God’s incandescent light and that it shows on their faces. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His greenfinch dæmon touched noses courteously with Jesper and then perched on the back of his chair as he sat down by the fire with his wine. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying it distressingly—” He leaned forward and touched the buff gold bedspread. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo passed her so closely she could have touched him, but he didn't notice her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her lip went up in the middle and touched her nose. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Boots reached over his shoulder and touched the creases on his wrists. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I touched my own shirt, it felt perfectly dry. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She stood over one, raised her left arm, and touched her right hand to the picture. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Um”—under her seat she moved her left foot forward so the heel touched on the arch of the right—“can I take ballet lessons?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He froze up as soon as I touched him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She remembered Mama's face, touched by golden morning sunlight, and she remembered Mama’s body in a pool of blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She touched there, in the space, the skin soft-looking, faintly hued. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam touched a scratch on his forehead and then hurriedly took his hand away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He touched the chicken again and licked his finger before he yanked the other leg off, eating it until he had only the cracked, sucked pieces of bones left in his hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jet Stone Girl touched the earth and stepped onto the rainbow trail that appeared. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Footsteps crunched on bits of gravel and glass, and another gun touched the back of my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others whom he had not touched began to wander away. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Biff touched Baby’s soft gold hair and laid his hand gently on the side of her little head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as they touched him, she fell into his mind, out of the dust and smoke of the fire-painted night and into...a place she’d never been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He looks away, places the bread in my hand, and draws back as if he has touched fire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His front tire tilted high; he imagined wings sprouting from the handlebars and jet fire shooting from his seat as his back tire touched down on the opposite side of the creek. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

However, none of them could get to sleep, not even Bo, who usually dropped off as soon as his head touched the pillow. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed his forehead as she’d done before, and where her lips touched, a red light burst out of his skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The block castle towered over the foot of my bed, stretching so tall, it nearly touched the ceiling and so wide, we could only partly open my half of the closet door. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Its new owners circled it and touched it now and then, the way you touch a dangerous horse to soothe him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the point where they touched the thatched ceiling, they became a line of ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been twenty-one years since I had even touched my wife’s hand. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my feet touched the icy bank, I couldn’t feel that either. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they don’t fit So then they moved up a little bit—nobody saying a word yet—and touched our hair. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched one post of my four-poster bed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My dad brought his face close to mine, close enough so that the tips of our noses almost touched. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He reached forward and touched its sleeve, rubbing the fabric between his fingers for a moment. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He touched her elbow gently, leaned forward, and placed his beautiful mouth on hers. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched one hand toward the pilot, saw that his fingers were trembling, and touched the pilot on the chest. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gingerly her fingers touched the screen, as if trying to feel whether it was real. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I touched the small bump where the rock hit me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He touched her arms, her shoulders; their hardness vanished. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again a whitish object gleamed before me: it was a gate—a wicket; it moved on its hinges as I touched it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She has not touched her at all. We are using a wet nurse.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He touched his red ear and said: “You my only friend I ever had.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman touched up the dark roots on the head of a lady school board member and asked if Principal Principal needed help. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever stretched your legs or touched your toes and tried for too much? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I think I flinched when he touched me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dimple touched the two other books on the table. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They opened the front door the moment her dainty little foot touched the first step. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

No person had ever touched my scar before. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Anybody wearing the fraternity pin,” he added, and touched a blue dot tattooed under his left eye— an insigne, a visible password, by which certain former prison inmates could identify him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped into it and it closed around her, sealing shut just as tiny smears of yellow touched the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

El’s not the type of person who can read something that’s made her cry and think it was good because it touched her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even before Mrs. Richardson touched it, though, she knew this was not the case. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Arianne touched the pin that clasped his cloak, with its quarreling swans. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was worth it, Salva thought as he touched his eye gingerly His belly was a rounded lump stuffed full of honey and beeswax. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her golden bat, which stood behind her, dipped its head down and touched her neck. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll give you a brief description of the various subjects we touched on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Even if I had noticed them, I wouldn’t have touched them,” Florida said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother jumped back to keep from being touched by it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lastly, I touched around my neck to make certain my leather purse was there. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the deep scar on her forehead, remembering. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early when Amakas movements woke me up the next morning; the room was not yet touched by the lavender rays of dawn. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Judianne made out like she didn’t know what I was talking about, swearing up and down she hadn’t touched a single hair on my head. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bowed so low that his whiskers touched the floor. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m also sure that Mother never touched a man before she met Father. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As Rab explained to Johnny their good points, he put out a hand and touched the lock on one. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But...his mind had touched her mind, and that seemed to him a deeper reality and even greater intimacy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She’d not touched an aircraft’s flight controls since before the war started. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Jessie touched the remaining wires to two small prongs coming down from an LED light, and the light blinked on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The last time he touched them there was pain, and wings tore from their backs that they might go where they wished. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I had never, ever touched someone and felt like this: like I was holding electricity inside of me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was Europa he drew toward, and as she gently touched him, he lowed so musically, no flute could give forth a more melodious sound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy smiled at me, and when we turned to leave he came over and touched my arm as a way of saying good-bye. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blade touched Khione’s chest, and the goddess exploded in a miniature blizzard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Celestial bronze touched the plug, the plug shrank and loosened. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The moment his skin touched the stone, he heard, “Nathan, are you there?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

These calls to Gardar were important to Bobby because they went beyond the complicated aspects of his imprisonment and touched on other matters, such as politics, religion, and philosophy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Eugenia was there at his side, and she reached over to his face, put her hand on the side of it, touched him gingerly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

While Mother carved and served the plates—Dad sometimes carved wood for a hobby, but he never touched a carving knife at the table—Dad would shout out problems in mental arithmetic for us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the house slaves, Master James was more upset that his brother had touched his property, and before so many witnesses, than with Chester and Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the airport, touched down, and coasted to a halt, it would be far too late. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sirens screamed and the cars rolled slowly through the crowded streets and he was feeling the cross that touched his chest, like a knife pointed at his heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several of them touched my shoulder as I passed. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When she raised it, his white night-robe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in her neck had sent forth drops. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He clutched at the glimmering fabric, but his fingers steamed and blistered when he touched it. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I touched a lot of things in her kitchen, because it made me feel OK for some reason. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so last night, it touched me, Oh so deeply, to hear him say it was the same for him, too. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached up and touched the glass over it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The thought of the white cottage in flames, his memory of Dallben’s beard, and the heroic Coll’s bald head touched him all at once. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As she passed her on the way to the armchair, Mrs. Coulter touched Lyra’s hair briefly, and Lyra felt a current of warmth flow into her, and blushed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled and showed all her bad teeth, and we touched glasses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Kneeling down by her side, I reached out and touched her. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scurried around, like hens in a yard, craning our necks for anything that touched the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was touching her all the places she was afraid to be touched. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then Bull, in an expansive mood, shouted, “Chow down, troops,” lifting a piece of roast from the platter and biting into it before the meat even touched his plate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came over to me and touched my arm. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The satyr touched his wrist and shook his head with a scowl. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She touched one, the largest of the three, running her hand lightly over the shell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I touched her arm, full of sympathy for her and for Georgie as well. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My hair barely touched my shoulders, though part of that was how it curled away at the ends. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if we went and touched her with the iron?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge put both hands up and touched the rounded tips of her cat ears. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She touched the scar on her palm, still there, even though Peris’s had been rubbed away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I really think I could feel her lungs when I touched her back! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But so much adrenaline was pumping through me that I needed a step to balance myself as my feet touched the mat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Where was the Argo IP Thoon knelt and touched the blade of his cleaver reverently against the earth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Byron had tucked the blanket between him and Dad down into the cushion of the couch to make sure he couldn’t be touched. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

D’Ath rose from sleep to follow after, but Robin touched his head and whispered a command for him to stop. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He broke prevailing rules of casual intimacy: He stood too close, stared too hard, touched too much and long. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The nearest creature touched its own breast with its trunk and spoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘Tomorrow we’ll take you back to your people. We’ll assure them that you have not been touched by the men. You can go back to your former life.’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now the shell was no longer a thing seen but not to be touched, Ralph too became excited. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But before she could say anything else, Esteban started talking and I touched her hand to shush her. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She touched her glass rim with the tip of her tongue before she sipped. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He touched my hand with his tongue, but only once and then he was quiet and scarcely breathed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gently touched his right eye with the blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the bread to the orange rind. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"My uncles . . ." Theon's claim took precedence over those of his father's three brothers, but the woman had touched on a sore point nonetheless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Marti's plane had touched down at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport the previous evening. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I touched his raspy cheek with the back of my hand. He shut his eyes, giving himself to my touch. “You mustn’t worry so. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father never touched his supper,” fretted Rachel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There were racks of rockets standing to be touched off to call for help from the artillery or to signal with if the telephone wires were cut. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Leaves fell around them in flurries, stinging and smarting when they touched Tristran's skin, cutting and slicing at his clothes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Horse touched the wall with a rough hand and examined the grime on his fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bugle music touched the room again, a different call. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was very much touched by what she said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched his thigh, the flesh was hot to his fin-gers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With a single finger, you touched the lip of my bag and tilted it down just enough to peek inside. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She touched my arm, her eyes full of sympathy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was about to walk over to the crown when the star touched his arm and said, "Wait. Do you hear drums?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had only just touched it when all of the hair on his head seemed to stand on end, and a burst of light flashed under his fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t touched me, but I could feel the heat of its metal skin. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the edge of the blade to mark where the blow must fall, and Ygritte shivered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Looking back the way they’d come, he used his free hand and touched his forehead to the Fates and prayed they would be all right. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the most beautiful piece of jewelry I had ever touched. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the stems began to sprout heads, bloody red heads that bobbed over and touched her back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I touched him, he popped me in the arm, hard! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that very same night, Turner had almost touched a whale. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Darius, who chases girls with firecrackers or a stick that touched a rat and thinks he’s tough, today pointed up because the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched her cheek, real tender, and said, “I’m tired, Mary Willis. I thought maybe you and me could go to bed early tonight.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The rain ran down his hair into his shirt; it had grown below his ears and touched his neck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even notice me looking at him, so I touched his arm and said, “Grampa, you okay? You didn’t forget your medicine this morning did you?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bigger watched her fingers tremble through the air till they touched Mr. Dalton’s shoulder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He passed close enough that I could of reached out and touched him, but I don’t think he even saw me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had trouble reaching the cotton bolls at the very top of the tall plants, so I leaned against the plants and pushed them over with my body until they touched the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As she approached she saw Jello there and she felt uneasy, for the wolves had not touched the caribou since the night they had felled it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I miss being touched—Nan stroking my hair, Darin arm-wrestling me and pretending to lose, Pop squeezing my shoulder good night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had a knife, an Italian stiletto that I had bought on 42nd Street, and I touched the pocket it was in with my elbow to make sure it was there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I scooted closer to her until the sides of our bodies touched. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The blue veins on his neck stood out, and his pointing finger almost touched her nose. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya touched his threads of fear, rolling them between her fingertips. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He touched her cheek and held his hand there tenderly for a moment. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Presently, he shut his eyes and touched the lids with trembling fingertips. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since our foreheads had touched, looking at Colin made me feel strange. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t touched them since we moved in. So that must be—” “Twenty years.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At almost the exact moment our hands touched, I saw it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Upon pressing Maurice, I learned that the jigs for the molecular models had not been touched after arriving at his lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing touched me but the breeze as the horn flipped past. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows went black, and the dark tall place on the wall came and I went and touched it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers touched her hair and he hugged her once more. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fresh wrong did these words inflict: the worse, because they touched on the truth. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He touched the husk of his younger face and thought about his beloved Blanchepon. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She put out her hand and touched his forehead with one finger. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The roots began to move, digging deeper as they touched the earth, anchoring the oak until it looked like it had stood in that spot for centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Jam lay them out on her parents’ bed, then started back downstairs, but as soon as she touched the banister, she paused. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t touched a drop since that night...” he broke off suddenly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, thank you,” said Mr. Lemoncello when his feet finally touched down. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Together, they touched the second key symbol on the side of their hands. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Biff stood up and touched the arm of his chair to still its rocking. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man held Gabes neck with one gloved hand, raised his weapon with the other, and touched the tender skin there with the blade. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She put her hand to a tree and touched the lichen growing dark green upon brown, and it felt like old cork, dry and crumbling. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie touched her arm and she turned, and for the first time since the library, their eyes met. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The angel touched the man’s shoulder, and they were both projected far into the future. They were in an immense setting, surrounded by thousands of people speaking a strange language. “The man wept with happiness. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hid the flare of the flame with herself and touched the match to something it her other hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the tender purple lump above his ear. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize your dad probably touched my heart? Like—directly?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My grandma didn’t say anything, just cried even harder and touched Rondell on the arm. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I touched his hand: it was dry and hot with fever. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The girl jumped down from the ledge and came over to me and touched it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted from one foot to the other and touched her shoulder timidly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never even accidentally bumped or brushed or touched him before. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Your appetite’s been touched like by your accident,” said the landlord, glancing at the bandaged arm under my coat. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I never, ever touched a wild mushroom. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The evening meal was distributed, an especially thick soup, but nobody touched it. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something about it that touched him, or as his wife Mary put it, “They say when you get the sand in your craw, you never want to leave.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear the footsteps of the caretaker as he approached me from behind; I jumped when he touched me on the shoulder. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was up three flights of stone steps to Lord Ramsay’s bedchamber, one of the rooms the fires had touched but lightly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her white hair—braided, perhaps; perhaps not—she touched as though replacing a wayward strand from an elegant coiffure. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every fork and spoon and glass in the place had touched his lips. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the ball touched Jeffrey, a piece of him would instantly turn black. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Temp, whose antennas had drooped down over his head, reached out and touched Gregor with a feeler. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For what seemed like the two hundredth time, she went over their plan, she touched her pockets to be sure she had her foxglove darts, she recited their combat spells under her breath. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But if the agent touched living cells, Nancy’s cells, it would come alive and begin to amplify itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched her throat gently and stretched her neck, examining the damage in the small mirror on the dresser. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Before putting his late friend on his shelf again, Wemmick touched the largest of his mourning rings and said, “Sent out to buy it for me, only the day before.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting her hand, she touched her brow once and held up two crossed fingers in the darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After plannings and more plannings by El Alacrán and the rest, dodging bands of police and border patrols, I Manuel Flores, shivering with fear and cold, have touched the earth of the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he would yank her head down, and as soon as her hooves touched the dirt, kick her a second time, harder, knowing she would rear again. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Silver hair touched the collar of his beige turtleneck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We got back to the room and touched the door. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand, very cautiously he touched Frodo’s knee — but almost the touch was a caress. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I touched my Devil’s Shoestrings bracelet and looked at each one of the girls as I said her name aloud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I scattered them with a stick and timidly touched them with my fingers: they were cold. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When we were knocking on the doors of the apartment building where it happened—I mean, this touched me—a young man that answered the door said he was thirty-seven years old. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something touched my leg, and I leaped up in fright, hitting my head on the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the first days of September, some unknown person who probably lived somewhere to the south of the Ebola River perhaps touched something bloody. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was led to one room and I to another, but just before she parted, she touched my arm. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched her cheek lightly, finally feeling the smallest amount of proficiency. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He and Hazel touched their noses together, sniffing and questioning silently. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second cold, wet hand touched Anya’s other arm, and this time she nearly choked on her own tongue, still unable to make any appreciable sound. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She must have left the room, because something cold and smooth touched my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he touched her she felt like she were a great golden bell that had just rung out its first note. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The room itself smelled faintly musty, as if it was too infrequently aired, and the sheets of the bed seemed faintly damp when he touched them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He touched the man’s hand and demanded confirmation. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched his nose gingerly, then looked up at the sky for a moment before walking past me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The kemmerer kept his place, and kept still when the Pervert touched him again. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing has been touched. I was careful not to move the body in making my examination.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could step away, the point of a sword touched my throat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The phenomenon fades when the stones are immaculately cleaned, vanishes when they are heated to furnace temperature, and reappears when they are simply touched by the hand again before being struck. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilse hesitated a moment, his eyes on the plate of food, which he had barely touched during the last few minutes. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He’s got a long glass of dark brown stuff in front of him and he’s hardly touched it,’ she reported. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm tired of listening to this junk,” said Mildred, turning from him to the announcer again Montag touched the volume control in the wall and the announcer was speechless. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned into the RV and touched her chin. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They touched down gently on the dark trees in the wood, and Jack found himself taking a step closer. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry,” she said, and touched his shoulder. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“First he said how pretty I was. Then he grabbed my arm and touched me.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room had not been touched since its former occupant had left. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slender, shining silver thread stretched across the ravine, and the moment she touched it, it triggered something deep in the large cave. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He touched the head of the sickly and felt their heat. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hadn't touched her anywhere that you couldn't show on television. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I touched my face, the skin of my arm, and my brown hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But for those not yet touched by the disease and certainly for the generations as yet unborn, prevention is the imperative need. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And he touched his hand to his cap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I never touched them,” I said, though no one was really listening. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I went over and touched the wood, feeling the bumpiness of it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, your fingertips touched the outside of my thigh. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A wave drew back, like a hand, then advanced and touched my foot. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There’s never been another ballplayer who touched people as Jackie did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the back of his ear and his fingers came away spotted with blood. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I touched him; his body was rigid and his hair was still on edge. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bow of the American boat had touched the line in 6:25.4, six-tenths of a second ahead of the Italian boat, exactly a second ahead of the German boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Kirke regarded me, as there I sat disconsolate, and never touched a crust. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia’s hands burned, as if everything she touched would burst into flame. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Polly touched her arm but couldn’t think how to help her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment it touched the stone the poor thing became quiet and fell all into a tremble. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sorrento said, finally breaking his silence as we touched down and the ramp lowered. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I want to rip my face off and replace it with one that’s never been touched by that swine.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When she touched it with her finger, ropes of slime pulled away from its surface. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her two hands lay curling into each other upon the pink and silken lap of her robe, and he would not have dreamed that they were to be touched. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Annabeth started considering ways to pick the lock, but as soon as she touched the pull ring, a fiery shape burned in the middle of the door: the silhouette of Athena’s owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Methuselah touched a paw to his nose knowingly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her hands and feet were gnarled from arthritis, her back so bent her chest nearly touched her knees unless she propped herself up with an elbow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He stopped again, and lowered the tip until it touched ground again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman asking the questions touched her ear. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he touched the wall, but everything he felt was smooth. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second heavy one touched him on the shoulder. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the bay, I almost touched a whale, thought Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was no world anywhere he could open into; everywhere he touched, it was solid rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They gaped at him, pushed at him, touched him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s something wrong with that pig of yours. He hasn’t touched his food.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The smell of barely touched leather seemed to fill the room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He whirled around just as my hand touched the door, and slammed it shut. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I especially liked how her earrings sometimes touched her neck. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Macon paused again and touched his cut lip as though that were where the pain that showed in his eyes was coming from. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burl and Lenny would come in and make tomato sandwiches, leaving greasy black fingerprints on everything they touched. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I wrapped myself with the blanket and curled up on my side in such a way that no part of me touched the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when he touched the skin of her elbow, she lurched from him, stumbled. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The king touched her cheek, his fingers brushing across the rough stone as gently as if it were living flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds, he flinched in pain and touched his face cautiously. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She touched the long arm of the tiller, resting against the stern. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a breath, touched her tongue to her top lip, then said, “I think there is always hope, Comfort, always hope. But I also believe Dismay is...gone.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In desperation Roy touched the button once more, and a third picture clicked into view. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time either had touched the other. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eased his hand, the fingers spread wide, up the center of her back and her face came toward him and her lips touched his, like something he had imagined. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

No matter where he walked, shadows hid his face, and scorpions that stung him died of the corruption they had touched. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When her feet touched the ground her knees almost buckled, and she grabbed at the horse’s mane for balance, her other hand still held firmly in his grasp. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the hand reached out and gently touched him and he said, 'Now, you must take on the burden. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the girl’s legs strained upward until only the tips of her toes touched the sand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She made no protest when the friend touched the small of her back as she was about to make a pot of coffee, then pulled her against his crisp navy suit. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Archer touched his fingers to his forehead, his way of asking a question. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The water moved and his foot touched the earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then she touched one finger to the goat's forehead, between its yellow eyes, and let go of the rope. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was holding his hand, his father standing tall because his family had been touched by God. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then Janina reached out and touched the skirt of the lady’s black-and-white checkerboard dress. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She touched the thong from which hung the polished stone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Walt hands us our vests and our ID badges, and I am touched to see that he has made up two for me, one with “Barbara” and another with “Barb.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men and women had demons hiding inside them that fled screaming when the hammer touched them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was only when he touched it, and felt the chill, that he knew it for certain. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I reached up and touched my earlobe, and my hand came away red. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This time what she touched felt hot and wet, as if she had put her hand in somebody’s mouth, and she pulled it back with a small wail. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Gently, she touched his brow, swallowing the fear that wanted to choke her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say more, tell him how touched I was by his act of kindness, how much I appreciated all that he had done for me, all that he was still doing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She took his hand and touched it to her face, pressed it against her breast. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I touched his waist, tentatively, ran my hands up his back and I felt something break open inside me, something that felt like surrender. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One at a time they went and touched the statue’s fading red heart. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched a white sweater hanging on the back of a chair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I touched my face and it was wet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No, he thought, if I touched him he would try to kill me. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first time that I was touched by war I was twelve. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Gently I touched the bubble to leaf four. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Blue days, as they sprinted against the sea breeze and chased the gulls until Turner finally, finally, finally touched a tail feather. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A hand touched Z’s shoulder, and he opened his eyes to see Rashid’s looking at him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Aaron and Nia moved closer until their knees touched, and I could only imagine the energy that was going through those knees. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Galton’s talk might not have generated the effusive endorsement that he had expected—he later groused that his audience was “living forty years ago”—but he had obviously touched a raw nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I touched his shoulder again and Rowdy flinched. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The walls around them were made of bricks of half a hundred colors, but the shadows turned them all to grey until touched by the light of the torch that Gerris carried. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Percy touched the point of his sword, and Riptide shrank back into a pen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She unclipped herself and reached up with both her hands and touched her thumbs together, and made football goalposts around Quendy’s face. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor horses only touched their lips to the water, but a fine spirited beast put his whole nose and mouth under, and only left room to breathe. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin slid the chain around her neck, and when it touched her skin it was cold for only an instant, and then it felt as though she had always worn it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t touched me, but it felt like he had. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He felt something hard at the corners of his lips and touched it with his fingers; it was frozen saliva. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, good, good,” he said, sliding back into the chair until his short legs no longer touched the worn rug. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bull waited for a moment, staring at Edward; and then with his hands still firmly around Edward’s waist, the man reached one enormous finger up and touched Edward’s head from behind. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Distracted, I touched a wrong note and there was a burr in the music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers through my hair and then rested ’em on my shoulders and then touched my cheeks and then slowly pulled away and just looked at me grinning. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Horatio’s words filled my veins with sorrow and touched my heart like the quickest poison, bringing blackness like the oblivion of death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When, finally, Diana stood back and told the girl to pull the lever into place, Lyddie touched Diana’s shoulder. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I touched Dad’s hand quietly with my own. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were. All the things you did...you had to be. And Mama said she touched you too.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He dipped a finger into the dregs and very cautiously just touched the finger with the tip of his tongue. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s start by saying, ‘Dear Nancy, you touched me very much with your story about your mother. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry kept his eye on the revolution-counter; when the needle touched the twelve hundred mark, he threw the helicopter screws out of gear. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I am really afraid, Eleanor thought, and put her feet forward one after another, shivering as they touched the path, shivering with mindless cold. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They touched him and smelled him to see if it was really he. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched his forehead and said, It would take a body. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thought shivered him—as if he had almost touched a whale.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

So of course I tensed up when he touched me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She preened, then touched the gland near the top of her tail and lubricated her dry feathers with its oils. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Because I could see, for all his anxiety about his elbow, Tommy was touched by all the concern he believed had been shown him. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby were the tickle-violets which used to make their youngest daughter laugh when she touched them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He released the necklace and touched it again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She could have touched his body lightly with her fingers, and felt his smooth skin turn to gooseflesh. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched Nailer’s shoulder, Nailer cried out. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Vern extended his hand from under the blanket and touched my arm. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

No one’s touched anything since we were here last time. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

For his sake and because she was touched by his thinking of her, Katie ate the salad. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The finger had touched the last warm coal in his hearth, and his body, fanning the ember, shook itself violently. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center there was a slight glistening, and as she touched it again, she felt it slide easily under her fingers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pulled and twisted and got my legs loose finally and turned around and touched him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I reached out my crooked arm and touched the hem of her royal blue robe and her matching cloth slippers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed a kindly gesture and Briony was touched by her sister’s capacity for forgiveness, if this was what it was. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A bottle of Agua Florida was on the bathroom shelf and he touched the stopper to his temples. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He's never done that to Ma—to me and Sunny, yes—but he's never touched our mother in front of us like this. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But if it turns out I’m not from Penikese, other people will treat me different,” I said, remembering the schoolmaster as he scoured the handle I’d touched. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Harry seized it by its rubied hilt and touched the tip of the blade to a silver flagon nearby, which did not multiply. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She touched her staff to the raft, and the wood warmed beneath my wrists and ankles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as the tomato touched Jonas’s mouth, his lips began to quiver. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Nathan’s foot touched the ground in the middle of a cedar forest that was near the ceremonial site. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had barely touched her sandwich or fries, or much food at all, for that matter. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She could feel the buzz it was making before she touched it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The two men were touched to receive the award. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Five months, since I had seen her body, maybe eight or nine since I’d really touched her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the necklace, giving the word for it, and I gave mine. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment they touched the creature’s skin, it shrieked. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t think she even noticed she had touched me, but the pit of my stomach might near flipped over. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She believed that blood-poisoning would set in if the arm were touched. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her glass and touched her lips to it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand touched a patch of Arctic peas. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun touched the horizon, the fishermen abruptly went into their tents. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuff he actually touched at some point, that may have been a part of his everyday life. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Felicia, her eyes closed tight, cautiously patted the floor until she touched the peeled grapes her sister had left for her there, and screamed to holy hell. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The toe of his sandal touched against something hard. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Now, sitting alone in his dark house, Werfel reached up to his shoulder—and something touched him! The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She lunged for me and touched my cheeks with her chubby fingers, like it was just any other day. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When Park touched her, it felt better than anything she'd ever felt in her whole life. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She smiled, then came close to me and reached out with the comb and touched my head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m sure it wouldn’t have been the same if the astronaut had said “The Spider has landed” when they first touched down on the moon’s surface. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He touched each button carefully between thumb and forefinger, starting at her waist. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It infiltrated Xerox machines and worked its way inside personal computers and inside the cushions of chairs and fingered down into the floor drains until it touched pools of lingering bleach in the water traps. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis obeyed her, sank into the skins, slept before her head touched the back of her blanket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Terrified, she could only weep silently as he touched her, rubbing his hand over her arms, her back, her legs. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he’s tired of being touched by strangers: Come back to me when you’re done being flung through the firmament, you lost Pleiad. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched her with the bull hook since we discovered the language barrier. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I want to touch something. Tell me of an object! Tell me something I could have touched!” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He touched Garfield's arm to speed him along to safety. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You touched him before, a little voice whispered at the back of my mind, and nothing happened then.... The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s not being anything, ever. You might not be tortured, but you’ll also never be touched.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nathan touched the bow guard and could no longer understand what the singers were saying. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A tiny smudge of blood came from the place where the blade touched the skin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She touched underneath my eye as light as a feather. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he fell I wasn’t even there, I never touched him, not even the time I stood over him and wanted to hit him to make him shut up. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Backing from under the porch on his hands and knees, he touched the lantern and tipped it over. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our horse reared in fright, and I struggled to keep my seat, till the giant reached down and touched the beast gently on his muzzle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the small radio to Michael’s blond head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena’s hand burned when it touched the water, and she thrashed, but the princess held her firm, saying words in a tongue the assassin didn’t understand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I touched them and could feel the soil fall off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the horn and a great roar of sound echoed from the rocks of the bay. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The fish jerked when the nail touched it, but R.C. held it firm. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Young boys throw stones at dogs because they are najis and shouldn’t be touched. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If he had once touched the Stone, or spoken to it, he would have been utterly lost. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I touched her arm, and she stopped rustling around the kitchen long enough to look at me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One hand wandered up to the spot where Alfhercht had touched him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I asked him in a whisper, and touched his shoulder. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His hands expertly touched places on her neck, and unconsciousness came. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Adam touched her wrist with his finger, and her fingers moved a little in reflex. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under Mrs. Dudley’s eye Theodora deliberately lifted her cup and finished the last of her coffee, then touched her mouth with her napkin and sat back. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first that he had touched me since he had been sent to the Center, and it was so unexpected that I involuntarily pulled my hand back. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched the line with my name, but he eliminated everything else with a roller brush and fast-drying white paint. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why. They wanted the fingerprints of everybody who’d been in the room on Thursday and touched things.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ocean tried, several times, to say it correctly, and I was genuinely touched. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to devise some strategy that might allow me to casually touch them, just like Julia had touched my arm. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I’d recently turned into a cranky, disobedient girl, and so, with my dinner hardly touched, I ran to my room and slammed the door. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everything that Charlie touched seemed to be made of ice, and each time he stepped outside the door, the wind was like a knife on his cheek. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She touched his arm, and a tiny electric shock passed between them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were also others, people we’d never met, who had been touched, and they were in the wards, too. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled back, and his eyes were the same—green, long-lashed, touched with honey—but they were tired, defeated. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Just before the scene, I thought about Sam, and I thought that if I touched her in that way on stage and meant it, it would be cheap. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax touched the lichens on the top of her frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though his disdain of human contact had converted itself into a craving for things humans had touched. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so good, to be touched by someone, to be felt so greedily, to feel so greedy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had goosebumps where the handcuffs touched his skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As good as I could. But she keeps talking about her leg. His...” her eyes slid towards Neeley, “...well, you know, touched her leg.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips curled back and his tongue touched her mouth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing in it touched, nothing used, nothing here wanted by anyone any more, just sitting here thinking.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she walked onto the stage, she was so nervous the podium shook when she touched it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He touched the blank of the face, tenderly it seemed, planted his chisel at the forehead and was about to come down on her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I turned around and touched his face, loving the familiar first. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the gold cross hanging from her neck. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sasha touched the field of pimples on his face, an unspoken anxiety screaming directly at her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Daringly, they touched the tips of their tongues, and it was then she made the falling, sighing sound which, he realized later, marked a transformation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She touched her hair, positive it was a mess, and wondered if the pastor had seen her laughing at the ants. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For years I thought a girl might get pregnant if you touched her breasts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As he touched each place, he said, “The seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in her life a man had touched her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland followed a few paces after her and his hands, also, touched boards of the fence to steady himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She nodded and touched my arm, then turned away. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Bending down, he touched it to the string, which of course wasn’t a string, but a fuse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was signed by Tristran, and beside his signature was a fingerprint, which glittered and glimmered and shone when the shadows touched it as if it had been dusted with tiny stars. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She touched her scar with a slender finger. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the cold wind touched her skin, she shivered violently. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The orange drips turned to red, like blood, and made terrible sizzling noises when they touched her skin. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched his nose, there was blood on his fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell if anything had been touched. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had been touched by a daughter of Eve! The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He touched his nose to Hazel’s, turned and hopped away into the undergrowth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the room was dark, light touched the metal fastenings on a wooden box, a fold of blue cloth on the table, the curve of the woman’s forehead, the creamy lemon of her jacket. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

That morning an apple and a glass of milk were enough for him; because he touched neither coffee or tea, he was accustomed to begin the day on a cold stomach. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to understand these two sets of people who lived side by side and never touched, it seemed, except in violence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Con pulled his horse to a stop and slid out of the saddle, but when his feet touched the ground he felt unexpectedly shy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She touched the first photograph, then touched Baachan’s arm again, and she said, “You’re pretty and petite, just like Papa said.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A tall thin boy grinned happily upward, touched his cap. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched it, drew it out from the case, put it against my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, touched the ball with his foot, and stepped back three paces. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the full sunlight shining down she scarcely glittered at all, save for where the darkest shadows touched her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my cheeks redden and for a moment I felt sorry for him until I touched my nose and there was a little smudge of blood on my upper lip. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She felt her cheeks, touched her eyes, traced the line of her jaw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With great effort, his consciousness touched hers again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She leaned so close to the paper that the tip of her nose nearly touched it, and she inhaled its pulpy odor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mom gets up and throws away her paper dinner plate, even though she’s barely touched her meal. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she moved, her feet touched the ground gently. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, a hundred tears or one,” the woman said, obviously cross to have her account disputed, “when her tear fell on the wall, the part it touched just collapsed—as if crushed by her sorrow.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tommy touched my arm and pointed to a framed picture hanging in a corner over a little round table. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knelt down and touched it cautiously with her hands. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They’d probably get shot if they touched these things,” Florida said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja and I touched the crystal shaker, my finger brushed his gently, then he let go. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He touched his temple, asking what was wrong. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Through the windshield he watched as Ronny circled around the goat, touched it quickly on its side, then trotted back to the car. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She herself had zero patience for dudes who wore their baseball caps backward and always talked about “getting girls,” even though Maya was pretty sure that they had never even touched one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ladies seemed flattered by his attention, but the mere thought of being touched by his fleshy hands made me shudder. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My blouse and skirt hideously clash; I’ve put on the first clothing my hands touched. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It touched me that she wanted to be close. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

This touched off a parade of boycott leaders who filed inside the courthouse one by one and minutes later came out, freshly booked and fingerprinted, descending the steps into a cheering crowd of spectators. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As the cheering continued, Rhyme leaned forward and touched Milo gently on the arm. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her lips touched his skin, he sucked in an involuntary, desperate breath and a weight slammed into his chest. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was touched very deeply by the soldier in white. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It touched parts of you that were small and frightened and wanting your mommy. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver took the bill, touched the butt of his whip to the rim of his plug hat and shook the horse’s reins. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Witch saw that she was once more in the wood she turned pale and bent down till her face touched the mane of the horse. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It touched down, and just as it began to taxi on the tarmac, the grandmother screamed and dropped her handbag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I touched his cheek, but he didn’t wake again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He listened intently to the hiss, then he touched his broken faceplate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Improbable as it seemed, something about the story had touched a nerve in the community. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hag skin was a smooth blue color against the brown fabric and felt cool when I touched it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Clumsily she reached over and touched his arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the widow's fingers touched the smooth, delicate threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Secretly then, as though he were afraid he might be caught, he straightened her hand and touched the little cushion pads on the fingertips. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My cheek stung, and I touched my jaw while she glowered at me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Needle never touched him,- he reeled backward and fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He touched the cave’s wall and a piece of it gave way in his hand. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wishes, according to Maeve, could not be touched until after May Day. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then I reached up and touched my split lip. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was up, and the world was normal-size again, but the wheels had not yet touched the earth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The cloudy yellow sandstone of Enchanted Mesa was still smoky blue before dawn, and only a faint hint of yellow light touched the highest point of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a black dragon devouring everything it touched. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Park hadn't told her about his dad's twenty-year-old Playboys, but he hadn't touched them since he met her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dimple smiled, touched at the realization that Celia really thought of them as friends. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Toby toed the different pedals, unsure if he was happy when he easily touched each one. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, good luck,” he said as I touched the handle. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her hands touched something bulky and she gave an exclamation of surprise. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grizzled, gray old parkhand could never know how much Maniac was tempted, or how deeply the offer touched him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lime-green of spring came one night and touched the river trees. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman put her hands to her head, tears flooded from her eyes, and she flung herself full-length on the grass, weeping with a passion that touched Malcolm’s heart with fear. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman seemed terribly affected by this; he went to her side and knelt down to take her hand, and Kaede realized by the way he touched her that he loved the Queen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And he touched the cool, wet, perfect smoothness of whale. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The creature gave a dreadful squeal as Beowulf touched him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He filled a glass of water and set it in front of me, then gently pushed the pills forward until they touched my arm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lee looked up slowly, focused, slowly smiled, put out a hand, touched Longstreet’s arm. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora moved to one part of the collection and touched a metal loop with spikes radiating toward its center. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I felt her stiffen away when 1 touched her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He finally acknowledged that what he carried in his arms was not Sarai but only a husk, empty now of the mind and soul that had touched his in their dreaming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They went right to a place that no other teacher, and no parent, had touched. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The most petite sheet-wearing person touched my arm and gestured for me to walk away from that gathering toward another patch of bushes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I’d wondered for some time why Shady kept that bottle of whiskey right out in the open but never touched a drop of it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One foot almost touched down onto the roof, but Tally was pulled up again, still barreling forward with the momentum of her leap off the hill. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I touched my back pocket where the pictures of Mama were and didn't say anything. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And then all the times he had touched her body and the fragrance of all that cedar . Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I touched all the keys that I could reach, and that made me feel OK, for some reason. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wielaf crossed the first and middle fingers of both hands, touched the crossed tips in front of his body, and then swung his hands out. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now he touched his gloved fingers to where the sleeve of his coat covered that mark. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Still heaving to get his breath, Mark touched his sore neck. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With her cucumber hand she touched her new haircut. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull finished his first beer a full second faster than Colonel Causey, stepped quickly aside for Reynolds, who had sucked down three large swallows before his opponent’s hand had touched glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke so effortlessly, as if his mouth were a musical instrument that just let sound out when touched, when opened. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stretched myself out beside him, close to him in the darkness, and as we touched he turned abruptly towards me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed my feet down until they touched the water. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing, nothing; it was a stroll through another store, and his currency strange and unusable there, and his passion cold, even when he touched the wood and plaster and clay. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt it when he touched me, tentatively, like I might spook at any second. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as the water touched my legs, my muscles turned to jelly and I fell face- first into the current I submerged completely. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then our hands were pulled behind our backs until our elbows touched, making our chests tight from the pressure. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After I made it up the front steps I reached forward and touched the doorknob and gave it a turn. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I either scored or made a long gain every time I touched the ball. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She touched the fabric and felt tension, danger, and a warning from it. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened, the Faculty Board passed my petition, and my Class Dean told me later that several of the professors were touched by it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the biggest tornado ever spotted in the Hudson Valley touched down only fifty miles from Yancy Academy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know that I hardly touched the ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could reach Summer whenever he wanted, and once he had even touched Ghost and talked to Jon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That man didn’t sleep for three days, rushing around getting things for Ultima and me, and he never touched the bottle.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked so concerned at this that I realized I must have touched a nerve. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As the sun sank lower and touched the edge of the cloud belt on the horizon, Hazel came out from under the branches and looked carefully round the lower slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tip of his nose touched the strange substance into which he was staring. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I stuck my hand in my pocket again, and this time when I touched the feather, I felt my fingers tingle. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched his mouth and his lip opened up, and the blood came sliding out, seeping. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

An evil presence seemed afoot, and my skin prickled as if touched by invisible ghosts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I reached into my pocket and touched the horn-handled jackknife, then waved again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Jason looked at her or touched her hand, Piper felt like that. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He smiled at me and touched my arm in greeting. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the faint smell that warned her what it was before it touched her tongue soon made her feel like retching, but she drained the cup all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"This room has not been touched this morning,” I said, "even the windows were shut. And the flowers are dead. Will you please take them away?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

No one touched the book, and day by day the dust grew on it. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she touched his arm and said, “Don’t worry, if he put the manuscript in a box, it will be safe from termites.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I would have picked purple myself,” she replied, and touched her hair. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Whenever you touched me I thought you were comparing me to Rebecca,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What makes you think you can build a house like that?” my mother asked me gently but in a tone touched with sarcasm. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched his shoulder briefly, and he flinched. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lydia touched his shoulder again and shook him slightly. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want us to fight, so we had to get in line, and when our turn came, people handing out clothes would put their hands in a bag and pull out whatever they touched. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painstaking work had just one aim: to plant a crop that would end up taking the life of every worker who touched it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

All this time and that great pile hardly touched! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Lena slipped her pale hands on either side of Håkon’s red face and touched her forehead to his. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

One hand hung over the edge of the mattress, a pale frail fleshless thing, but warm when she touched it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lemoncello touched his ear once more and continued, “‘And now, it’s time for the addendum.’” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I touched the place on my shirt where I’d stuck the black Mary. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost touched her before thinking better of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She knelt by Ultima’s path and touched the hem of her dress as she passed by. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pain flared in his lower back - so sharp and cold he thought Khione the snow goddess had touched him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Shin did not distinguish himself with diligence and rarely touched soap. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Otto let the disappearing camera fall, now so light and insubstantial, it arced back and forth slowly, like an autumn leaf released from a tree branch, before it touched the stage lightly. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She touched her mouth and felt her teeth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If the morning sounds and smells were touched with the supernatural, the late afternoon had all the features of the normal Arkansas life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted to look at my face, then reached out and touched my arm. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She reached out a hand and touched him, and it broke the spell. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor kept asking, “You feel anything?” as he touched and squeezed parts of my body where I had been wounded or shot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Catherine smiled at me and touched me with her foot under the table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When J.T. sat down, his lawyer touched him on the shoulder. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The lights of the first part of the room barely touched it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dangers of the melee were - only a savor to Robert, but this touched on his pride. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mia touched a knuckle to her brow, as if she’d forgotten the scar existed, and a drop of warm sudsy water ran down her temple. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We had a toaster that shocked you every time you touched it; we called our toast shocktoast and we got shocked so much our hair stood on end like Buckwheat’s. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam stood up, touched his toes, and stretched. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I struck a few quiet chords, then touched the pegs, tuning it ever so slightly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I see that breakfast has not yet been touched,” Penelope commented. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As soon as any light touched the water, it sank beneath the surface and disappeared, gobbled up by the darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He touched the materials of the linings and tested the strength of the frames. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I touched the pen cap to the sword tip and instandy Riptide shrank to a ballpoint pen again. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With my hands I parted the rustling grasses and cupped the dying flowers’ heads gently, saying farewell to all that I touched. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He released the carrot and touched the zebra’s soft nose. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I touched a point on the map near the core of the planet, indicating my destination, and the software mapped the quickest route for me to get there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched Tally’s hair, tangled and knotted from two weeks of camping out and riding all day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In one way or another, he had touched all their lives. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the green and silver leaf that fastened his cloak beneath his throat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"You should answer the phone," I said with forced calm, trying to release my hands without touching her, for if I touched her — "And you'll continue?" she said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the drawing and closed her eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She trailed off, then touched Ruth on the shoulder again. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby glanced at me for a split second, touched her mouth, and blinked. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When one of the soldiers came to search me, I pushed him and told him that if he touched me I would kill him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Thomas felt a burst of warmth in his chest, reached up and actually touched it, surprised at himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He could not be seen or touched or spoken to, and the room where they had spent so many hours had been rented to a girl who worked as a typist. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And at once, thin ink lines began to spread like a spider’s web from the point that George’s wand had touched. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He touched the screen door in back, found it open, slipped in, moved across the porch, listening. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she closed the door she heard voices and instinctively touched her loose hair. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gasping for breath, I flailed around until my feet touched bottom. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its windows and doors were also metal, and, as we stepped in, I touched the wall and burned my fingers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t hurt when he touched me, like it normally does. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the flaming Po-2 touched the ground, the searchlights came back on and caught a second plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I barely touched him,” Will protested as he retreated to the back of the line and dropped to the gym floor. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I saw them; I touched them; and since it wasn’t me who did this but Rex Reese I didn’t have to feel guilty, didn’t have to ask myself if I was having unnatural desires. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As I say, that was about the only time Tommy and I touched directly on his theory that spring. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig, still trailing his horrible, smooth peg, staggered up to him and touched his nose with his own. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those lives that have touched mine so briefly—most of them I don’t even know their real names, like Julie’s great-aunt and the driver of the Rosalie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Eet was no trouble,” said Fleur Delacour, setting the tray across Harry’s knees and then swooping to kiss him on each cheek: He felt the places where her mouth had touched him burn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trace of the smell of sulfur touched the foul, damp air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched my face and looked at the blood on my fingertips, then glanced at her, annoyed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The moment she touched him, his upper body seized like he’d been electrocuted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She touched the drop and brought her fingertip back wet; but the drop of water, though it rolled a little, remained as round and perfect as before. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yedsha stood near a sword, inspecting the handle so closely that his nose nearly touched it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Given a choice between traditional discipline—which would probably have meant Saturday school—and participating in a restorative justice circle with the three girls he’d touched, Jeff chose restorative justice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Curly hair as pale as spun straw spilled over his shoulders, and eyes like icicles touched on the crowd of villagers for a heartbeat each. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She felt around until her fingers touched Mother’s jar. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure the only female lips Sean Russell Flaherty had ever touched besides his mom’s were flickering images on a computer monitor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Basil Stag Hare eyed the food which Matthias had hardly touched. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He bent down, touched the ash on the floor beside the fire, sniffed it, then touched it to his tongue. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lightly, she touched his hand and inhaled deeply. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama tugged at her ear and touched her diamond stud earring. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bare seconds later, it had slammed into the prisoner, pinning him to the ground as he screamed, its poison dripping over his face, leaving smoky trails wherever it touched his skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mother touched him, and he wet his pants. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled him behind the nearest boulder, wedging herself so close against the riverbank that her shoes almost touched the river’s fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And while her father played another song, a song about the deep purple falling over sleepy garden walls, the princess reached out and touched the top of the mouses head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He laughed, and something touched my hair — his lips? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Wherever it touched, the grass withered and died. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about the fact that Ocean and I had only touched by accident and what if we’d touched on purpose and wow, I wondered if my head would just explode. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ambling out of the parlor, he came over to me, grinning, and touched my shoulder. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Scythe Curie touched him on the shoulder, he turned, and their eyes met, but only for the slightest moment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Tyrion touched his face, plucking at the proud flesh with blunt thick fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I touched the page where the square section jutted out, narrowing the back part of the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She felt his glance go over the scar on her forehead almost as though he had touched it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I raised my arms and touched his face; he remained still. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had often imagined that his own head was filled with cogs and gears like a machine, and he felt a connection with whatever machinery he touched. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

His arms had goosebumps where the handcuffs touched his skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the result of his conversion, he hated alcohol and had con-tempt for those who touched it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to make my way towards the doors, but before I could reach them, M. Dupont touched my arm. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ranofer raised his voice above the surrounding noises and touched the old man on the shoulder as he spoke. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Chas Becker was not pleased when I pulled the covers off his face and actually touched his bare arm, shaking him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Felward’s Falling,” I said with something that touched the outward boundary of respect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gently he touched the puppy with his finger. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They touched me cautiously, as if I might break. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She saw that he touched the scar on his forehead very often, rubbed it, and drew its outline with his fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Where its icy legs touched her, she got goosebumps. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy looked doubtful, but he touched the cap to the hilt of the sword. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched my hand like she was making sure I was real, then said, “Thank you, boy!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Her father touched his own scarred face again. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched my hand to my cheek, tracing the scar lightly with my fingers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched the screen, rubbing her finger from one cell to the next. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up a french fry, thinking how his hand had touched it and now I was putting it to my lips. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The whiskers that protected his sensitive nose and warned him of objects nearby, twitched as her breath touched them. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she touched each baby’s cheek and told her not to cry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether to seem touched or annoyed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the side of his face and then reached down and wrenched the twenty-four-footer into gear. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re such a Yankee, Bull. Living in the South so many years, and you still haven’t been touched by the South. The gentility, the courtliness, none of it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother reached out and touched her chin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The words echoed in his mind, touched his eardrums—he could hear them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I rearranged the food so that none of it touched and dipped my spoon into the gelatinous hill, which was firmer than I expected. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bird, now gold so close to the sun, would come to rest on the thatch of a hut, which, until the bird’s two feet touched it, was camouflaged as part of the mountainside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it turned I reached for its hind flipper, but as soon as I touched it I recoiled in horror. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out and touched the end of a muddy wooden stick, a digging tool of some kind, sitting next to a small wooden hoe beside me on the boat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It rolled and down he went As the cold river water touched his body, he let out a yell that could have been heard for miles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the metal again, gauging its slickness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Part of the taboo of being an Untouchable was expecting not to be touched. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delia touched her face and forehead and asked her if she wanted some of the water they’d been saving just for her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Iorek watched closely, and touched the edge of the window with his paw, and sniffed at it, and stepped through into the hot, moist air to look around in silence. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jason and Leo touched down in a big piazza lined with white marble government buildings and outdoor cafés. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Or was the figure, the vision as he thought of it, a thing that touched him before its fall? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the accompanying letter, Martha wrote that she had found the pebble on the Jersey shoreline, precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new book, that had not been touched. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was so touched by how easily he and his family had taken me under their wing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Under the table their naked feet touched, they played a gentle game of footsie. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davos touched the little pouch that hung from the leather thong about his neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As I pulled away, the dog ripped my pants and his cold teeth touched my skin. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once a year everything touched by the Inka—clothing, garbage, bedding, saliva—was ceremonially burned. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ma touched my hand with a pressed smile. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And she touched a spot just above the outer curve of one cinnamon eyebrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had been advised to have massages, but I never liked them: I hate to be touched by mercenary hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister and I never touched each other, so we pulled away. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Seeing Daddy’s jaw tighten and his eyes narrow, Grandma touched his hand to stay him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man touched his hat, took his bag, put on his coat and departed; not a soul took the slightest notice of the whole transaction. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He touched the molten gold that was creeping down his face, and smoke rose from his finger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mechanical lizard’s armored head almost touched the top of the spherical shield. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Traft touched the brim of his hat as he passed me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our boats touched with a bump even sweeter- sounding than a turtle’s. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d smile at the stranger, and Char’s heart would be touched. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She rose from her bedroll as the first rays of dawn touched the still-dark sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You go away like this,” he pointed to the thumb, “and come back like this,” he touched the little finger. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The creature slipped off the bed and bowed so low that the end of its long, thin nose touched the carpet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His hand had been warm when he touched me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Matt was touched by her offer, although he knew there wasn’t a chance of it happening. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He delicately touched my forehead and recoiled, as if my skin might burn him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as we do this, butter our skin to keep it soft, we can believe that we will some day get out, that we will be touched again, in love or desire. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its branches touched the high roofbeams of the hall, and on every twig of every branch a golden apple shone, each a sun, for it was the Year-Tree. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No one touched your book box. It’s still under the bed. Elinor looked.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She traced it with her fingers, eyes closed, recalling the feeling of Lazlo’s lips and hands, the exquisite paths of sensation that came alive wherever he touched her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He did not like the women who reached out and touched him with their gloved hands or the ones that leaned down to kiss him, bumping his head with their wide hats. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled away and touched my face with her hand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The old woman threw her a look touched by a hint of amusement. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tilly licked my hands, and I touched her on the head before letting her out the back door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Earnestness is ever deeply solemn: first, as I listened to that prayer, I wondered at his; then, when it continued and rose, I was touched by it, and at last awed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The snow, falling from the cold sky upon the town, turned to a hot rain before it touched the ground. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What we saw was enough for Doctor Phillips even to make the identification alone without me. It was straightforward, simple. There was no trace of what I’d done. The bullet had not touched the bone.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Despite himself, however, he was involved in a relationship with Amanda that he had desperately wished for in his youth but that no longer touched him deeply and he felt incapable of sustaining. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s dysentery—which could be contagious, so we shouldn’t eat anything you’ve touched. I’m sorry.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Inside it was the nozzle touched by Dr. von Braun. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But it is one thing to see a snake and another to touch it. I have never touched one before.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought the hide had turned black from age, but he touched it and realized it had been painted black. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the girl smelled like her mother’s house, like the dab of perfume she had touched to her neck before school that morning. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She touched the end of the strip to a damp sponge, then, using the thumb and first two fingers of each hand as a rolling machine, she wound the paper on the wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the scar on his chest, remembering it again. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He began to put his glass on a table, and the maid robot managed to slide a coaster under it before it touched the wood. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Porscha Johnson has the reputation for being a little touched in the head. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo noticed that some trees were hardly touched, and when she tasted the fruit she understood why. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice was playing with Lyra, holding her up so her feet touched the ground, pretending to make her walk. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I will confess that until now, though I have prayed for the many stricken by this plague, the situation only touched me in a superficial way. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The gun lay under Johnny’s pillow for a month and was never touched. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It passed by them so close that they could have touched its mane. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The most” She petted my head for a while, and her fingers went behind my ear to that place that’s almost never touched. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Deprived of antennae, any termite can become a group termite if touched frequently enough by the others. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke of everything and nothing, and all the while I could hardly breathe for the nearness of her, the way she moved, the sound of her voice as it touched the autumn air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had touched the boat, had looked into the cabin, and all the while I sat on the cliffs and had not known. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head slowly and touched his cool lips to mine for the second time, very carefully, parting them slightly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He touched his cap and wondered if it were the right thing to do. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When autumn touched the trees he had got as far as Omaha, and without question or reason or thought he hurried west and south, fled through the mountains and arrived with relief in Southern California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was a tufted brown crew cut, as if his mother, Regina, or his sister, Joan, had clipped it one day and a comb hadn't touched it since. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As she touched them, they clicked into place. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Turner sat up slowly, touched his nose again, felt a new spurt of blood, and laid his head back. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My mother came and touched my forehead then began her mourning wail. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He repeated it with so much rage that it almost seemed to be fervor, and Captain Roque Carnicero was touched, because he thought he was praying. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My hand had gone numb as soon as I’d touched it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Artemis knelt and touched the ground as if looking for tracks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had touched each one, planted each one in rows. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stepped over the ferns and sat carefully, making sure my jacket was between the damp seat and my clothes wherever they touched, and leaned my hooded head back against the living tree. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She touched Jam’s cheek and gave her a soft, worried look before leaving with the serum, and Jam sagged with relief as soon as the door slid closed again. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A hand touched her shoulder, and she spun, jumping. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I woke up and hesitantly touched my side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He bent his head to hers so that their foreheads touched. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And although he had never touched them, they haunted him; all he could think of, all he dreamed of, were these white shell beads hanging in that tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He bent and touched the water with his hands. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were like a troupe of great, strange animals, of two different species; great apes with intelligent eyes, all of them in hit, in kemmer....They took my hand, touched me, held me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy felt sick and wanted to cry, but he touched Sounder on the good side of his head. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He slipped out of bed and shivered as his feet touched the cold floor, then he tiptoed to the window and saw that it had snowed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mademoiselle Reisz came and touched her upon the shoulder and spoke to her, the woman seemed to echo the thought which was ever in Edna’s mind, or, better, the feeling which constantly possessed her. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he bent down and touched their feet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pecola touched the scratched place on her face and felt tears coming. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mademoiselle Reisz came and touched her upon the shoulder and spoke to her, the woman seemed to echo the thought which was ever in Edna’s mind; or, better, the feeling which constantly possessed her. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I touched two fingers to it and looked at ’em and for some reason seeing my own blood like that made me calm down some. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The skin of his arms was pale and dull, as if it would crumble if Anya touched it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A basilisk didn’t look like much - just an arm-length serpent with yellow eyes and a white frill collar - but it moved fast and could kill anything it touched. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She never touched it until I came and picked her up. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should’ve carried her up the stairs to her room and tied her to the bed and touched that left knee all night long. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nail on her pinkie just barely touched the wound behind his ear. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She touched Thalia’s pine tree, then allowed herself to be lead over the crest and into the mortal world. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He yelled, “Jerks!” and the boys all cracked up, but no one else touched him. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Aru touched the image of the first key, the blossoming twig on her wrist. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That was the only time I ever touched that guy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lupita touched the little silver cross on its chain around her neck. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They moved more and more slowly as they climbed, and when the sun touched the mountain rims and they saw a little valley open below them, they decided to go no farther. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then our ancestor touched my mouth,” and I patted my cheek as if it already hurt. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, my hand touched a warm shelL I couldn’t blame the birds very much. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had he touched the ground than he jumped back up onto Seven and into her cloak pocket. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Both our feet hung off the edge of the mattress and touched the cool concrete floor, and we prayed that a little mouse or a big spider would not eat our toes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"You try to sound cynical, but I see through you. I know, I listened very carefully to what you had to say. You were enormously moved. Your emotions were touched." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told how Bigger had come to the house, how timid and frightened he had acted, and how moved and touched the family had been for him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Adam touched the new bills so that their edges came together, folded the tissue over them and turned the ends up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she leaned over, and touched the star's chest, between her breasts, with one cold finger. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The man, in an almost deliberate provocation, reached out and touched the fence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He touched the big mule-size ears, and they were still warm. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He touched my shoulder; “You have to accept it now. Be brave, and help your mother to bear up. She needs somebody now.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I touched my old foster sister’s phone once. Big mistake.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She made food that needed washing before it touched a knife, pot, or pan. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He reached down and touched the edge of the knife. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It is the first time he has touched her bare skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was drawn to observe the various manners in which men touched her, the grasp of their hands, the motions across the looped skirts and petticoats of her gown, the intricacies of her bodice. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Surprised, Archer touched the ring of white skin around his neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“They had some, Tommy. Oh, never mind. It was a sweet idea. I’m really touched. It was a great idea. This is Norfolk, after all.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed it on the coffee table, then lightly touched her mother’s shoulder. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Joe’s torch was huge and bright as the tip of one curtain in the window touched the flame. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the small lamp on the desk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He came closer and extended a hand until his fingertips nearly touched her chest. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In it were some people I was surprised and somehow touched to see. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But if they touched the fence again there would be consequences. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was actually touched, but not so much that I was above setting my magic phone onto her desk and ripping off her BlackBerry’s new password. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Mesmerized by her glory, I reached out and touched the sleeve of her emerald gown. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as his feet touched bottom in the shallows, he started bawling and lunging. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the warrior’s bare arm, relishing as he screamed in pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As she put the gun down carefully next to the bar of yellow soap, her hand accidentally touched the muzzle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched my cheek on her way out, saying: “It’s really good the way you always keep your spirits up, Kathy.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl laid his mush spoon on the table and touched his chin with his fingers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my fingers finally touched her dress, the war seemed to halt. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was so deep that his feet barely touched the bottom, and he actually did a couple of lengths before swimming back to the side and treading water, staring at the egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sierra dropped to one knee and touched her right hand to Robbie’s drawing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She pushed her hand into it, and she reached upward until she touched a cold hand, which was, she could feel, closed around another glass marble. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The dogs were humming and she touched their heads. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he touched her he couldn’t talk to her, if he loved her he couldn’t leave, if he spoke he couldn’t listen, if he fought he couldn’t win. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she rushed at me and threw her arms around my neck, the flame in her hand snuffing out just before she touched me, her skin hot where she’d held it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Clancy’s posture relaxed, and when he touched me again, flicking my braid back over my shoulder, there was no ill will behind it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Grover touched a tiny scratch, and it became a Greek A. The mark of Daedalus glowed blue, and the stone wall grinded open. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Miyax turned her head, touched him with her chin, and felt his limpness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the dark stain, the boy touched his finger to something. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids in that story were afraid they’d catch the cooties if they touched the old moldy cheese on the basketball court. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He touched his nose again arid decided that he probably shouldn’t try to push it back into place. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He held my hand when I touched his. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving suddenly, the woman seized Pantalaimon, and holding his mouse body in a fierce grip, she touched the tip of a spur to his leg. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned, looking around the room; he touched one finger gingerly to the letters on the wall and moved Theodora’s yellow shirt with his foot. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

If she had reached her hand through the bars, she could have touched it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had really touched him like that, not since Birdie and their fight several days ago. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She looked down at the tobacco, touched it lovingly, and asked the spirits for protection against the cold. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She stiffened as his mouth touched her skin, and though the kiss was brief, he breathed in the scent of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jethro frowned; he didn’t like to think of his sister Mary’s death, but some memory had been touched off as his thoughts wandered. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time I have voluntarily touched him since the last arena. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As the white rose petals caressed her face, I held my breath, waiting for that glorious moment, the moment when she would become more than ordinary, when she would be touched by the divine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She tried to get things straight in her head: She had touched this boy’s scar and understood the pain he had felt. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It was on display in Borgin and Burkes ages ago. The label said it was cursed. Katie must have touched it.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For an uncertain moment, neither of them knew what to do with the plastic flowers: Olanna held them half extended while Professor Achara touched but did not grasp them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There we stood on the train platform amidst the chaos, me in my flowered nightgown and my brother in a baby blue summer coat that nearly touched the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His feet barely touched the ground as he was swept along by the crowd of thousands of people running and screaming. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had wanted to, I could have touched one, even picked one up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A feeling that touched his eyes and made him blink. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fair boy reached out and touched the jagged end of a trunk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

With sudden fierceness, Clay jumped between Amari and the young man who had touched her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horace leaned over the bed and touched the back of Adam’s clenched right hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My noon had come, to dine, I, trembling, drew the table near, And touched the curious wine. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When the needle touched the record, a crackling sound was amplified through the bright red horn. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When the mercenary’s hands touched him, Bast’s face became a tight mask of pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The priest’s feet hardly touched the ground; he pointed his toes in an effort to support himself somehow. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The way it has tipped away from the creek, over the top of the picnic table, which it hasn’t touched, and landed with only its top inside the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He reached down and touched her feet, and then Pappa’s, asking for their blessings. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her fingers moved awkwardly as the pen touched the paper, but she carefully wrote her name, then the alphabet, three times. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I came to the top of the mound, reached out with my gloved hand, and touched the ceiling. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that first day, we barely touched our weapons. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He saw me cradling my wrist, touched the blood on my ear. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The first machine touched down and a fountain shot up into the air,” said Sofya. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Luke put out a tentative finger and touched the marble cupid gingerly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Summer stood over him, and Bran thought he was dead at first, but when Meera touched his throat, the maester moaned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Where she touched herself her flesh was taut and smooth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came toward her and touched the black stone with a gentle finger. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mother’s badger dæmon had left his corner and come to the door, and he and the cat dæmon touched noses and exchanged a whisper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jesper scrubbed the back of his neck, touched his hands to his guns, returned to his neck. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Charlie put out his hand and touched the screen, and suddenly, miraculously, the bar of chocolate came away in his fingers. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Liselin, of what do you accuse yourself? Has he touched you everywhere?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despereaux waited until she was gone, and then he reached out and, with one paw, touched the lovely words. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

If angels guided her safe through the woods and she made the north edge, she’d have to get past the guards watching over King’s Bridge, where New York Island touched the rest of America. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neck glistened wetly, but he made no sound when Jon peeled off a glove and touched him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet high, a swirling demon of green flame danced upon the river. lt had a dozen hands, in each a whip, and whatever they touched burst into fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He touched a comparatively sedate quartet of figures painted on the highest balcony, looking down calmly on the mayhem below them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then a woman in the group reached out and touched the arm of one of the men. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What use are hostages if they may not be touched?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And he had touched Violet now, and Link, and Marty, and from all of them, it was coming, We enter a time of calamity! Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see how keeping time was going to help a whole lot, but I was touched that Tyson was concerned. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them clearly when they passed me, bawling every time their feet touched the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched her face, her eyelids, and the trem- bling movement of her eyes somehow reassured her: She was still real. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he was thoughtful, his head bowed, then his hands gently touched the strings. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is. I mean, I’ve never touched an animal that was dead.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The health department says that once something has been served on a tray, it has to be thrown away even if no one touched it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We trudged through it, stumbled and fell in it, knelt in it, set our packs down in it, left a streak of it on everything we touched. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the picture in the pocket of my pedal pushers and stood up at the sound of Mrs. Baylor’s approaching steps. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She touched Park softly, gingerly, just in case she touched him wrong. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He had retrieved the cached ham and watched with pride as Bristle and Runt ate the meat, but he hadn’t touched any of it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The drawbridge reached the ground and Piggy was speeding across before it touched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly feel as much of each other as I had felt when Vivian had touched my bare wrist. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its thick braids touched the ground, and its sharp eyes followed me as I took a deep breath and gingerly stepped forward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Liam’s hand reached out and touched the small of my back. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Who wants to eat anything your fruity hands touched?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They touched a memory of the right world for a peregrine, a memory as old as her species’ time on earth. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He took a step forward and touched his fingertip to my cheek, to the bone that curved just under my left eye. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Here they were only lightly touched with green, not yet in full leaf. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he touched it, for a while all thought of the Ring was banished from his mind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her hand landed on the linen as the rusalka’s hand did the same, and the water spirit’s cold fingers touched Anya’s as they both grasped the cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When Dr. Begbie touched me again, brushing the hair out of my face, an image bloomed to life behind my eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They passed under where the water touched the ceiling, and then Ivan pulled threads to close the ditch of air behind them, forming an oblong bubble around them instead. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“So them Dillard Early boys are all a little touched in the head, seems. Sooner or later. About the time they decide to mess with serpents.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She almost touched him, almost, so close it made her grin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A man sitting nearby leaned forward and touched Johnny’s arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the way he moved, the way he touched things, the way he held his head up with such casual dignity. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The three remaining Richardson children clustered together in the doorway between the living room and the kitchen, so close their shoulders nearly touched. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t quite sure we had stopped until he reached back and touched my hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each was named for a major body of water that touched the counties within its boundary. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the sunlight touched her, it lit up more shades of tawny-brown-leaf-hazel-com-gold-autumn-mahogany than Lyra could name. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You touched the pink. According to the rules, that’s six points to me.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You should have asked before you touched the hand. But, yes, if you like.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked frail and sad, but he reached down and touched the mummy’s forehead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As soon as the bird’s feet touched down, the flimsy cover of the top comic gave way, and the bird—with a startled Oh! Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Governor closed his fingers over the light in his hand and touched the glass orb. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ash began to turn toward the buffet table, but Lore touched her arm and said, “No, come and sit with us.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the concert stage or over the airwaves, the transcendent quality of her voice touched her audiences deeply. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He touched his glass to hers and forced a smile. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig stared at Holly for a moment and then crouched before him and touched noses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as our canoe touched the shore, he smiled. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then, having no more territory to explore, they invented ways to leave their homeland, first on wings and later on rockets, until finally, in July 1969, they touched the face of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was only going to say that I wanted to clean the captain’s ear, but it’s too tender to be touched.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flinched when he touched her and tried to pull away, but Frankie held tight. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as if I were a little rabbit that could be easily startled, she touched her lips to my smooth cheek in a soft Mama kiss. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I can tell he’s touched by the way he’s looking at me, so I give him a smile. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the granite, trailed her fingertips over a few names, then a few more. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He whittled them with his knife, he rubbed them with sandpaper and with the palm of his hand, until when Laura touched them they felt soft and smooth as silk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had never touched her, and now he was, and she couldn’t feel a thing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Our lips have just barely touched when the clunk outside makes us jump. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I asked as the whirling, haunting sound touched us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for the glass and bottle, and carefully, on my knees, with bent head, crawled to the farthest wall Cobwebs touched my face with the softness of moths. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He touched the brim of his hat in a kind of a salute. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the Waystone, the light fell across Chronicler’s face and touched a beginning there, a blank page waiting the first words of a story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tense up—he hasn’t touched me since before our fight—and he releases me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a secret smile, as if she knew things nobody could ever know, and she reached out and touched my wrist and said, "Timmy, stop crying. It doesn’t matter." The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second her shoes touched the mud, she bolted to the right, ducking around the nearest PSF’s hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Just then it seemed my chamber-door was touched; as if fingers had swept the panels in groping a way along the dark gallery outside. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She watched the black unblinking men, and the drums assured her that the glow would never leave her, that it would be waiting for and with her whenever she wanted to be touched by it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby touched him on the shoulder and shook his head, opening the door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His feet almost touched the ground and they were sort of dancing around. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only my Bledsoe-trustee inspired compulsion to read all papers that touched my hands prevented me from throwing the envelope aside. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night touched him with cold fingers, and gooseprickles rose on his bare skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As she was closing the dirty white picket gate behind her, Agnes touched her arm and handed her a note. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They nodded and murmured respectful greetings to Danny, and one of them, an incredibly old man with a white beard and a bent body, reached out and touched his arm as we passed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And now at dinner, he barely touched the food on his plate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Like most Americans whose lives were not directly touched by the war, I put it behind me and went on with my life. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps. We actually had a lot of photos. Had them all touched up and hung in the old sanctuary right after we converted it to a community center.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I want to hug him, but he doesn’t want to be touched right now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha also felt a longing and the stir of sex in him; but as he had never yet touched a woman, he hesitated a moment, although his hands were ready to seize her. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched his arm lightly, and when he looked at her hand, she pulled it away. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Park couldn't imagine what his face had looked like when he touched Eleanor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She could see what they could see, and hear what they could hear, and smell and taste what they could, too, and even feel whatever their wings and feet and feather antennae touched. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But when I touched it, I realized it wasn’t wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was amazed at the vividness of her jumbled recital and touched by the virtues she attributed to himself. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers traced the numbers on the phone, touched them without pressing them. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Was that the first time the accused touched you?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And please, I don’t like being touched. Don’t ever grab me again.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The words touched me as no others could have. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wet my sponge, poured dye on it and touched up the comers of my mouth and my lips, which were always the difficult spots. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are very touched by your concern regarding Jack’s friendship with August. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Paqo leaned in so closely, his lips almost touched the edge of the jar. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She felt his intake of breath when she touched his trousers zipper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I slid closer to him until our sides touched. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His business deals seemed to have been touched by a magic wand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened, the particular marks in which they were interested had not been touched, so they made no protest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t stop them from destroying everything they touched,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was watching Longstreet’s face, gazing at him without expression, the eyes set far back under white brows, dark, touched with the cool light of the morning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Can you smell the fruit, ser? The perfume of the Arbor. Taste it, my lord, and tell me it isn't the finest, richest wine that's ever touched your tongue." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was wandering, and the world I touched turned into sand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched her with the toe of his boot, she rolled over, blinked at him, and yawned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched his brown tooth necklace. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As he put down the small creamer, his hand touched mine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I touched the cold glass with my fingers, looking off into the distance toward the empty house my parents would come home to. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Crab,” Grandpop called, getting up from his seat and inching forward, swinging his arm low until it touched the bottle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She had touched with the hand she held up to us the cool limbs of the marble boys, and those short blunt fingers had been shot through with artistic talent. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In the dimly flickering light, they saw rows of shelves, with coffins neatly placed on them, and the wood of the coffins was perfectly dry, as he found when he touched one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her hand touched the stone that the real Misses Spink and Forcible had given her the day before, the stone with the hole in it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“That there’s the master’s library. You don’t step foot in it without permission. He don’t like his things touched.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know about the baby sparrows, the storm, trying to survive, how cold it had been, how alone he had felt, or that he had seen and touched a Spirit Bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever touched him except to hit him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

That asking permission to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn’t want to be touched by somebody who didn’t ask. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And then, as she stood there, listening—a cold, clammy hand touched her throat—a wet hand, smelling of the sea.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I touched the raised face of Lady Liberty on the silver dollar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They could feel it when they touched her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The hero Menelaos’ companion in arms, Asphalion, poured water for their hands, and once again they touched the food before them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barbatos touched the shiny pendant at the end of his necklace. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took Ofelia aside and told her in confidence, but Ofelia absently touched her own milkless breasts and ran with the news to her mother. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In color the shell was deep cream, touched here and there with fading pink. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I reached a hand out but paused just before I touched her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The only feminine thing about her was the huge pair of silver earrings, which hung so low on her thin, elongated earlobes, they touched her shoulders. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He reached over and touched my cheek and for a moment I thought he might kiss me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. You’re fine. I’m not taking you anywhere. Sorry. I shouldn’t have touched you.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then she bent down and touched me as mothers of the church “lay hands on the sick and afflicted” and I quieted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet if people touched these wee little boats they’d get their hands smacked.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her gold bangles from her wedding dowry, the ones she never removed because they were her most valuable possessions, clinked against her arms when she touched me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She walked over to one of the large metal radiators and touched it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Our bare arms touched as we ate, our thighs, and it felt like heat lighting, it felt like a quick brush against the electric fence at Klauson’s Ranch, like the promise of something more. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her hand touched his feet, clutched for his ankle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to go,” she said, and Theodora looked at her again quickly and then away, and touched Eleanor’s toes softly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and went to the dresser and slid my hand along it and touched the watch and turned it face-down and went back to bed. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back and touched my hand to the dirty glass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s feet touched ground and still she wouldn’t let go, as if she didn’t trust him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He laid the broken wand upon the headmaster’s desk, touched it with the very tip of the Elder Wand, and said, “Reparo.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Tally touched her friend’s shoulder, and instead of pulling away, Shay turned back to her, her expression almost hopeful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The doors slammed, and the one constable left behind touched his helmet in salute as the car moved forward. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought of the guard who touched me and all the things I should have done—slapped him, kicked him, screamed in his face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“No. Not a ghost. She was solid. It was her. She’s dead all right, but it wasn’t any kind of a ghost. I touched her. She kissed me.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched a bit of denim. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Link touched my arm, and I turned to face him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They touched her gently, took photos, and thanked Neel and his father again and again. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knelt next to her and touched Jason’s forehead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Momma wrote the L and K of her newish name with such long lines and loops, they nearly touched my name down in the center of the envelope. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The next week he touched my hair for what might have been five or fifty minutes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did not look at them, merely touched their heads. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coil moved and faintly touched his leg. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched that boat in over one year and six months now. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bertha said good-bye, but for some reason she and the agent had never touched, not even to shake hands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped forward again—only to stop when the edge of a spear gently touched my neck. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Joseph had never touched a cow’s rump before. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I gazed at my father for a moment, touched his forehead slightly, then withdrew my hand. in my opinion,' Mrs Mortimer said, 'he's suffered a stroke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched his own forehead the skin was papery and dry. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The giant kissed his right forefinger and touched it to Lyra’s head before handing her back, very delicately, to Malcolm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

On Christmas Day 1967, Tom Kelley’s plane touched down in Vietnam, and he stepped into a wave of heat, chaos, and noise. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then she touched him with such freedom that he suffered a delusion after the initial shudder, and he felt more fear than pleasure. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Though I couldn’t feel it when he touched me, his presence stirred me up anyhow. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking out his pocket watch, he squinted to read it, then touched the bridge of his nose as if searching for something. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chinwe walked as if there were a hot object underfoot, raising each leg almost as soon as her other foot touched the floor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stroked it, murmuring, “I have not touched silk in many year.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Shephard says my idea touched a lot of hearts, and companies have reached out to Mrs. Priest because they want to donate whatever they can to make the room nice. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She made a sign in the air—a circle—and she folded her hands together and touched them to her forehead, her mouth, her heart. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I touched the end of the harpoon, and it was sharper than the old kitchen knives we had back home in Queens—not that they were being used much. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingertips nearly touched mine as I woke up. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Tristran did so; as he touched the ends of the silver chain together they knit and mended as if they had never been broken. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So he touched the pilot with the tips of his fingers, touched him on the chest and could feel nothing, no heartbeat, no rise and foil of breathing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tip of his ring finger had begun to darken too, and when he touched it with the point of his dagger, he felt nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He never once touched on the fact that Yakov had been an actual person, someone with history and dreams. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

How to clean a tool, properly, so that no trace of what had touched it remained. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This is really old,” I remarked, and gently touched the chrome-rimmed keys. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Candice had prepared dinner for them—very little of it burnt—but they barely touched their food. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sarai floated it softly into the dark valley of his shoulder blades and as soon as it touched skin, she slipped into his dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Standing close to him, she reached out a tentative finger and touched his wooden torso. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everywhere he touched seemed to glow with warmth, and cracks appeared in the bleak cold of her heart. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lupita put out her hand and touched Salvador’s arm for reassurance. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The graze of his fingers sends a ripple through me, along with the realization that I've never been touched like this before. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He touched his upper lip where she pointed, and brought his hand away smeared with bright blood. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ged shot breadcrumb arrows after the owls and brought them down, and when they touched the ground there they lay, bone and crumb, all illusion gone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We all stood around while he touched his head in wonder. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He reached out to me again but didn’t grab me, just kind of touched my shoulder, like he wasn’t sure what he was doing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When young people around here are touched by violence, it changes their whole persona. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anne was touched by this show of slavish devotion. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl reached out and touched the purple coat sleeve, first tentatively, then curiously. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Voices drifted across the water, laced now and then with laughter that rang like crystal touched in a toast. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They rambled over my growing body, they touched the plumping of my chest, the mound of my belly, and on down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the way they took the attitude they did touched her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was nearly there when somebody touched me on the arm, and I turned around. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he touched me on the shoulder again and said, “Christopher, we have to get you cleaned up, OK?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I touched my head, felt for my hat. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Joaquin froze when she touched him, but Birdie didn’t let go. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When they reached a clearing, she came up in back of him and touched him lightly on the arm. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching out for the wall to keep myself oriented, I touched an inmate’s shirt and recoiled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came toward her, and the first one set her torch down upon Elowen’s body, the flames flaring up as they touched the fur cloak that served as her shroud. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Much gratified, Jo rushed back to tell the good news, and Amy looked both touched and surprised by the report of May’s word and manner. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl went up to one of the burnt-out torches and touched its charred head. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remembered with an ache certain dishes in France and Italy touched by innumerable human hands. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care one bit about the treasure, not anymore, not who touched it, not who took it, except that I did. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She touched her fingers to her mouth, mumbling worried words as she opened the door. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It's hard to say why this was different from all the other times she'd touched him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He touched the sword tip, and Riptide shrank back into a pen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The manager, a paunchy man with sweat patches under his arms, kept flashing smiles and telling me that no one in the bank had touched the money. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched a drop since she was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘And I am still in the Shire,’ he thought, as his hand touched the chain on which it hung. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Luna kissed the lady on the cheek, as was customary, and quickly touched the mound of belly, feeling the child leap inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that my father didn’t hug me as much anymore, and that maybe I was starting to flinch whenever anyone touched me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every time he touched me, in even the most casual way, my heart had an audible reaction. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When she touched her fingers to the wound at her side, they came away wet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then considering what would happen if he absentmindedly touched his lips—then absentmindedly licked his lips—Sticky dusted them again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A sudden warmth and gladness touched his heart. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Yew's mother was partial to it, so I'd order it in for her. She passed away with a new jar barely touched.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bending, she touched Baba’s feet and then her own forehead in a pranam—the gesture of honor younger people gave elders on special occasions. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I help you? Oh Diana, I been so blind—” She touched Lyddie’s cheek lightly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For Joseph, this was the first Christmas tree he’d ever had, and when he looked at one and touched its branches and smiled —number five, sort of—it didn’t seem right to argue. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

That something magical had occurred in that summer of the world’s fair was beyond doubt, but darkness too had touched the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

With trembling, dusty fingers, he touched the kid’s limp, scrawny hand. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at Margaret's, he would smile, and sometimes even laugh, and once she touched his hand, and he let her hand rest there on top of his. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

This was something from the other side of the painting, the parts Bitter’s brushes hadn’t touched. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She touched me with one hand and I put her hand away. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her gift, which they had never even known worked in reverse, was leeching the life out of all the plants she touched. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But most of all, I scrubbed the two fingers that had touched the baby. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She stepped forward, she touched him on the shoulder. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the half-moon rose over the tops of the trees, Salvador touched Lupita’s arm and said, “Come. We go now.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He was close, but he never touched us. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

"He had planned to take your dragon's eggs, until I warned him that I'd cut off his hand if he so much as touched them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she touched my stomach she smiled and nodded. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

No other part of her was touched by this paralysis. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, a rock touched down in the water close to the raft, startling the boys. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I too reached out and touched Ruth on the shoulder. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carmen sat really close to me, and a couple of times our hands touched, which made me eat my sandwich really, really fast. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Hazel’s power to revisit the past had found the one event that connected both of their lives—where Leo’s time line touched Hazel’s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tears came, hot and bitter, flowing and flowing as if the very springs of sorrow had been touched in my body. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rit touched Ben on the arm, lightly, to attract his attention. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flickering light touched the stones underfoot and brushed against a long procession of granite pillars that marched ahead, two by two, into the dark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His hand, when he touched his pinky to his thumb, felt raw. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came up and touched my cheek, making some joke or other, and once we got in the car, she made sure the jovial mood kept going. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gasped when he touched her, and her eyes had flown wide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But he seemed to be examining the door itself, and even reached out and touched the frame with his hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As fond as he had grown of the girl, it still made him uncomfortable when she touched him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She touched him all over and kissed him everywhere. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A hint of a smile touched his lips. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like we’re going to run out. Those pines grow up like weeds, don’t you worry. Hey,” he touched her arm lightly, “you can smell the oil.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was just her empty shell over there, whereas here I could touch things she had touched, look out on the flowering plants she had looked at, and walk through her house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The ponya seed paste must have dissolved in the night, because it was gone, leaving his skin only faintly touched with its scent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I touched my bracelet to make sure I still had some protection with me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The father and son touched her forehead gently as a goodbye and went away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He touched his sword, perhaps to remind Tyrion that he wore one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s been a while since anyone touched me with anything approaching tenderness. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached over and touched the scabs on her fingers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It could be the chemicals in the cleaner used to wipe the table that I just touched. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

True, I hadn’t even touched the cop; the video footage showed it all. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Shaking off sleep, she touched her bare finger, remembering with panic that her ring was missing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I stuck my hand in my pocket and touched the tip of the feather. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shirt and pants were scorched from the electricity, and his skin was black where the wires had touched him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the crumpled nostril, traced the scar that gouged across his cheek. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This touched an interesting point Phineas had been turning over in his mind for a long time. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they touched him, he reared back like a wounded beast, and with a spurt of energy struck away their hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I want his face to look the way it did a minute ago when I touched his stomach, his chest, when he brushed my cheek with his hand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then he walked solemnly around the table, and between the dishes of food, inspecting everything with the greatest interest, though he touched nothing. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

It smells new, of paper and plastic and glue, as though it’s hardly been touched. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as though I could have lifted my other hand and touched him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched, he touched his own face. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching out with my arm, I touched him: “Wake up. One mustn’t fall asleep here . . .” He half opened his eyes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My nose was tender and smarted when I touched it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris took a huge pumpkin and a huge ear of corn and a bunch of cornstalks that touched the ceiling in the high exhibit room. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, you haven't touched my hair since, like, the third grade.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But it was lips that touched her, not the palm of a hand. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In the godswood the snow was still dissolving as it touched the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the third time they had met and touched: he had of his own will turned to the shadow, seeking to hold it with living hands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I touched my locker door and it popped open with a soft metallic click. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Chasca and Mama rushed to me, and my sister touched my arm. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He had felt the tiny, even stitches often before, because he went to it and touched it when he was missing her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Go to the airport,” she said, I touched her chest, then pointed her hand out toward the world, then pointed her hand at her chest, “I know,” she said, “Of course I know that.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After that little girl had left, I touched the metal head too. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The way I heard it was in the old days long time ago they had this Scalp Society for warriors who killed or touched dead enemies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Van Helsing’s face grew set as marble, and his eyebrows converged till they almost touched over his nose. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They passed through the lane; but hardly had Frodo touched the ground when with a deep rumble there rolled down a fall of stones and slithering snow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she touched it to the wick of another candle. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Feeling was shifting inside me, and being touched while it was happening made it harder to interpret; interrupted its development somehow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she touched my cheek with her open hand we got the shock of static she built up from the carpet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Englishman touched him exploratorily here and there, filled with pity. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell touched a still gleaming metal surface gingerly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

To stop him, I put my hand down there, and when I touched it, I knew what it was, even though I had never touched one before. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the man finished the number, he reached out and touched the collar of her dress, smoothing it down gently. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan, stealing glances at his father, touched his fingers to the glossy butt of the gun, liking its burly satin finish. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like herself again as soon as he touched her, and it was horrible. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dasch possessed good manners and spoke eloquently, seemingly unaware that he often touched his nose or forehead with his index finger when he talked. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Thomas was touched—he bet that if it really came down to it, Chuck would go out there if he were asked to. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Now it fell away when he touched it with his foot, and became nothing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he went over to the bed where his wife lay sleeping and with infinite tenderness touched her forehead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very last time I had seen her, she actually touched me; she rubbed her hand through my hair, she called me Ryan Dean, and she said she hoped I’d feel better. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They laugh to one another and seem touched underneath their helmets with a beneficent gold. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was touched with purple now, and the snow shone brightly against the dark background. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Where the iron touched his skin it felt like knives and needles and nails, like the searing pain of frost, like the sting of a hundred biting flies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I felt around the bottom of the bag and touched some keys on a ring, resting in a pile of dirt, or maybe crushed leaves. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He touched it, just to be sure it was real. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not forget that only the week before I had been touched by her childish griefs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tips of her breasts touched his coat, burning in like acid and closing his throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He touched her like the two of them were lucky to be touching each other; like he knew she didn’t very often let anyone touch her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fabric is raspy against my skin, so unaccustomed lately to being touched. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her mother smiled and touched Omakayas’s hair gently and shook her head. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His hand, like the powerful and barely restrained paw of a cougar, touched her belly, her breasts, her throat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung the censer so high it nearly touched the tip of my nose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She touched my forehead and the terrible strain I felt seemed lifted from my shoulders. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers touched my lips lightly, making me shiver again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly— our painful souvenir from holding Adas’s burden. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as the doctor touched his abdomen, Bobby flinched in pain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I have touched it. I have spoken to it, and heard it speak. It does me no harm.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it was Mrs. Harker’s presence which had touched some chord in his memory. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She touched his eyebrow where the line of white cut through it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Neither of us had ever touched a surfboard. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched her fingers to her eyebrow, like I was a mirror or something. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They hardly touched one another in the family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve wondered how it would be to hold her and dance with her, when I’ve never even so much as touched her hand before, at the fountain. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mercenary reached up and curiously touched the handle of the knife lodged in his own neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He touched the money in his jacket pocket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around the room and touched everything to reassure myself that it was real and not some demonic illusion. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay sighed and touched the set of paints. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pong shook his head and touched his string bracelets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There was anger in his voice, and he touched her chin where the scar ended. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Blue Eyes touched each of his eyes significantly with her blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When one of her fingers touched me, I bit it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Had my play, like Hamlet’s that touched on the king’s murder, been a dangerous folly? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His head almost touched his chest as he nodded and cried. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If I touched a hunchback’s hump, then I would never be sick. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When was the last time they had touched the earth? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her foot touched one and she saw this and pulled her foot away. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flared behind him; he touched his cap. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were looked after by the older brother, who must have been warned to restrain himself, for he never touched us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farder Coram touched the spray of pine as if for luck, and on his face was an expression Lyra had never seen before: almost a longing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned in, touched my scarred cheek to the stone, and looked up at its pointed tip. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She seemed to get a little less transparent as she touched the cookies, and Ophie nodded and went back to washing her windows. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He felt her brow, made her undress, and touched her all over while her bedmaid held her down. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I felt around the bottom of the bag and touched some keys on a ring, resting in a pile of dirt, or maybe crushed leaves. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then I saw this turtle swimming to the top and his beak was eating my tears as soon as they touched the water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t touched the snowflake necklace I used to borrow all the time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The moment she touched him, Ekon hissed in pain, but she used her other hand to hold him steady. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He touched the ndoro and imagined the Mellower standing in his place. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But no one touched her; no one spoke. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her head felt lumpy when she touched it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her hand appeared atop her head, mashing down the curls, moving forward until it touched the tip of my nose. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I’m touched by the gesture and accept it gratefully. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The only place in Mount Pitts that hadn’t been touched by her was now hers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I reached out and touched his arm again. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Emilia reached out and touched the German’s knee. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A label below the symbol said: Virus VC321xb47 Highly Contagious 24 Darts, Extreme Caution Mark suddenly wished he hadn’t touched the thing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She patted his shoulder and then touched his cheek. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of bugs swarmed around my face every time I touched a withered plant. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One paten touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I saw it when I touched…” There was no use trying to hide the truth now. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The goddess was touched by those prayers for one who had long been dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was over a year since he had carried charcoal or a bucket of water, touched a broom or helped Mrs. Lapham brew ale. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched it, he and his mother and Taisin shone for an instant as long as one blink—and then Taisin was clutching at the child’s fists, which were firmly clasped around the medallion. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And when I got into the car, I still had the glow of that feeling and 1 touched his hand and said, “Harold, I love you.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached across his table and touched his hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stood waiting at the private terminal as Barack’s plane touched down. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“He was right next to me. I could’ve sworn he wanted something. He even touched me!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, I felt the weight of an ear pendant on my right ear even before I reached up and touched it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Did she see the ceiling when the black American touched her? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It was yellow. When it touched the horizon, it turned the sky beautiful colors.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually, he touched me, and I was cut. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She touched on silver lunch trucks and designer labels and enchanted places, and when she said her best friend gave her pet rat a ride on his shoulder, tears came to my eyes. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Hermione looked down at her hardly touched plate of food, then put her knife and fork down upon it and pushed it away from her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Our fingers touched a couple of times, and when they did, I said, ‘Sorry,’ and she just smiled shyly. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peris reached up and touched her cheek, which smarted under his fingertips. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I touched his face to bring him back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the book, his voice trailing away. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bowing, Neel touched Headmaster’s feet and then his own forehead in a pranam of respect. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The building wasn’t very tall, and Tally would bounce in her jacket if she fell, but the moment her feet touched the ground, the wire would sound an alarm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Yet he suspected there was something nobody had yet touched upon in this thing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part of me that does not know me, has never touched me or lingered at my side. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers touched the cold, unresponsive metal face and he shuddered. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He came over to me, touched me tentatively as though he wasn’t sure I was real. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though everyone’s heart were touched a little by the coming cold, as though a shadow of the windigo swept across their minds. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He touched his head impressively and I nodded. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I touched the white phone in the living room, hoping it would ring. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She said she had never touched a black person. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched the dog’s head, stroking him gently. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the raised scar and decided that honesty was my only course. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he touched her, he didn't seem to care about any of those things. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There are whispers that without Lucera, the murals that are touched with shadowshaper magic will eventually fade and the connection to the spirits will be obliterated. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My leotard barely stretched over my protruding belly and my thighs touched no matter how hard I begged them not to. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Coming out of Kate’s he had touched his sobbing brother and Aron had cut him down with a fist like a whip. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At last, their feet touched bottom, and they were half swimming, half crawling to shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Out in the corridor, the guard touched Jelly's shoulder. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers reached up to her bare pink scalp and touched it, exploring it tentatively. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Plainly she was possessed of some fierce evil that would enter these men if they touched her, or me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped they weren’t so much as touched, he hoped nothing happened, nothing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It touched the skin like sinners touch the Bible, screeching again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pushing aside the desire to giggle about being touched by Javier, Moss gulped and answered him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thalia cried a warning, but before I could react, Prometheus’s index finger touched my forehead. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even though she would never have put the cookie in her mouth now that he had touched it, she added, “You can’t just steal other people’s stuff!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She touched his face and then put her hand over her heart. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Those we love live in our hearts forever! We always have them”—she touched my heart—“right here. Always.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Often he chafed his master’s hands and feet, and touched his brow, but all were cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I groped into the dark room and fumbled for the bed; I had the illusion that if I touched it I would encounter the dead boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

New wooden fortifications topped the old stone walls on the outskirts of town, and watchtowers had been built along the shore, but the war had not touched Oxscini’s forested lands yet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When our cheeks touched, and I breathed in his smell of tobacco, Vitalis, and whiskey, I realized he’d shaved for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had imaginary conversations with Anulika all the time, and, right after he touched himself at night, Nnesinachi would appear briefly with a mysterious smile on her face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to reach out his hand and touch her sunburned, tousled hair—not as he had ever touched a woman. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Except for an occasional “attaboy” shoulder shake from his father or a casual arm punch from one of his friends, no one had touched him since his mother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The scent touched him deep behind his belly, and he could feel the old anticipation stirring as it had when he was a child waiting for the first snowflakes to fall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra’s feet barely touched the steps as she raced down them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Pima shuddered in Tool’s grip, but she didn’t flinch as Richard touched her cheek with his blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As her mama tears touched their black fur, the cubs shriveled and shrank. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When I touched it, it stuck to me; when I manhandled it, it turned leathery. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Ivy turned to go, but Robin touched her shoulder, too gently for Ivy to ignore. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The moment my feet touched the floor, I checked under my mattress where I’d tucked my mother’s things—just a temporary hiding place till I could bury them back in the orchard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to Johnny, stretched out a hand, and touched the widow’s peak—all that he had ever got from the beautiful Vinny Lyte. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were airborne less than a half minute after the chopper had touched down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pointer touched zero, he closed the bomb bay doors and, over the intercom, at the very top of his voice, shrieked: “Turn right hard!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Master picked up the paper and folded it, so that one edge touched the other, leaving a hollow between. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some folks say Mrs. Brown’s touched in the head, but ’cept for scaring me in the woods at night she treats me real kind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I reached up and touched my face where I got punched. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But then for a little while, it seemed like everything I touched turned to compost. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them touched the client on the shoulder. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched his hand to a sore spot on his forehead, his fingers turned gooey with blood, and he understood. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She touched Maybeth softly on the left shoulder, to let her know she wasn’t angry. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere they touched, layer upon layer of new ice formed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It was not corporeal, to be touched like you or me,” he said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun touched the wall, he was in its grasp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When it was but a jewel in the sea, she touched her seat and her armrest and stared down at herself. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

JT held my gaze for a long time, then went over to his mother and touched her arm. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand went up involuntarily and touched the little rhinestone spout. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time he touched his sword, as if to make certain that it still hung at his side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After I had the piano tuned, I opened the lid and touched the keys. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back and milked out her strutted bag and she didn’t offer to kick me one time, just flinched and drew up a little when I first touched her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to think about everything she touched. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe I was touching these things that the great man had also touched. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When it touched the ground, it instantly made for the tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded and touched his forehead in case he couldn’t see me nodding. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I touched Gran’s collection of fabrics, the shiny bright buttons, the colored threads. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He touched her cheek and then turned to go to the carriage. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put out an awkward hand then and touched Winnie’s hair. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jules touched it with the tip of her finger, absorbing the sound into her skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the person touched a crushed insect, or perhaps he or she was bitten by a spider. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was warm inside, and he was warm inside, and they touched hands, and Madeleine laughed, and she began to hum. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He gently touched Ben on the head, as if delivering some sort of benediction. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I told Maya I thought that was really dumb and she agreed, but she still wouldn’t touch a ball that August just touched, not if she could help it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Remembering the turquoise necklace, Nathan reached into his pocket and touched it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I like to imagine the new family was so touched by my poignant words that they decided not to paint over them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I secretly wanted to play, ’cause it’d been a grip since I even touched a ball. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Soon the whole stove was covered with hot flames that licked and devoured everything they touched. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I licked my fingers and touched them to the greased frying pan heating up on the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her foot shot way out to the side as soon as it touched the puddle. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The first thing I touched would show me the way. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some people touched the hot pipe if you called them chicken as well. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Raymie put out her hand and touched the top of his head. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Each time her foot touched the ground became a fresh opportunity to lose her balance and tumble forward. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It disintegrated into dust before ever it touched the shining god. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Something about the way he touched her shoulder caught me off guard. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor touched his cheek and found that welts had formed where the webs had ripped off. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waited a moment, and then he touched his cap and went off trundling his barrow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And as she looked at an itemized bill for plumbing her left hand strayed to her neck and touched the chain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand through his hair, but it just flopped back into place like he had never touched it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They were sitting on it, but she hadn’t yet officially touched it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He touched it here and touched it there, gently, daintily. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the first time she’d touched either one of them. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands touched the swell beneath her breasts protectively as a roar went up from the Dothraki. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of all, my white skin craves to be touched and held by the one man on earth I know has forgiven me for it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Phil noticed I had not touched most of my food, I apologized. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His hand touched a red artery, and a tingling sensation went up his arm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then she reached toward me with her deformed stumps and touched my face and at that moment I yelped out loud and dropped over dead. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She touched one with a bare foot, as if the plait were some sort of unknown animal. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t touched a box since his freshman days. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips smiled faintly and she lifted her hand and touched his face with her fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Ah, Robert," he mur-mured as his groping hand touched a cold stone wall, his leg throbbing with every motion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He tried to eat the bits of rice that hadn’t touched the stew, but there were only six or seven of those. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But it touched her that he had found his way to serve the underground after all—taking care of its womenfolk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the three girls started to talk about their feelings about being touched, things suddenly got serious. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was touched that Ted was so upset. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed my finger and touched it to her perfect lips and I knew that we would never be safe. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Aragorn laid his hand on Merry’s head, and passing his hand gently through the brown curls, he touched the eyelids, and called him by name. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

No one knew what would happen if their very hot exhaust gases touched my suit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alaric touched his half-melted name tag, and Seven knew for sure he had died that night. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She loved the way Claire’s hand felt in hers, how her skin could sometimes feel like the softest, most electric thing that Maya had ever touched. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She sat on a corner of the bed beside him, reached out, and gingerly touched his shoulder. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The sun sank beneath the horizon as we landed, and as I touched the shore I felt those cares and fears revive which soon were to clasp me and cling to me for ever. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s touched the hand of every kid who walked into the room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even eats the squash, and then he licks my hands and fingers to get all the salt off, anyplace I’d touched a piece of chicken. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook hands with each detective but paused and raised his eyebrows when he touched Arm. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tm late ” He kissed his wife on the cheek and then touched Benji's shoulder briefly before leaving. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at her not believing, not wanting to believe...I touched her and her flesh was cold and hard. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was so tall that his nose nearly touched the edge of the loft. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the Devil’s Shoestrings bracelet on my wrist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had not been allowed to tend it properly penned up in this cell, but even unwashed and tangled it shone where the sun touched it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In about an hour I went back for the tray and he hadn’t touched a crumb. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched my cheek, and my heart rose. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She seldom touched him, and the warmth of her small hand sent darts of steel through his blood. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“That one looks like it really hurts,” she said and touched a fingertip to the huge purple bruise on my back. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

This moment was safe though, this could not be touched. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was 2:56 when the shovel touched the coffin. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had never touched my face so much. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He touched his own skin and thought of its decay. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tally touched the peeling skin on her nose. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He did not wait for Lord Bracken to reply but touched Honor lightly with his golden spurs and trotted off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had never touched anything made by the Xi before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The air of disuse that touched everything about the room—and the entire Station—was infinitely depressing. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

For comfort I touched my chest where Mother’s necklace was concealed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought that he ought to be grateful that he was allowed on the factory premises at all, and allowed to touch things that Touchables touched. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas reached across the table and touched my arm, she said, “I’m sure it didn’t, Bud, I’m sure it was very peaceful for her.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Billy touched gloves and went back to his corner. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face, as young and brown and pretty as any Mack had ever seen, that face looking into his touched him again with its soft boldness and the eyes that searched his so intently. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the butterfly like he always had. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the tiny barred window of their cell the women could see them, so close that if they had been able to reach out they could have touched them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You touched it. I can smell it on you.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Until she touched my arm I thought that she was talking to herself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving at the train station back in 1906, the smiles they both smiled at the women with little children, strung like beads over suitcases, were touched with pity. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier closed two of his jacket buttons and touched his thin mustache as if to straighten it, an imitation of the gesture Jonathan had seen the old soldier make many times. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the quilt on the bed, traced with my fingers the monogram on the nightdress case, R de W, interwoven and interlaced. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. My nostalgia is so extreme that I am capable of missing a swing my butt never actually touched.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I freaked out when my boyfriend touched me, but—“Nope. Nothing.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Her gnarled hands touched the raised pink flesh and followed the map of it with one finger. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I would have done if he had touched me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even though she felt hot, when she touched her face it felt clammy and damp. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari touched Mrs. Derby’s bulging belly and declared, “Baby come quick—very soon.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched a lampshade and said, “I’m the 467th-richest person in the world.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Filming began the moment Bobby touched down in Copenhagen, with a camera in the sports vehicle that drove him, Miyoko, and Saemi to Sweden, en route to Iceland. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing under an apricot tree, partially hidden by a bushy canopy of gnarled limbs sweeping so close to the earth the slender leaves touched the ground in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He went up to him and touched him, and the whole body swayed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had breathed it before, touched it surely, that very afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She barely touched the ladder going down, landed squarely on the tiny bit of space left for her at the front of Missy’s saddle. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was a rare compliment in a world of very few such words of praise, so it balanced being touched by the dry fingers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last the tips of his toes touched mud, he forced his limbs to make swimming motions one last time. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard Crouch’s confession, and I heard Harry’s account of what happened after he touched the Triwizard Cup; the two stories make sense, they explain everything that has happened since Bertha Jorkins disappeared last summer.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The queen touched his hand where her ring still blazed on his finger. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel came up and touched me on the shoulder. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad touched the mattress with his cane. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even so, he knelt beside her, pulled down the furs, touched her cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then Kino raised his hand and touched Juana’s cheek, and she held her breath. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she touched his cheek and he fell down in an enchanted sleep and did not awaken until his neighbor discovered him. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded bitter and weary: his forlorn spirit touched mine, and a great emptiness seemed to unfold in me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head nearly touched the ceiling, but not quite. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So she lay there until gentle hands touched her shoulder. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He touched the sleeping star on her shoulder. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bo reached out has hand and touched a small tin drummer on Barbarossa's desk. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my foot touched the stage the room hushed to a murmur. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He touched the corner of my eye, trapping one I missed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched me softly on the face with her rough hands. she said before she took her leave. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched her face, she screamed again. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the white flower behind her ear, the one from her uncle, and wrapped me in a tight hug. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He reached out and touched his fingers to the cave wall, and then leaned back again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maia turned then, and with her hand lightly touched the cheeks of Jane and Michael. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I touched some iodine to my scraped leg. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t touched yet, but now he put out a hand to her, and she moved her cat face against his fingers and then stepped delicately onto his lap. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Until she moved her hand under my pants, and she touched me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the door, he touched his toes ten times before throwing it open and striding smack into Aunt Pearl. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stepped closer to me and touched my hand. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rohin leaned over the sketch pad, so that his tiny chest and shoulders almost touched it, his head tilted to one side. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You are beautiful, too, Frightful,” I said, and I touched the slate gray feathers of her back. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” he whispered, and touched her breasts and buried his face in her neck. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The word left my mouth in a thin breath that barely touched my lips, because I couldn’t believe he was really there. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She touched the women on the head, straightened collars, tucked blankets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bucked against the sudden cold that touched his skin as the first shadows of the trees reached him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A kind, good-hearted person might be touched that people are being so empathetic to the personal weather condition of others, but the more I hear it, the more I fume. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Even in such a voice, the verses touched me: “I am the words, thou the melody; I the seed, thou the bearer; the heaven I, the earth thou.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was very deeply touched by the gesture. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was how I felt toward the whole city: that it should be behind glass, adored from a distance, never touched, never altered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he bent his head down and touched his cold lips softly to the hollow at the base of my throat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Do you think I minded when she touched my hand? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The night of the Black Moon Ceremony, my baby brother touched the hat,” Seven said in a daze. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the pod and touched it delicately with those powerful, flexible trunks, and she found herself interpreting the soft chirrups and clicks and hoots they were making as expressions of disapproval. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whatever creatures were living in the barn were probably more frightened of her than she would ever be of them, even if they panicked and touched her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This priest’s frankness had touched me more than a decree. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you know that when I touched their sturdy little tits and bit them—just a little—I felt I was being friendly? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in Mrs. van D.’s mouth and found two teeth that made her wince with pain and utter incoherent cries every time he touched them. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, touched his ears to make Ruza understand, and his fingers came away wet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had her hands on her knees and I touched my fingers to her knuckles, tracing the peaks and valleys, staring at her skin. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have touched your things.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Laughing and breathless, she touched the tree just seconds before Jojo did, her lunch bucket clunking against the trunk. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“A totem. Trinket. Something your father may have touched?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She held out her gloved hand, and I touched my lips to it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to have to think about anything that had happened since he had first touched the Triwizard Cup. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I touched her she burst into tears and ran out of the monkey house. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The door opened and four policemen came and stood above him; one touched his shoulder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when I found myself strolling past the boiler hut about half an hour later, I saw the magazines hadn’t been touched. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had no intention . He touched his hat—the aluminum stove-pipe hat in which he carried his wireless receiver and transmitter. “Excuse my not taking it off,” he said. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were soft and warm on her then, his hand touched her cheek. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair fell from beneath his helm in a heavy braid touched with hoarfrost, and the blacks he wore were so faded they might have been greys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Right away, as if I’d been touched with a magic wand, I felt like a queen. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as he touched the ball with both hands I get up in his face. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally—in fact, better make that often—her old-fashioned ways touched him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched her hair again, smoothed her dress, opened and shut her mouth, grimacing with the effort of finding the right words. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Seven flinched when Valley’s shoulder touched hers, but she was too cold and too scared to pull away. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Charles’ hands itched into his pockets and out and touched his chin and scratched his head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wiped her hands on her apron and touched his hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman was dismounting from his horse, and his boots touched down in snow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They hugged one another at each hello or good-bye, but since they knew I didn’t like to be touched, they avoided me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I did not know what, besides love and death, lay between him and that brother, but I knew that whenever I bespoke him something in him winced away as if I touched a wound. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed Gertrude was so grand and beautiful that I was afraid to look at her, even when she touched my curls and asked my name. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He shoved everybody back, said anybody who touched me would have to deal with him. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He touched the match to a candle, and the light grew steadier. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And, also like yesterday, he touched my face wordlessly — this time with the back of his cool hand, stroking once from my temple to my jaw — before he turned and walked away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The father of the missing girl touched his chest and looked past the camera. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tom touched his cap, a thing he rarely did, and moved off thoughtfully. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I touched me cap, like this here.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I’d spent an afternoon with Nicole, had seen her up close, helped her out of that puddle on the side of the road, touched her, I felt involved. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As the night air touched her face, Ma thought of Minli, bit her lip, and sighed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I touched his fancy watch that he never wore and the extra laces for his sneakers that would never run around the reservoir again. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The moment it touched the eloko, the creature’s skin began to sizzle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, she touched my arm one more time, then she went back to her seat and her friends. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Triptolemus touched his throat, as if making sure it was still there. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After the first time he touched her, Deborah swore she’d never wear another pair of jeans with snaps instead of zippers again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jason touched down on the deck of the Argo II. Thankfully, Leo had done his part. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I touched his arm again and he drew away. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Shake hands in confirmation of the word. What cold fingers! They were warmer last night when I touched them at the door of the mysterious chamber. Jane, when will you watch with me again?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was so touched that Caitlin would send me something so special, and I wanted to return the favor—but wasn’t sure how. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had never cared much for scenery, yet the scene outside touched something within him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I touched the spot on my lip where I’d bitten myself. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He touched his face where I smacked him but he still didn’t do anything back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Once gently it touched him over the heart, once on the lips, while Nemmerle whispered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel a slight tremor in the boy’s hand when they touched. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She lifted her bandaged arm and touched the side of her head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Curt touched Ifemelu’s shoulder gently, asked if she was okay, before going back outside. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bobbette stormed over to Galen and Ethel’s house, and burst in their front door screaming that if either of them touched one of those Lacks children again, she’d kill them herself. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At eight-thirty the next morning, a police helicopter touched down noisily beside the bus in a blizzard of dust and swirling aspen leaves. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she lifted her head and touched the letter again, gently stroking the page with her palm, as if she was trying to draw the words into herself. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She touched them with her own, and fingered his lapel, and then gripped it and shook it gently. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It reached my hands, wet and slippery, it touched my neck, my chin, my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Last time I touched Tin Man, his hand fell off,” I reminded him gently. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Aurelia, greatly daring, crept forward and touched the golden fur with one finger. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She looked up from time to time and touched the spyglass in her pocket, but she couldn’t use it till they’d stopped moving. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I touched my feet to it, a terrible, prickling feeling came over my skin, my muscles cramped, my eyes blurred and I got instantly dizzy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He touched his fingertips to the brim of his cap. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put up a hand and touched it, but it stayed in position. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I was seventeen, in a red jeep, and a boy I loved had just touched my hand. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I touched her shoulder she stiffened and trembled, but I pulled her toward me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He says, Grand, grand, and goes to the shed to wash himself though when he comes back you’d never know he touched himself with water at all he’s that black. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just as my hand closed on a root I thought my feet touched bottom, but I wasn’t sure. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Full, from side to side, all the way back until it touched the ceiling. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He sprinkled the pages with cider to make them more inflammable, touched a match to them, and a little jet of flame curled upward. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben then lifted his glass and touched it against his godfather’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not used to being touched, except by Peeta or my family, and I rank Gamemakers somewhere below maggots in terms of creatures I want in contact with my skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day he touched the Spirit Bear he had been near death and had completely given up trying to be in control. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Against the tangerine blush of the afternoon sun, it looked like the apocalypse had already touched down in Virginia. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He touched his finger to the windshield—the paint was dry. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Ridgeway that his father had been touched that he came in person to apologize for his incompetence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But the pairs which he had touched instantly left their own kinds and followed him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I touched my own fingers to them, quickly, held on. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a strange man touched me I would hit him, and I can hit people very hard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bod put a hand into the empty trunk, touched the silk lining, touched dried earth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He touched their hands and eyes and hearts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A stream went through the centre of the town and fields of grapes touched the houses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“First Turkey has a connection to the Third World that no one else has. Her feathers were touched by my mother’s water.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The boy put some light yellow fluid on the towel and touched it gently to her cheek. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched Sansa's hair, brushing it lightly away from her neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I touched my nose and this gigantic finger touched the nose on the screen. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This newsstand has been touched by the Golden Finger of Fortune! They’ll probably make a national park out of it.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see myself in comparison to every other girl he’s likely touched. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Just as I touched it, Faro, his nose in the entrance, whined, and at the combination of the noise and the touch, he opened his eyes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z