"Untouched" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that he had drifted into the absolutely ideal life. He lived entirely in the present. The passage of time left him untouched. Day followed day, week followed week, and nothing seemed to change. He was never unhappy, never ill, ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... children, a cook, and maybe a housemaid to manage for him, and so forth. Winny wouldn't have come into it. It would never have occurred to her to run the risks she had run for him. There would have been no need. She would have remained, serene, beautiful in sympathy, outside his calamity, untouched by its sordidness, its taint. All the machinery of his household would have gone on in spite of it, without any hitch or dislocation, working all the more smoothly in the absence ...
— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair
... The hog, with stuttering speech, returns:— "Explain, sir, why your anger burns; See there, untouched, your tulips strown, For ...
— Parker's Second Reader • Richard G. Parker
... called the roll of the three vessels of his squadron, and found that he had lost no fewer than one hundred and eighty men, killed and wounded, in the engagement. As for the ships, the Tiger was untouched, and the flag-ship practically intact, but the Elizabeth had been somewhat severely mauled. Captain Cavendish's first instructions were that the vessels should at once proceed to execute such repairs as were necessary, in order that they should not be at a disadvantage ...
— Across the Spanish Main - A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... Still there remained untouched two mighty pillars of Protestantism that Gardiner and Wriothesley had to overthrow. These were ...
— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach
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