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All the touchingness of the past was in their waiting on his words.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

It seemed to him that all the purity, and the beauty, and the whimsical unselfconsciousness, and the touchingness of youth that is divine, appeared in that little, almost comic action of the girl.

From A Spirit in Prison by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Her regrets at the necessity of their leaving Temple Barholm were expressed with fluent touchingness at the dinner-table.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Hapless young creatures in her plight must always be touching, but her touchingness was indescribable—almost unendurable to the ripe aged woman of the world who watched and heard her.

From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

But all the little odious details of the scene escaped him; he felt only the touchingness of his human comradeship, the yearning of a common life, bruised and wounded but still alive within him.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.