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Definition of Light touch
1. Noun. Momentary contact.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light Touch
Literary usage of Light touch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"On the back of the hand the ulnar limit for light touch and heat at 152° F.
roughly corresponded to the extensor tendon of the ring finger. ..."
2. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"... THE light touch 1 HE essence of priggishness, Samuel Butler remarks, is setting
up to be better than one's neighbor. For persons like ourselves, ..."
3. A General Dictionary of Painters: Containing Memoirs of the Lives and Works by Matthew Pilkington (1829)
"He had a light touch, a natural tone of colouring, great variety in the scenes
of his landscapes, and possessed a perfect knowledge of the chiaro- oscuro. ..."
4. The Witness of Hermas to the Four Gospels by Charles Taylor (1892)
"This well illustrates the light touch with which the author of the Shepherd
handles his materials. As he deals with the Epistle of S. James and with the Old ..."
5. A Manual of Physiology with Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1910)
"He should understand by preliminary practice what the sensation of light touch
is, the perception of which he is to indicate. ..."
6. Paestum: & Other Poems by Alexander Blair Thaw (1909)
"BY some light touch it was of your Strong, tender hands, and the strange lure In
those deep eyes, and by the sound Of your sweet voice, that I was bound As ..."
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