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Definition of Touchstones
1. touchstone [n] - See also: touchstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touchstones
Literary usage of Touchstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities ... in the Museum of the Royal by Royal Irish Academy Museum, William Robert Wilde (1857)
"touchstones.—In all countries where the use of gold was known, touchstones for
testing the purity of that metal were employed by the workers thereof; ..."
2. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"... other higher Clergy of the country, the conversation turned often upon Luther
and Erasmus, and other points which were the touchstones of men's minds. ..."
3. Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log by Richard Le Gallienne (1896)
"... them in Matthew Arnold's judicious fashion, he keeps by him great touchstones.
All is more or less good, but some is best. THE poetic drama, as a form, ..."
4. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish by William Robert Wilde (1863)
"touchstones.—In all countries where the use of gold was known, touchstones for
testing the purity of that metal were employed by the workers thereof; ..."
5. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Stone, Earthen, and Vegetable by William Robert Wilde (1861)
"touchstones.—In all countries where the use of gold was known, touchstones for
testing the purity of that metal were employed by the workers thereof; ..."
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