Pristine

Usage examples of untouched.

His heart still bore the burthen of its sorrow, and he felt more sure of the sympathy of the afflicted mourner, than of one who looked untouched by any adversity.

Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, who hath vouchsafed to choose you to an espousalship like that of the blessed Mary, mother of our Lord, Jesus Christ - ad beatae Mariae matris Domini nostri Jesus Christ consortium - hallow you, that in the presence of God and of His angels, you may persevere, untouched and undefiled, and hold to your purpose, love, chastity, and keep patience that you may merit to receive the crown of His blessing, through the same Christ our Lord.

The barbarians had overgrazed the few fields the peasants had left untouched, turning them into bleak patches of ground.

His patrimonial acres and heirlooms remain indeed untouched, because the court of chancery have deemed it necessary to appoint a receiver to secure their faithful transmission to the next heir.

Lord Saltwood, realizing that he had hit the finest pistol-shot in town and was himself untouched, was for a moment in danger of collapsing in a swoon.

His name was Piston, and he, like the building and the ancient press and the untouched libraries upstairs and down, came with the deal.

On the table, in the middle of the room, the samovar was boiling and there stood a full but untouched and forgotten glass of tea.

Which done, she sayd these words of course as follow : Behold, his nose is whole, his eyes safe, his eares without scarre, his lips untouched, and his chin sound : all which was written and noted in tables, and subscribed with the hands of witnesses to confirme the same.

Gwendolyn was aware by that time that the DeMont fortune had in truth become the Spanning fortune, with, as I say, only the lands themselves untouched.

Even the most devout priest can get enough of talk about religion, especially when it is untouched by theological stringency, or mystical insight.

They only went suborbital, and their ammonia tanks were frequently untouched on landing.

Guild adamantly maintained should stay sacrosanct, untouched by human influence, uncontaminated by human presence.

How SUMMER 1995773 could we have raised up these despairing children, dispossessed, who felt from their first moments there was no place on earth for them, who were untouched, unsaved by any tradition of human nobility?

It is far better, when there is no question of stability but only of appearance, to leave the old stonework, even though much decayed, as it is, unscraped, untouched by the chisel, and where strength is needed to put in frankly nineteenth-century work, which could never by any possibility be mistaken for part of the original building.

Tam had brought in still stood by the fireplace, miraculously unspilled and untouched.