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n. (plural of touchstone English)
Usage examples of "touchstones".
It was usually piled with history, Craft, and reference books Geoffrey had pulled from the stacks—books the two men had searched for touchstones to understand Jaenelle's casual but stunning remarks and her sometimes quirky but awesome abilities.
He hadn't realized that his predictability was one of Tersa's touchstones, a means by which she separated the days.
They’d learned from some Touchstones the secret of how to live off vital auras.
The overcoming of morality, in a certain sense even the self-overcoming of morality - let this be the name for that long secret work which has been saved up for the finest and most honest, also the most malicious, consciences of today, as living touchstones of the soul.
Shamsu'd-Din Muhammad ibn Qais ar-Razi, Al-Mu'jam ft ma'ayir ash'ar al-Ajam ('Enlightening Book on the Touchstones of Persian Poetry'), Leyden and London, 1909, pp.
But more importantly, he writes with great heart and has that enviable ability of delineating universal touchstones through the spill of common events that make up the lives of his characters.