Tongue-tied by inexperience and by excess of ardor, wooing unwittingly and awkwardly, Martin continued his approach by
contact. The touch of his hand was pleasant to her, and something deliciously more than pleasant.
As I now recall the scene of my first year, I do not believe that one often has the opportunity of coming into
contact with three or four hundred men and women who were so tremendously in earnest as these men and women were.
The advantage of living abroad is that, coming in
contact with the manners and customs of the people among whom you live, you observe them from the outside and see that they have not the necessity which those who practise them believe.
Now this particular lion had never before come in
contact with Tarzan of the Apes and he was much mystified.
Here the short stakes were set at intervals of about a foot around the walls near the top, their sharpened points inclining downward so that the lion had fallen unhurt into the trap but could not leap out because each time he essayed it his head came in
contact with the sharp end of a stake above him.
Bradley had noted something of the obvious indications of a gradual evolution from ape to spearman as exemplified by the several overlapping races of Alalus, club-men and hatchet-men that formed the connecting links between the two extremes with which he, had come in
contact. He had heard of the Krolus and the Galus--reputed to be still higher in the plane of evolution--and now he had indisputable evidence of a race possessing refinements of civilization eons in advance of the spear-men.
And at these words, as if all her strength was exhausted, Milady sank, weak and languishing, into the arms of the young officer, who, intoxicated with love, anger, and voluptuous sensations hitherto unknown, received her with transport, pressed her against his heart, all trembling at the breath from that charming mouth, bewildered by the
contact with that palpitating bosom.
He drew back his lips and whistled through his teeth when his fingers came in
contact with the splashed blood and the rare wound.
In Tita at any rate a grateful susceptibility to human
contact had not died out, and
contact of a limited order there would be if I should come to live in the house.
He was obliged to advance with outstretched hands to avoid
contact with the boughs, and discovered that to hit the exact spot from which he had started was at first entirely beyond him.
Even in Steele himself we may observe with what sureness of instinct the men of that age turned aside at the
contact of anything likely to make them, in any sense, forget themselves.
The Binu man traced out the mechanics of the trap, and exposed the hidden fibre in the tangled undergrowth that at
contact with Koogoo's foot had released the taut bow.