I have painful memories that lie buried and untouched most of the time. It is never easy when they surface. |
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Even the red velvet cushions on each chair look untouched, brushed by the servants so that the nap is all in the same direction. |
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As far as I could see, a dark green sea of untouched forest rolled out to the whole encircling horizon. |
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Of one thing we may be sure, that the memory of his pure and noble life, untouched by worldliness, unsoured by fanaticism, will endure. |
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Amish culture is often promoted as a return to the untouched, unspoiled landscape of the past. |
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I simply snavvled the only bedroom in the house that is completely untouched by direct sunlight, at any hour of the day. |
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His voice remains clarion-ragged, unsullied, and untouched by trends or whims. |
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It may be disused fitness equipment, untouched kitchen gadgets or scores of unwanted CDs and books. |
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The senior staff bolted from their chairs, leaving the waiters to clear the table of plate after plate of untouched food. |
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A plate of wilted fruit and a glass of untouched water lay on a night stand beside my bed. |
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She only recently began sorting through her late husband's belongings, which have been left untouched at their home in Hertfordshire. |
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Unaware of their limited rights as employees at will, they apparently thought they could spit in the eye of a behemoth and escape untouched. |
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A young waiter walked nervously to her table and motioned to her untouched plate. |
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The casting had gone perfectly and the virgin silver, until now untouched by corroding air or water, gleamed like moonlight. |
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The United Nations had sealed the materials, and they remained untouched until the US troops arrived. |
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She ate in the classical female style, leaving at least half the food on her plate untouched. |
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Pushing food around on your plate will disguise the fact that something has remained untouched. |
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No one seemed to worry that they were demolishing unreplaceable objects, ruining things that were best left untouched. |
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A quick look at the untouched plates of the others showed that I wasn't the only one who had suddenly lost my appetite. |
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The lack of utensils might have been why many plates went virtually untouched. |
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To add insult to injury, several supermodels left their plates untouched, a new twist on the concept of world hunger. |
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The collection of Egyptian antiquities, which consisted of articles that were not unique, was left untouched. |
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I looked down at my plate of untouched food, and the truth suddenly dawned on me. |
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Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray. |
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The two untouched cinnamon buns on her plate are a Proustian touch added by the Chicago-based founder of American Girl Place. |
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The theme remains untouched, while the execution of that theme is continually refreshed. |
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It came as something pure and good, untouched unspoilt by words, and shone over my life forever. |
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Yet right under our noses all along, there's been one great writer who has left barely a social issue untouched. |
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No matter how industrious, every journalist will leave a hundred million topics untouched before he dies. |
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Though this topic is not untouched, the dance-drama flows along with a different path of choreography. |
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Although the internet is a marvel when it comes to spreading information worldwide, it seems to me that some subjects are better left untouched. |
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Visiting blogs and writing them has facilitated the exploration of topics which would have otherwise been left untouched. |
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As a non-drinker, I was untouched by this, but my friend opted not to drink a lot, and still had a great night. |
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Perhaps it's better to leave the memories untouched, keep wearing the rose-tinted specs. |
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My personal journals, the ones that contain the stuff that doesn't appear on here, go through months of being untouched and not-updated. |
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However, to those uninitiated into Clive's plans and untouched by his exuberant enthusiasm, there seems to be a bit of a problem. |
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Smashed windows allowed in the pigeons, whose urine and excrement was untouched for years. |
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I stared at Tavis' untouched cup of coffee, which looked rather dark and soupy. |
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The rajas were left untouched despite demands for independence, self-rule and decolonization elsewhere. |
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From the dust bowl of the Kalahari Desert to the flood plains of the Okavango Delta, Botswana is an untouched wilderness. |
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The Lord is said to be untouched by karmic activities, all-knowing, and teacher of ancient sages. |
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She secretly envied the maid for her ability to remain so sly and untouched by pain. |
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Even then, despite being left untouched, it would lose the signal and be unable to reacquire it. |
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Only her eyes, pure, bright, blue, were untouched by the ravages of disfiguration. |
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The smooth red brickwork and fancy white window frames seemed untouched by human hands. |
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Precolonial forests were not untouched Edens or community resources shared equitably by all. |
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Seal it all in plastic kitchen wrap, and leave untouched for at least a week to 10 days. |
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The fact that some structures were wrecked while others remained untouched could point to inferior building methods. |
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Still, as the war approached its final season, Mobile was one of the South's last strongholds, the gateway to an untouched plantation hinterland. |
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It lasted for nine days in all and reduced three of the fourteen regions of the city to rubble, leaving only four regions untouched. |
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Civilizations that have remained relatively untouched by the ravages of war have invariably produced the finest cuisine in the world. |
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It was one of the few dresses that I had managed to save from the fire, untouched by flame and perfectly intact and unwrinkled. |
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While accessible to surrounding tribes, the area remains largely untouched because of the belief that a giant anaconda guards its shores. |
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It left slavery untouched until the Civil War but it put in place a representative republic with basic rights for its citizens. |
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In some patches of my woods in Maine, I can hardly find a single sapling that is untouched by moose, deer, or snowshoe hares. |
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Undaunted, uncluttered, untouched, this is the charm of Tobago for the celebrated citizens of the world who retreat to its shores. |
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They looked deserted, stark against the sky with snow sitting untouched on windowsills and the crumbling crenellations. |
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It is maiden also when it is still in its original, unused, untouched or unexplored condition. |
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In a typical gesture of sibling acceptance, Hoss leaned over and forked Adam's untouched ham onto his own plate. |
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For weeks, it was untouched, then I noticed that something had been pecking around the aperture. |
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Perhaps only those who have seen the untouched splendour of a Chola temple can truly comprehend the damage done to the temples of the north. |
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She noted the importance of wildlife or movement corridors to link established parks with untouched wilderness areas. |
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A couple of us Little League coaches got into a discussion about how to score a catchable fly ball that drops untouched in the outfield. |
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Tucked away in the corner of the market place in Beverley, the cinema, a converted corn exchange, kept its magical, untouched feel. |
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They also brought water, which went largely untouched while there was still wine in the flask. |
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Miraculously, both my eyes were untouched, but though Mahulda rinsed them with boric acid, I could not rid my vision of a faint roseate tint. |
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At the end of the war, these supplies remained untouched in arsenals, warehouses, schools, and even Buddhist temples scattered throughout Japan. |
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There's probably a copy of the book in every aspirational middle-class home, and equally probably, the last 20 pages remain untouched. |
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The roads had been plowed, so they would be traveling alongside the roads across the banked snow, and some of the still untouched snow. |
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The table saw was untouched and dusty, and there were no misplaced goggles, moved blocks of wood, or signs of sawing action anywhere. |
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Better solutions for both of these examples would be to leave the human process untouched and augment the system with automation. |
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Even the greenest and purest, seemingly untouched fields were breeding grounds filled with fermenting disease and devastation. |
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Be awed by the untouched vastness of some of the oldest mountains on the planet. |
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They were left over from an intarsia project and are both untouched, full skeins. |
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There, his cup untouched beside him, he made free with the host's collection of books. |
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Plenty of telemarketing territory is untouched by recent regulatory efforts. |
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It had snowed for the last few days, and the woods were buried in a perfect untouched mantle of thick fresh snow. |
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This pictures, however, are possibly the last time we'll see the station in this untouched, pristine state. |
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It rose far above her, untouched by light and staring at her through baleful eyes. |
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Everything here is natural, untouched and unchanged, perhaps much as it was in Vedic times. |
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Thousands of miles of unspoilt coastline, isolated and untouched lakes and pristine mountain ranges are there for the discovering. |
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The council chamber, banqueting hall and Lord Mayor's room would be largely untouched. |
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Their ancient way of life is still virtually untouched by the outside world. |
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Virtually untouched by the outside world, these islands have only a handful of residents. |
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Is it just a case of throwing up our hands and praying that those we love remain untouched? |
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For Albert it offered an opportunity to display his mediatory and diplomatic skills that would otherwise have remained untouched. |
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The beating up had been cleverly done, for his face had been left untouched. |
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The island has an untouched oyster bed while the general area has mussel and cockle beds. |
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To his credit, there are Indianisms still in Narayan's work, untouched by any putative editorial insularity. |
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For those who have dived upon an untouched shipwreck the experience is described as very moving indeed. |
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Now, this magnificent route in one of Britain's most untouched and stunningly beautiful areas has been specially prepared to welcome them. |
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But he left his benefaction for the university untouched and so inspired his colleagues and sons that they saw to its establishment. |
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More than 500 people have signed a petition calling for the plans to be thrown out and the land left untouched. |
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He discovered that the fungi are smaller and about ten times less abundant in the plantations than they are in untouched forests. |
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The cows swished their tails at the afternoon sun, the red barns stood still and solid, seemingly untouched by summers and winters gone by. |
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She scraped her untouched food into a black plastic rubbish sack and swilled the plate in a bowl of cold water in the sink. |
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The issues raised so vividly in this book remain sadly untouched by those efforts. |
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The nobleman goes on to host orgies, untouched by grief or remorse, until his horrible death. |
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The couple's biggest fear will be realised if the council decides to demolish the surrounding streets and leave theirs untouched. |
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Later, she would voice her thoughts on other matters, topics best left untouched. |
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Once under the wilderness area, Revett aims to spend 30 years hollowing out an untouched patch of mountain, and extracting its riches. |
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Little Jack is kidnapped in bizarre circumstances and summarily returned with the ransom money untouched. |
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She looks out of the window over the parking lot and slides the tray of untouched fries away. |
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A multitude of previously untouched social and lifestyle subjects are now reported and discussed. |
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It was a place untouched by man, for the mountain was far too high, and far too treacherous. |
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Yet the war itself has, until recently, been a subject virtually untouched by Western historians. |
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The next morning the untouched haunch of venison is on the breakfast table, now cooked to Paivikki's satisfaction, but cold. |
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Light bloomed along the weal left by the ice-lash, then scattered, the long mark untouched. |
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I thought not knowing the guy would mean I could breeze through the day unaffected, untouched. |
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And so Paris stands today, untouched, unblemished, simply one of the world's most magnificent cities. |
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As it leaves no aspect of earthly existence untouched, so such an agenda can leave no layperson uncalled. |
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It is the only Arab news channel to present untouched news and uncensored debate. |
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Rich in moss, mist and mozzies, New Zealand's southernmost forests appear serene, remote and virtually untouched by human hands. |
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Few people can remain untouched by the wave of nostalgia sweeping the land right now. |
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The bong pipe, which accompanies him everywhere, stands untouched on the table. |
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They were untouched by social radicalism and uninfluenced by extreme nationalist opinions. |
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This two bedroom sub-penthouse offers panoramic views all across the top of Greenwich view and is brand-new, untouched and unlived in. |
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Yet the fire still burned, the horses and mules still drowsed in their corner of the cave, and their three companions slept on, untouched by all that had happened. |
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And the commissioners wisely left untouched the most contentious issues, such as voter identification laws. |
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The protected woodlands in Hazelwood will remain largely untouched, but proposals have been put forward that they be opened up to pedestrians via a series of walkways. |
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Yet in the film, the dwarves, hobbit and wizard all congregate to a single tree that remains untouched by the fire. |
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Those services will remain untouched by the current suit, according to City Attorney spokesman Frank Manteljan. |
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Here on these wind blown islands with their indescribable untouched beauty, you travel among spectacular sandbars and reefs in search of natural produce. |
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You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, using the untouched island habitat as a safe haven during their journey south. |
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Its sanctity may have been grievously insulted by the High Court today, but that sanctity remains untouched. |
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The President said the bridge would boost the economy on Madura island, which has been largely untouched by development, lagging behind other regions in Indonesia. |
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His ethereally beautiful girlfriend, Marina, was with him, sitting silent in front of an untouched cocktail. |
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He bought a fender Stratocaster guitar when he was young, but it remained untouched in his room for years. |
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The Union government has raised the administered prices of kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, and aviation turbine fuel while leaving diesel and petrol untouched. |
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This would leave the top rate under ATRA untouched while shifting the terms of the tax debate to friendlier terrain. |
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New windows, a brighter floral display and an external paint job have left the place fit for a queen, although the lived-in atmosphere inside has been left untouched. |
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They operate in a realm largely untouched by legislation, unions, and guilds. |
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An aging mainframe system was left untouched, instead of being replaced. |
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Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes. |
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The shadow that their great houses cast over nearby slave cabins reached as far as the distant metropoles, so that few were untouched by the planters' enormous presence. |
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After the losses that left virtually no American family untouched, the outcome of the war remained uncertain. |
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To the east are wastes still largely untouched by millennial prosperity. |
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Hidden among papers, magazines, books, and correspondence from a remote age, there are the first three issues, in mint condition, unread and untouched for decades. |
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The untouched liquid tremored slightly in the half-full glass. |
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Of course, meat loaf's art supplies were found moments later, untouched by Busey. |
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She shrieked with pain, tears rolled down her beautiful, untouched face. |
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Inside the mobile home the next day, she says, were an untouched glass of wine and a burned-down cigarette. |
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The mockery comes from a place unburdened by history and untouched by the present. |
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An important enabler of this abuse is the shrugs of the untouched, whose rising shoulders prop up the toxic world. |
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Though with budget cuts now looming, Congress is trying to gut some of those benefits while wasteful programs go untouched. |
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The natural resource has remained relatively untouched, unexploited. |
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In placing value on the pristine, the untouched, and the unpeopled, it fails to question the form of the ultimate relationship between humans and nature. |
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I had a very good feed during the 1996 elections when we basically knew we lost within the first hour and I was able to get at all the untouched party pies. |
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After a few moments silence, Ben pushed away his plate of untouched food. |
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At any rate, to allow their version of events to float in the blogosphere, untouched and unanswered is to normalise it, make it an acceptable and normal kind of argument. |
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Still, some core issues were left untouched for the December session. |
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In general, this means leaving the unique cloud forest untouched. |
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Feeling the cold now, as the wind whipped across the flat ground, I pushed on, stepping into a deep cold puddle before crossing untouched snow on a wide patch of grass. |
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Eventually, other people wake and the magic of the untouched snow is broken by the sounds of snowblowers and tires crunching their way down the street. |
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Much of it is still largely untouched bush, rivers and wild coasts. |
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He's bushwhacked 2,000 miles through the some of the last untouched forests of Africa and hosted a rogue's gallery of tropical parasites and disease along the way. |
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Such juries would be unlikely to evict squatters from land owned by a wealthy entity that left the land untouched, i.e., treated as an investment. |
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The torrential rain and widespread flooding left nowhere untouched. |
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Otherwise this year's gathering will remain untouched featuring everything from traditional fairground rides to traction engines, steamrollers and wagons. |
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With many areas of the country untouched by foot and mouth, there is nothing to stop caravanners making the most of the Easter break and enjoying the countryside and coast. |
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A feeble card table covered in a plastic table cloth struggled to support a cheesy punch bowl surrounded by untouched cups and overflowing snack baskets. |
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Again Dave explains that this is a fantastic place for wildlife and one of the few places in the country where you can see white chalk cliffs untouched by man. |
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Evidently, the secondary exposure to Hollywood through this man, who hobnobs with the greats there every week, had left his audience singularly untouched. |
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His preference for working on cardboard with quick-fire liquid paints, and for leaving large expanses of this cardboard untouched, adds to the sense of incompleteness. |
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He saw another Indian dismount and pull the picket pin of a horse near the tent, untouched by gunfire then but struck from his horse after he dashed away. |
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An orgy of groping and fumbling, and no sexual connotation left untouched. |
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There was a plate of untouched scrambled eggs and a glass of orange juice on the table, which led her to guess that he'd fixed himself breakfast but had been unable to eat. |
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Gerhard, a quiet dreamy boy, found himself attracted to the conventicles, but although he heard numerous gospel sermons, his mind remained confused and his heart untouched. |
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A sigh echoed through the room as two legs perched upon the surface of the polished mahogany table, its base cluttered with piles of untouched papers. |
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Divers and naturalists rave about the pristine waters, coral reefs and untouched forests, while vulcanologists go weak at the mere thought of its many smoking peaks. |
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Edward was the only one who held a key, and he had to deliver me to Liam untouched, or he would never fulfil his outrageous desire to take my fief from me. |
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The peak rate of customs duty has been left untouched at 20 per cent. |
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For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background. |
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Puerto Jimenez, the peninsula's capital, was until very recently an illegal gold town, set up by prospectors needing supplies to explore the untouched jungle interiors. |
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The piece of pita bread lay untouched as we devoured the food. |
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Back then, he seemed to be living on another planet, a delightfully dotty and scholarly man untouched by the more mundane aspects of the modern world. |
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In this untouched wonderland you come to believe that you are following in the tracks of the rainbow serpent, who is said to have gouged out the gorge in the Dreamtime. |
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Thereafter, it was occasionally visited, but left untouched, as a kind of shrine. |
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Nome's gold fields, appearing untouched from the surface, are honeycombed with tunnels left by the gold rush drift miners. |
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While common salt has been left untouched, there will be a marginal reduction in freight adjustment in the case of diesel and limestone. |
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Benthic assemblages in urbanized coastal regions are not functionally equivalent to benthic assemblages in untouched regions. |
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It soon becomes clear that the MPAA does indeed discriminate against gay storylines, while violence gets through almost untouched. |
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They found that a wheel had passed over his right calf and thigh, leaving his knee itself untouched. |
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The language of the period, with its turns of phrase, its Canadianisms, and its Anglicisms, is left untouched. |
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Possibly the most notable countryside church is the ancient and untouched stone church in Dalby. |
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In the untouched Shangri-la-like Kingman Reef in the Line Islands in the central Pacific, sharks make up 75 per cent of the fish biomass. |
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These potatoes, however, planted the next year, have a fair yield, untouched by the curl. |
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Go and marvel at this awesome, largely untouched, bubbling lunarscape of a land that's constantly shifting, changing and taking you by surprise. |
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But saltires have remained untouched at the A1 crossing point near Berwick-upon-Tweed. |
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Yet, even here, Tory dogma is about moving the debate rightwards and picking off vulnerable groups while leaving pensioner benefits untouched. |
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Violence even spread Tuesday to Kutch district, which had remained untouched by the religious mayhem for over a month. |
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Structurally, the Constitution's original text and all prior amendments remain untouched. |
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Only a few farmers appeared to have inhabited the area at the time, and they left the Avebury monument largely untouched. |
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The site has been untouched by intensive farming methods for decades and is home to choughs, pied flycatchers, willow warblers and otters. |
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Rubio bashes Crist at every opportunity while leaving Meek untouched. |
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The mind here exhibited is one untouched by pity, unstung by remorse, and uncorrected by shame. |
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In August 2011 an untouched cist, on Whitehorse Hill, near Chagford, was the first to be excavated on the moor for over 100 years. |
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Box Hill has the oldest untouched area of natural woodland in the UK, one of the oldest in Europe. |
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Warehouses, rail lines and houses were destroyed and damaged, but the docks were largely untouched. |
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Aside from the June 1878 work, Brunel's original roof structure remained untouched throughout the improvements. |
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That pattern best fits a scenario in which hominids retrieved heads left untouched by big cats. |
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I've guided heli-ski trips where we've been dropped on top of beautiful, untouched, 30-degree slopes. |
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Many areas did little or nothing to change their city defences, perhaps an indication that they were left untouched by the wars. |
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We joked about the untouched boxload of brand new snow shovels. |
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The Corporation has been broadly untouched by local government reforms and democratisation. |
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Julius II succeeded in doing away with some of the smaller branches, but left the division of the two great parties untouched. |
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Unfortunately for those who salivating for a new era for the Cowboys, Romo is apparently untouched and untraded as of tonight. |
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Secondly, the invention of the dredge enabled oyster harvesters to reach untouched depths of the Chesapeake. |
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There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them. |
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In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War II bombing but was left mostly untouched as German pilots used the distinctive structure as a landmark. |
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Questions of how floor beams continue to support a floor while unobserved, how trees continue to grow while unobserved and untouched by human hands, etc. |
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Cameroon's tax code is sophisticated, and even the study's interviewees, untouched by formal business laws, reported paying at least some tax imposed by the formal tax law. |
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In January 2017, archaeologists using underground radar reported the discovery of the relatively untouched ground floor of a Roman townhouse and outbuilding. |
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Six national parks protect the largely untouched, yet fragile environment. |
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The Roman historian Tacitus reports that Prasutagus had left a will leaving half his kingdom to Nero in the hope that the remainder would be left untouched. |
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Anthony Grehan of the National University of Ireland, Galway, the virtually untouched site could benefit dwindling fish stocks and possibly aid medical research. |
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United's initial response was bright, with Young's corner drifting untouched across the six-yard area and Van Persie just unable to keep an overhead kick down. |
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The gorges in the island, such as the Daal of Lumbister provide an important environment for some of the few trees on the island, since they are untouched by sheep grazing. |
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While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that much wildlife is affected by human activities. |
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They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness. |
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With the exception of Fennoscandia and northern Russia, few areas of untouched wilderness are currently found in Europe, except for various national parks. |
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Having disturbed a vespiary, one cannot hope to remain untouched by wasps. |
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Should we catch minor corruptionists and leave big untouched? |
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Madison County Undersheriff John Ball said the dead mother was found next to an outdoor wood boiler and a neatly piled stack of wood, which were untouched. |
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But there are still some Brethren assemblies that seek to be completely untouched by changing attitudes within society regarding the role of women. |
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But if this five-hour flight from Sao Paulo offers a glimpse of a vast and untouched Amazon, it also highlights the checkerboarding created by recent development. |
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Most Stevenson Ranch residents spent Thursday mopping up, washing the thick black ash off their cars and driveways and giving thanks that their homes were untouched. |
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Foreigners refer to Malpais as one of Costa Rica's last untouched spots. |
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South India has remained relatively unscathed by waves of northern conquerors, and the essential Dravidian culture that defines India has remained almost untouched. |
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Kangaroo Island Health Retreat, South Australia In one of the most untouched areas in Australia, this is the perfect place for a detox from the inside out. |
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