“The other thing that I remember was that he was very touchy, very sensitive. He could fly into the most fearful tempers and, when he did, all his body seemed to jump about as though it moved on wires.”

“One must choose one's words carefully when speaking to a touchy boss.”

“The biggest expenditure in those days was the horse feed for the fire department, a touchy subject in a town that had already burned down a couple of times by then.”

“I was very touched to learn that you have been to New Haven and Hartford to learn about their experiences in redevelopment.”

“Downstairs, there was a small study with a little walnut writing table and scarlet lacquered walls touched with gold.”

“The Commissioner must be a little touched to do on such a day what could quite easily be put off till after the cooling rain which must come.”

“This brought half the guests to tears as it was quite a touching scene.”

“A state contiguous to this state shall mean any state with a border touching a border of this state.”

“Canadians spend so much time agonizing over our lack of solid, touchable, definable identity that it has practically become a national pastime.”

“Ultra-light polymers produce a flexible hold so hair remains touchable and supple.”

“He is surrounded by invisible and untouchable beings that should already be visible and touchable.”

“People like Jeff York are touchous, and they are especially touchous about their women-folks, and you do not make jokes with or about their women-folks.”

“He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any.”

“Pragmatic charmer with the purse Election foretaste Watch that tactician ReprintsMr Meciar could not have picked a touchier subject.”

“The Germans seem touchier than others about spying. America is itself reconsidering the balance between security and freedom.”

“It was not a good idea and it didn't work. This statement caused a furore in Berlin, where politicians are even touchier than their Hungarian counterparts about references to the second world war.”

“In all, this is a no-nonsense, practical, hands on guide to one of the touchiest subjects needing to be taught.”

“Refugee arrivals by boat have become one of the touchiest political issues in Australia in recent years.”

“Newspaper scribes may be the touchiest people of all on the subject of downloading the written word.”