Sentence examples for have first touched from inspiring English sources

"You can only reach the highest peaks of heaven if you have first touched your feet on the floor of the inferno," Kazantzakis tells us St Francis said.

Between the tangle of heavy industry, it's about as close as you can still get to the area where the Clotilda and the 110 kidnapped west Africans aboard are said to have first touched ground – and where the remains of what might in fact be the ship were recently discovered, thanks to unusual weather conditions.

Around 25 minutes after the planes had first touched down, Netanyahu died in Sneh's arms.

(Shakespeare was almost self-quoting here, having first touched on green as the colour of envy in The Merchant of Venice, where Portia alludes to "green-eyed jealousy").. Allow yourself to "gossip" (A Midsummer Night's Dream), and you're quoting him.

Jolie had first touched down in Rwanda on Sunday.

I covered his thigh with mine, snaking my arm under his pajama top so that I could stroke the chest hair I had first touched seven years before.

When the ball hit the catcher's protector, it did not qualify for a foul-tip third strike, for it had not been first touched by the catcher's hand or mitt.

Sinofsky insisted that it was Windows 7 that had first introduced touch interfaces.

THE wave of economic reforms that has washed over Latin America first touched shore in Chile.

"It's against the run of play and Marouane Fellaini has probably had his first touch of the game.

The tornado had several flashpoints, first touching down on Staten Island shortly before 6 30 a.m. and then skipping across the water on its way to Bay Ridge.