"Retouch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... left us the last speech, without a retouch. But we'll put our little minds, such as they are, in the best trim ...
— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin
... found Mr. Bartley alone, and why? because, at sight of Walter, Mary, for the first time in her life, had flown upstairs to look at herself in the glass before facing the visitor, and to smooth her hair, and retouch a bow, etc., underrating, as usual, the power of beauty, and overrating nullities. Bartley took this opportunity, and ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade |
