1 Jonas was a Yankee and a bachelor, and the fact that he was an overseer forever barred him from any contact with the County social life.
2 Fortunately Scarlett had come into contact with the two men very little, for Will had persuaded her to let him handle the trading while she managed the plantation.
3 Mostly of having life suddenly become too real, of being brought into personal, too personal, contact with some of the simple facts of life.
4 And she had missed the daily contact with him, even if there was always someone around.
5 But even had the two been in closer contact, it was impossible to think of Mrs. Peniston's mind as offering shelter or comprehension to such misery as Lily's.
6 Her visit to the Girls' Club had first brought her in contact with the dramatic contrasts of life.
7 But it is one thing to live comfortably with the abstract conception of poverty, another to be brought in contact with its human embodiments.
8 The light extinguished, they lay still in the darkness, Gerty shrinking to the outer edge of the narrow couch to avoid contact with her bed-fellow.
9 He laid his hand for a moment on hers, and there passed between them, on the current of the rare contact, one of those exchanges of meaning which fill the hidden reservoirs of affection.
10 The difficulty was to find any point of contact between her ideals and Lily's.
11 Even the contact with the packet did not shake her nerves as she had half-expected it would.
12 She did, at first, put into her contact with the patrons a willingness which should have moved worlds.
13 It also seems to me that such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for I have most remarked them in the large, full-grown bulls of the species.
14 For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
15 And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm.