| 1. | He wants to bully, ah--the old grudge makes me touchy ADVANCING. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up Gregor's room was for her and her alone. - from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
| 3. | Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |