Meanings of touching there in English

As Bolabola was difficult of access, Captain Cook gave up his intention of touching there.

For in the experience which the plain man calls seeing or touching there is always present another thing.

He felt the sticky wetness on his brow, reached up... and another hand forestalled him, touching there, caressing there.

At first he was greatly annoyed by cats and rats, which had been landed from some ships touching there, and had now greatly increased.

Aden, a desolated port, was the spot fixed on; and the steam-vessels touching there were enabled to prepare themselves for the continuance of their voyage.

If only we knew what the underworld of our hidden lives revealed, what tangential touchings there were, all the secret causal chains.

Touching there, it felt like the suit surface under the pads of her fingers had gone sub-millimetre thin, allowing her almost full sensitivity.

'Tis true indeed at the touching there are prayers read, but perhaps, neither the King attends them nor his chaplains.