to the touch
Feeling a certain way when touched.
soft to the touch, smooth to the touch
There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm of the fatalist, always disconcerting to very young people, who cannot feel that the heart lives at all unless it is still at the mercy of storms; unless its strings can scream to the touch of pain. Willa Cather
The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold. Jean Dubuffet
This is a book and a body that is so warm to the touch. My touch. Peter Greenaway
Platero is a small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black crystal scarabs. Juan Ramón Jiménez
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel. Colleen McCullough
I don't remember everything," he said. "Not yet. But I remember you." He brought her hand up, touched the gold ring on her right index finger, the Fair Folk metal warm to the touch. "Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend. Cassandra Clare