As a stranger in this country, I am much inter-rested in your processes of law.
Yet I asked myself now whether there was any one in the past who had ever moved me in the same way as this girl, who was still almost a perfect stranger to me.
Monsieur, unless I am mistaken, is a stranger there.
I was not in the least surprised when the door was at last cautiously opened, and a woman who was a perfect stranger to me stood on the threshold, with the handle of the door still in her hand.
You are a young man, but your experience has doubtless told you that in this world one does not often go out of one's way to serve a stranger for no purpose at all.
The little mujik, who had been looking at the stranger with large, blue, wide-open eyes, instantly obeyed.
Was this stranger a holy saint, a worker of miracles?
But had it been a stranger or an enemy whose presence he felt amidst that immense, dreary, aching solitude, still he would have flung himself at his feet and implored his help and pity.
There are secrets in His dealings with His own with which a stranger may not intermeddle.
The stranger turned towards Robin, but made no reply; it is sometimes given to the simple to disconcert the wise, and that alone by their simplicity.
Constantia, her whole countenance and figure dilating with that hope which had so long been a stranger to her bosom.
After a few more words, both the Buccaneer and the stranger were secreted in the arched chamber, and the curtain of skins again fell over the entrance.
The stranger entirely withdrew his hold from Springall, while he moved towards the summit of the rock.
Robin immediately recognised the stranger as the old Jew, Manasseh Ben Israel, whom he had seen at Sir Willmott Burrell's.
Burrell pledged his word "as a Christian and a soldier:" the stranger withdrew his sword.
You are not, surely, going to leave me in this horrid place, and with a stranger too!
Think" The stranger gradually withdrew himself from under the hand of his monitor; and, pulling his hat over his brows, thus interrupted him.
Upon receiving the citation, therefore, her thoughts did not turn upon the chimerical scruples which alarmed her father's mind, but to the language which had been held to her by the stranger at Muschat's Cairn.
A stranger he was in this country, and a companion of that lawless vagabond, Wilson, I think, Effie?
The stranger pursued his address to her, without seeming to notice her surprise.
Yet the tone in which the stranger spoke had nothing of the soft half-breathed voice proper to the seducer who solicits an assignation; it was bold, fierce, and imperative, and had less of love in it than of menace and intimidation.
At this answer, the stranger again plucked more deep over his brows the hat which he had thrown back in his former agitation.
The stranger went on without observing his emotion.
They forgot the homeless stranger and her pleading for shelter in their glad welcome to the daughter of the house.
Only Dave had not forgotten the strangeris the joy of Kate's home-coming.
Anna Moore was a stranger on whose case she could sit with unbiased judgment.
Your kindness since has quite made me forget that you hesitated to take an utter stranger into your household.
What if Norah should not 'take to' the new father--the stranger who yet was so truly her own Robert of old?
The fact that this new guest was a stranger to him, and that his father was seated by him in close conversation, made it at once apparent to Ned that it must be Golden.
While all this was being told the stranger stood immovable, with his arms folded; he did not understand half of it.
You, too, must consent to think of me as something more than a stranger whose life you have saved.
No one knew where she had fled to before it was morning--and the stranger had gone.
I am eager and wakeful, I am a strangerin a strange land.
One evening the strangercame down from the cloud-hidden peak; his locks were tangled like drowsy snakes.
Presently everyone was speculating upon the possibility of the little stranger being the one entertained by the Mantons.
She knew he could scent a stranger in any part of the house, and she was equally sure a real person had moved over by the cabinet.
His wife said no more, but she was stricken, and readier than before to hate this stranger who surpassed her thus at every turn.
Its mother would not now watch its growth, or tend on it if it were sick; a stranger would dry its tears, win its smiles, and have its love.
Between your old mother and a stranger you do not hesitate; your choice is at once made.
Passion, on the contrary, when the soul is a stranger to it, is made up of egotism and material gratifications.
I beg pardon, madame, but a stranger who delivered this letter said that it must be given to Madame the Princess at once.
But these notices, between the lines of which it was so easy to read, did not trouble the noble stranger an instant.
And little Mavis knew now that it was not fear that made the stranger girl scream--and she, too, was puzzled.
Then they all looked at one another until boy's eyes rested on boy's eyes for question and answer, and the stranger lad's face flashed with quick humor.
At once the stranger lad walked forward to his enemy, and confused Jason gave him a limp hand.
All this the dreamystranger had taught him, and much more.
That stranger boy was a fighter, and Jason's honest soul told him that if interference had not come he would have been whipped, and his pride was still smarting with every step.
A moment more Mavis's strong little hand had the stranger boy by his thick hair and Mavis, feeling her own arm clutched by the stranger-girl, let go and turned on her like a fury.
I found him, as I guessed, still in the elder-bush, a tenfold stranger sight than before.
I was surprised and somewhat affected by this crowning kindness, and at the sight of so much care for a stranger whose very name was unknown.
I was in a desperate confusion, half angry at my own haste, and half bitter at the coldness of a friend who would permit a stranger to ride off alone with scarce a word of regret.
Tis seldom we have a stranger with us, since my brother at Drumlanrig died in the spring o' last year.
Sunder me from my soul, that I may see The sins like streaming wounds, the life's brave beat; Till I shall save myself, as I would save A stranger in the street.
Ah, well if the soil of the stranger had wrapped you, While the lords that you served and the friends that you knew Hawk in the marts of the tyrants that trapped you, Tout in the shops of the butchers that slew.
In the grey rocks the burning blossom Glowed terrible as the sacred blood: It was no stranger to your bosom Than bluebells of an English wood.
His hair was pushed carelessly back from his broad white brow, and Helen was no stranger to the look with which he gazed upon Mrs. Melville.
Soon after, a stranger called to see Mrs. Leland on business; and Emma withdrew to their little bed-room.
A stranger had taken up his residence at the village inn.
At the end of that time the Irish girl, who had succeeded in establishing "Dick's" claim to her satisfaction, arose and invited the stranger to the room of Madame Morrow.
The appearance of the venerable sage of Delancey street was not so imposing as to strike a stranger with awe--quite the contrary.
Out of the chimney, which was the little end of the telescope, issued a sickly smoke; and through a door in the lower story, which was the big end thereof, was the stranger admitted by a little girl.
It resents the presence of a strangeras an impertinent intrusion, and avenges the personality in various disagreeable ways.
In all the conversation the name of the stranger was not mentioned, and oddly enough Priscilla did not even then connect her friend of the music and laughter with the boy of the Hill Place.
Jerry-Jo's long-ago description had been too vivid to be forgotten, and this stranger was one to charm and win confidence.
Indeed, the stranger did not seem wholly of the earth, earthy.
Just then the boat touched the wharf, and a sleepy man, a strangerto Priscilla, materialized and looked at her queerly.
You see, you are no stranger to me; I have the advantage of you.
Four men and three women were carried to St. Albans and now occupied private rooms, while the torn and broken body of the unknown stranger lay in Ward Five, quite unconscious.
A young stranger who joined in the search and got scratched by a sahee," explained the grooms.
Stranger as I am, I will remain with the little girl, if Mrs. Desborough wishes me.
The poor wee child, so long a stranger to bath or hair-brush, hated both.
Strange," said the boy; "but I have something here for you that is stranger still.
The little creature, so long a stranger to the taste of sugar, sucked its lips with pleasure.
To the stranger who has never heard of this oddity, and comes unexpectedly upon it, the sight of a solemn white marble cross in a place so generally associated with conviviality is nothing less than startling.
To the stranger who first catches sight of it, this polar bear among the geraniums and the sweet-williams is sufficiently startling.
Mine host thought in shillings, but the stranger in guineas.
The stranger offered to buy, but the landlord declared he would not sell.
Of all converted inns, there is probably no stranger case than that of the "Edinburgh Castle.
On one of his cruises, while lying off the Scottish coast waiting for a rich trader, he was boarded by a stranger who came off in a small boat from the shore.
At length Blackbeard appeared on deck with the stranger whom he introduced as a comrade.
The stranger soon proved himself a pirate leader of great skill and bravery and went cruising off to the southward and the coasts of the Spanish Main.
Renwick could not believe, after all that he had done for her, that she would throw herself into the hands of a stranger on the barest chance of success without at least confiding in him.
The face of the strangerwas that of none of these.
He had gone inside the house again, for the actions of any stranger in Konopisht were sure to be conspicuous and he felt himself already an object of notice.
There was a muffled discharge as the stranger attempted to draw the weapon from his pocket, but the bullet did no damage, and the Englishman's blow, fiercely struck, sent the other reeling sideways.
The man who had attacked him in the streets of Vienna--this cigarette-smoking stranger in Bartfeld.
Hugh Renwick--his note to her--this stranger with the remarkable eyes who always smiled!
The stranger was a very tall man in dark clothes, who gave an instant impression of long rectangularity.
I am a stranger in these parts," Renwick went on, "and no mischief maker.
At Ujvidek, when Renwick, bag in hand, got down upon the station platform, the stranger stood beside him, fingering his cotton umbrella foolishly and looking this way and that.
The face of the man in the cap, and the stranger of Bartfeld--they were the same!
The stranger turned toward him a slow bovine gaze which gradually relaxed into the semblance of a smile.
