The inquisitors are paying him to spy out the secrets of all strangers who might come in here.
May God let me live for a hundred years, but what do all these strangers concern me?
Smeraldina dismantled the bridge and endeavoured in vain to explain how the strangers unusual behaviour, his poverty, his generosity, his gray hair, and his lust for adventure would fit together.
There rose the beautiful house, just as the strangers would get their first glimpse of it; for the last time the Howards came South, only a dim idea of it could have been obtained.
The Drought paused in his story, and the three strangers praised it.
They were still at the distance at which camels appear to be as tiny as moths; but they were certainly two human beings--two who were strangers in the desert; for the palm knew the desert-folk.
The three strangersmade a quick movement, and their faces expressed deep suffering.
But my wife and I come from a foreign land, and as poor strangers we have not been able to find a better dwelling-place.
It's the custom of the country and suits well enough, so strangers may turn their heads on one side--it's none of their business.
Then came the old man's hour for reading a Psalm, and he opened the "big book" without any apparent thought ofstrangers being present.
If there was a soul in happiness in the universe, it was this one; and he did not forget the strangers under his roof.
Strangers may make mistakes when they see ruined people for the first time, but they get to know that when a tin man looks most prosperous, he's most ruined.
Situated as John and I are now, strangersis so disagreeable.
They had travelled but a little way into the woods when he bade them stay where they were, while he told the spirit of the land that the strangers he had promised were come, and with that he descended into a deep cave near at hand.
Upon the shore stood a great many strange people, but when they saw the strangers step upon the land and the man-fish, they fled to the woods like startled deer, and were no more seen.
Tell me, ye strangersfrom a strange country, ye women who appear not to be of this world, what it is that causes you pain of mind, and makes you utter these unceasing sighs.
Observing the parts to which the strangerswere most partial, the hunter resolved the next day to anticipate their wants by cutting off and tying up a portion of the fat for each.
Such conduct appeared very strange to the hunter, but supposing the strangers had been a long time without food, he made no remark; and his wife, taking example from her husband, likewise restrained herself.
She invited the strangers to enter and warm themselves, thinking, from the distance to the nearest neighbours, they must have walked a considerable way.
They seemed to be total strangers to that part of the country, and the more closely she observed them the more curious the hunter's wife became respecting her guests.
The early Christians confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims in the earth, and that they desired a better country, even a heavenly.
We are but pilgrims and strangershere below," he exclaims, "let us then welcome the day that gives to us the joys of heaven.
His manners to strangers were very stiff; his friendship, once gained, was earnest and unchangeable.
Little more than three years ago there came a day long to be remembered by every man, woman, and child resident in New Orleans, and by all strangers then sojourning within her gates.
These werestrangers and unwelcome, but far from home and friends, suffering, dying.
Delicacies of all kinds were prepared constantly in that "Virginia kitchen," and daintily arranged in the pantry by the ladies' own hands, but only to be sent to the sick and wounded strangers lying in the numerous hospitals.
The ladies having been introduced, the strangers accepted a cordial invitation to alight.
That they were strangers to Aden could be easily guessed, for they looked curiously about them, and stopped every now and again to look in at the shop windows.
Half of these followers were with me once before in an expedition, and I can fully trust them; the remainder are, however, strangers to me.
Immediate cordiality to strangers is frowned upon as tending to divorce courtesy from truth.
The flame of rebellion may smoulder unobserved while the sufferer is in his own home, but among strangers it will blaze fiercely, as the mind protests against the misinterpretations of its unworthy partner.
I happened at that time to have an unusual flow of spirits; and as one who finds himself amongst utter strangers in a distant country has no timidity, I harangued the men of Bastelica with great fluency.
You need no other recommendation to these gentlemen but your own merit, the Corsicans being naturally so courteous and hospitable, that all strangers who come among them, are made welcome and caressed.
The house of Torre Tagle, near San Pedro, and some others, are remarkable for the beauty of their ornaments, which attract the notice of all strangers visiting Lima.
In general, they have no idea of a spiritual unity, and are utter strangers to the knowledge of one God.
Excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the titular months of his office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to each other.
He knew that to the eyes of all the policemen and strangers assembled Phineas Finn had been a hero, a Parliamentary hero, and he had been some poor outsider,--to be ejected at once should he make himself disagreeable to the Members.
And so the row was renewed and prolonged, and the gentlemen assembled, members and strangers together, passed a pleasant evening.
Some of the peers departed, and it was observed that a bishop or two left the House; but among the strangers in the gallery, hardly a foot of space was gained.
The dishes which the strangers touched turned to gold.
She set these before the strangers with all the good dishes that she had.
The idea of makingstrangers of us," protested Julia.
A lady may have twice that number of callers in an afternoon--quite as great strangers to all intents and purposes--and not even have the satisfaction of discovering that they had any object whatever in calling.
The hands of strangers were outstretched to bury them, for the hearts of others could only mourn for them, without claiming the poor remnants which were so unrecognizable.
A father calls out from a stretcher for a daughter whom strangers are taking in another direction, and becomes almost frantic with excitement until the girl is brought back to him.
Strangers meet him, and tell him it is all in vain; she was in that car, and no trace of her remains.
A beautiful lot had been chosen in the cemetery which overlooked the whole city, and there, among the sacred remains of their own beloved, the citizens resolved to place those who were indeed strangers to them, but whom somebody loved.
Strangers were there to lay him out, but the friends could only bury him.
A father rescued his little children, mere babies as they were, and placed them on the snow for strangers to take, and then returned for his wife.
On the night of the 16th the strangers and the Tzar's household, weary with wine and revelry, sought unsuspectingly their accustomed couches; otherwise "no one slept that night in Moskva.
Now during the first evening on board ship, strangers mostly remain strangers to each other; but next morning things become different--especially if the weather be fine, and everyone is on deck.
Most likely, if twostrangers were to arrive on a visit, they would put up at the inn; but very few people did go through--perhaps an occasional commercial traveller.
I really did think that when I could show you Mr. Bethune was ready to take money from strangers to go away from England you would change your opinion of him.
Lot was a man who could as little see strangers without inviting them to his house as Abraham could.
Nothing could well be more ordinary than the entrance to the city of two strangers at sunset.
To this he would have sacrificed everything--the rights of strangerswere to him truly inviolable.
So far as he is told it has a resemblance with any tastes whereof he has the ideas already in his memory, imprinted there by sensible objects, not strangers to his palate, so far may he approach that resemblance in his mind.
Why, man, unused to war or the precautions of a warrior, you must yet see that should this body be found here, there will be a hue and cry through the country, and that strangers like ourselves will be arrested on suspicion.
A grey-haired steward or major-domo inquired our business, and on learning that we wished to see the Duke in person, he told us that his Grace would give audience to strangers in the afternoon at half after three by the clock.
It is well always to be courteous to strangers and to give them information, but it is well also that the information should be false.
They have found cause for suspicion of the two strangers of the inn, but none of me.
Where, as in Sandbridge, they are always ready to welcome strangers cordially?
I'd be happier here with you than among strangers under any circumstances, even with my old home calling me and a good man to share it.
The strangers were, in fact, respectable citizens.
In the dusk of that evening, two strangerspenetrated into the mazes of the Ruelle Coutanchez.
In the afternoon, a little before tea-time, the door opened and two strangers entered, attired in black.
The nations which have erected a barrier against the outside world, refusing to mix or mingle with strangers and foreigners, have sunk into final decay or ruin.
A nation, in respect to citizenship, was looked upon as a family, and strangers were not admitted to the fold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strangers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
