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Example sentences for "the stranger"

  • Rappaccini had finished his labors in the garden, or that his watchful eye had caught the stranger's face, he now took his daughter's arm and retired.

  • Amid the general admiration excited by the stranger's appearance, there were only two dissenting voices.

  • The stranger's character and office are evident enough.

  • The German having told him how matters were arranged, the stranger made a profound bow to Tant Sannie and followed his host, who led the way to his own little room.

  • The stranger rose, shook the dust from his sleeve, and ashamed at his own earnestness, looked across the bushes for his horse.

  • The next moment the stranger was surprised by a sudden movement on the part of the fellow, which brought him close to the stranger's feet.

  • The stranger nodded, while the fellow sought for something more to relate.

  • She sat in her chair, and peeped between her crossed fingers at the stranger's back.

  • The stranger's mule moved on at so slow a rate, that he heard every word of the dispute, not only betwixt the centinel and the drummer, but betwixt the trumpeter and trumpeter's wife.

  • Nor are they any," said I; "but what makes you think that the stranger is a Woman?

  • With a mocking laugh, the Stranger appeared in the other corner of the room, and at the same time the tablet appeared upon the floor.

  • I became impatient, and was about to summon Antonio, when he made his appearance, but unaccompanied by the stranger.

  • Upon hearing this, I instantly went up to the stranger, and accosted him in the Greek language, in which, though I speak it very ill, I can make myself understood.

  • I passed through the square of the Constitution, which presents nothing particular to the eye of the stranger, and ascended the hill to obtain a nearer view of the castle.

  • My companion was some little way behind at the moment, and when the gentle aborigine saw the stranger he stared hard for a moment, then, turning on his heels, with extraordinary swiftness flung at me half a pound of hard flint stone.

  • The stranger seemed to speculate on this for a time, and then he said, "I cannot fathom your meaning, sir.

  • The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment.

  • And so was the name of Robert Hardy--Robert Hardy, the stranger, the despised.

  • Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

  • Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.

  • Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God.

  • The stranger turned to the Thenardier, without quitting his chair.

  • The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming spectacle.

  • This gesture, and an inspection of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thenardier passed in review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the gruff mien to reappear.

  • The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not receive me either.

  • The prince lamented his lot, but it was no use; and at the end of three years he was released and had to go to the house of the stranger, who was really the king of a neighbouring country, and be his servant.

  • At the end of a year, the stranger arrived to claim his property, and took away the little girl, believing her to be the true child of the king.

  • The stranger looked at the sack of peas, and said, 'But you must possess something; you are carrying this sack, which seems to be very heavy.

  • I must beg you to forgive my intrusion," the stranger went on.

  • Mrs. Gle narm's plump face turned on the stranger with a dawning expression of surprise.

  • The stranger at the house looked at the two women, and whispered again.

  • They all alike went on with their reading without noticing the entrance of the stranger.

  • The manufacturer, Mr. Wilson, from the time of the entrance of the stranger, had regarded him with an air of disturbed and uneasy curiosity.

  • Now's your time," said Haley, taking the sleeping child up, and handing him to the stranger.

  • Some wandering speculations relative to the fashion of the stranger's boots, got into Mr Willet's mind by some accident or other, but they got out again in a hurry, and left him in his former state.

  • The stranger suffered a short pause to elapse, and then asked abruptly, 'What do you mean?

  • Castanier turned away, took up fifty packets each containing ten thousand francs in bank-notes, and held them out to the stranger, receiving in exchange for them a bill accepted by the Baron de Nucingen.

  • The intolerable glitter of the stranger's eyes produced a vivid and unpleasant impression, which was only deepened by the rigid outlines of his features.

  • A sort of convulsive tremor ran through him as he saw a red gleam in the stranger's eyes when they fell on the forged signature on the letter of credit.

  • No words could have replied more fully nor more peremptorily than that scornful and imperial curl of the stranger's lips.

  • The stranger wrote John Melmoth, then he returned the slip of paper and the pen to the cashier.

  • The stranger's countenance still wore a smile, which seemed to shed a yellow luster all about the room, and gleamed on little Marygold's image, and on the other objects that had been transmuted by the touch of Midas.

  • I had snatched a view of the stranger's countenance.

  • My attention was, in a few minutes, recalled by the stranger, who returned with the empty cup in his hand.

  • It is impossible to describe the emotions of the stranger, when he fixed his eyes upon my companion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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