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Example sentences for "utter stranger"

  • Mr. Manning handled the book with the stern impartiality which gave such value to his criticisms--treating it as if it had been written by an utter stranger.

  • I came, an utter stranger, into your house, and you kindly made me one of the family circle.

  • An utter stranger to fashionable conventionality and latitudinarian ethics, it was no marvel that the child stared and shivered when she saw the laws of God vetoed, and was blandly introduced to murder as Honorable Satisfaction.

  • To define what it is, would be as difficult to the most renowned of its votaries, as to an utter stranger to its attributes.

  • It was the honour of an utter stranger he was protecting, as helpless as she was unknown at the time she excited his interest; nor had he even in view this poor mede he now receives of her thanks!

  • Orkborne he was an utter stranger; but Camilla had recourse to her fan to conceal a smile; and Eugenia was in the utmost confusion.

  • Now, how strong the motions or passions of love are, who is there that is an utter stranger thereto?

  • This is Satan's master argument; thou art a horrible sinner, a hypocrite, one that has a profane heart, and one that is an utter stranger to a work of grace.

  • How easy then must his victory have been over an innocent, unsuspecting country damsel, flushed with the warmth of youth, and an utter stranger to the ways of life!

  • But his startled manner caused her to lift her face from under his side-whiskers; and though the dusk was deepening, she could see that her arms were around an utter stranger.

  • I shall only be an intruder; and besides, as an utter stranger, I have no right to stay.

  • A Man who can once doubt whether he should rejoice in his Friends being happier than himself, may depend upon it that he is an utter Stranger to this Virtue.

  • SIR, It is so many Years since you left your native Country, that I am to tell you the Characters of your nearest Relations as much as if you were an utter Stranger to them.

  • You would give your own name to me, an utter stranger?

  • She openly railed at her husband for risking his life for an utter stranger.

  • She spoke and looked as if he were an utter stranger.

  • I've had a letter from an utter stranger, asking me to come and visit.

  • Such a pitiful little funeral, and he an utter stranger, too!

  • For some reason he could not bear to say he was an utter stranger to the lonely girl.

  • SIR, 'I am a Man in Years, and by an honest Industry in the World have acquired enough to give my Children a liberal Education, tho' I was an utter Stranger to it my self.

  • He is an utter Stranger to the pleasing Reflections in the Evening of a well-spent Day, or the Gladness of Heart or Quickness of Spirit in the Morning after profound Sleep or indolent Slumbers.

  • I assured him, I was such an utter stranger in London, that I did not believe I could borrow a guinea if my life depended upon it.

  • I thanked him for his compliment, and, professing myself an utter stranger in this part of the world, begged he would have the goodness to inform me of the quality and characters of the people who dined above.

  • This was a task to which he was by no means equal, being entirely ignorant, not only of the judge's disposition, but also of the ways of men in general, to which his education on board had kept him an utter stranger.

  • I would not," she replied, "do Sir Launcelot Greaves the injury to suppose him capable of imposition; but you talk of things to which I am an utter stranger.

  • The success of our adventurer, which we have particularised in the last chapter, could not fail of enhancing his character, not only among those who knew him, but also among the people of the town to whom he was not an utter stranger.

  • Why, that young man there is an utter stranger," she felt.

  • Besides, I've grown to be an utter stranger here.

  • The young man who, like herself, had been watching the squirrels play and was still standing half-concealed behind the trunk, his hat in his hand, was an utter stranger.

  • How could he answer such questions about an utter stranger, and yet how could he not answer them, under the circumstances?

  • Of course it is unpleasant to confide in an utter stranger.

  • I shall never cease to thank you for your kindness to an utter stranger.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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