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Sentences ending with alien

Of course it was her imagination, but it was like a voice which came from some desolate place, distant, arid and alien. [11]
We belonged; he was an alien. [11]
Countess Mary was jealous of this passion of her husband's and regretted that she could not share it; but she could not understand the joys and vexations he derived from that world, to her so remote and alien. [2]
They looked at him and at his shoes mistrustfully, as at an alien. [2]
Is he ever anything but a sort of tolerated, criticised, or admired alien? [4]

More example sentences with the word alien in them

A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
He was experiencing what one or another drowsing, geographically ignorant alien experiences every day in the year when he turns a dull and indifferent eye out of the car window and it falls upon a certain station-sign which reads "Stratford-on-Avon! [5]
My story was well advanced before Hawthorne's wonderful "Marble Faun," which might be thought to have furnished me with the hint of a mixed nature,--human, with an alien element,--was published or known to me. [6]
Of all human weaknesses, not one had been more alien than cowardice to the man whose recklessness had led him to many an unprecedented venture. [10]
The bitter controversies, wars, and persecutions which have raged in its name are utterly alien to its being. [9]
One is likely to remain in the inmost recesses of his heart an alien, and as a final expression of his feeling to hoist the green flag, or the dragon, or the cross of St. George. [4]
Arsenic-eating may seem to improve the condition of horses for a time,--and even of human beings, if Tschudi's stories can be trusted,--but it soon appears that its alien qualities are at war with the animal organization. [3]
For the first time, he took certain precautions with reference to his diet, such as were quite alien to his common habits. [6]
It was as though the business before him was wholly alien to him, as though he were held there against his will, but would go on with his task bitterly to the bitter end. [11]
To these men this was in one sense an alien country. [11]
What becomes of these alien substances after they get into the system we cannot always tell. [3]
The rear of the tenement-houses showed him the picturesqueness of clothes-lines fluttering far aloft, as in Florence; and the new apartment-houses, breaking the old sky-line with their towering stories, implied a life as alien to the American manner as anything in continental Europe. [8]
The view of the strange city with its peculiar architecture, such as he had never seen before, filled Napoleon with the rather envious and uneasy curiosity men feel when they see an alien form of life that has no knowledge of them. [2]
Anger, distrust, wretchedness, the spirit of the alien, loneliness, were alive in him. [11]
It may take the place of something worse, the wretchedness of a mind not yet dethroned, but subject to the perpetual interferences of another mind governed by laws alien and hostile to its own. [6]
She had heard the alien spoken well of by some people; others had seemed indignant that the Armours should try to push "a red woman" into English society. [11]
It seemed strange that such a little thing should make a change, introduce an alien element into this domestic peace. [4]
You can say that he is your brother, to do what you like with him, but the alien hand might inflict an incurable hurt on his tender heart. [5]
You--you blundering alien, spy, and seducer! [11]
He would not spoil the development of the drama, of which he now held the fluttering prologue, by any blunt treatment; he would touch this and that nerve gently to see what past connection there was between: "These dim blown birds beneath an alien sky. [11]
Certainly Tralee was some distance from the town, but, apart from that, the new- comers remained incongruous, alien and alone. [11]
Julie, with whom she had corresponded for the last five years, was in Moscow, but proved to be quite alien to her when they met. [2]
He carried his resolution within himself in terror and haste, like something dreadful and alien to him, for, after the previous night's experience, he was afraid of losing it. [2]
Having been taken prisoner and allowed his beard to grow, he seemed to have thrown off all that had been forced upon him--everything military and alien to himself--and had returned to his former peasant habits. [2]
We buried the poor fellow in the alien ground, for he did not die in the Church, and after that my daughter clung to Mrs. Clive. [9]
Three or four policemen fought their way to the spot, striving to clear the tracks, bewildered and impotent in the face of the alien horde momentarily growing more and more conscious of power. [9]
English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions--we shoveled them all into the English fences according to their dates. [5]
There were evening parties, too, where I felt like an alien, though my friends were guilty of no conscious neglect; and had I been able to accept the situation simply, I should not have suffered. [9]
They sat homesick on their alien crags, and day by day gazed out through their tears over the sea with unappeasable longing toward the hazy bulk which was the specter of what had been their paradise; one by one their hearts broke and they died. [5]
The deep instincts of womanhood were striving to grope their way to the surface of her being through all the alien influences which overlaid them. [6]
Under the weight of the thought she was likely to forget that the young alien wife might have lost terribly in the event also. [11]
Under the influence of alien elements who, though their co-operation was directed against the common enemy, were intensely irritating, the meeting became disorderly. [11]
It seemed alien now, external, unsympathetic. [4]
The two young men looked each other straight in the eyes, both full of youthful life, but one of frank and fearless aspect, the other with a dangerous feline beauty alien to the New England half of his blood. [6]
But even the loveliest prospect would not have induced Barbara to open her eyes, for the indignation which overpowered her had increased to fierce rage, blended with a fear usually alien to her courageous soul. [10]
All the unaccountable looks and tastes and ways of Elsie came back to her in the light of an ante-natal impression which had mingled an alien element in her nature. [6]
But what is known as industrialism brought in its train fear and favour, privilege and poverty, slums, disease, and municipal vice, fostered a too rapid immigration, established in America a tenant system alien to our traditions. [9]
Mercury, for instance, is alien to the system, and eminently disturbing in its influence. [3]
Jasmine had no inkling as to what the meaning of the words was; and, with something of her old desire to conquer those who were alien to her, she smiled winningly. [11]
Do not dabble in the muddy sewer of politics, nor linger by the enchanted streams of literature, nor dig in far-off fields for the hidden waters of alien sciences. [3]
True, few know how to practise this art at your age, and it is alien to many all their lives. [10]
For a full hour or more she slept, then there crept through the fantasies of sleep something that did not belong to sleep--again something from the wakeful world, strange, alien, troubling. [11]
There shot through him the strangest feeling that if she were his, he would be linked with something alien to the world of which he was. [11]
He brought with him into our rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was so alien to us. [2]
As at a great opera, a sensitive spirit loses itself in visions alien to the music and yet born of it, so she, lost in this primeval scene before her, saw visions of things to be. [11]
There is no galvanism in kiss-your-brother; it is copper against copper: but alien bloods develop strange currents, when they flow close to each other, with only the films that cover lip and cheek between them. [6]
New South Wales furnishes for Broken Hill and sends her Judges 2,000 miles--mainly through alien countries--to administer it, but Adelaide takes the dividends and makes no moan. [5]
Once, when I found Ann with the old woman from whom she had formerly been so alien, they were sitting together in the window-bay with their arms about each other, and looking in each other's face with loving but tearful eyes. [10]
His life, his fortune for Egypt, a country alien to him, which he had never seen till six months ago! [11]
Property, that sacred fabric of government, had been attacked and destroyed, law had been defied, and yet the City Hall, the sanctuary of American tradition, was turned over to the alien mob for a continuous series of mass meetings. [9]
Thus the alien elements, those which do not properly enter into the composition of any living tissue, are the most to be suspected, --mercury, lead, antimony, silver, and the rest, for the reasons I have before mentioned. [3]
Instead of Greek, Egyptian, and Syrian faces, fair and dark visages of alien appearance were seen. [10]
The household was divided into two alien and hostile camps, who changed their habits for his sake and only met because he was there. [2]
Now this world disconcerted him no longer and was no longer alien to him, but he himself having entered it found in it a new enjoyment. [2]
It is further directed that whenever any order shall be made affecting the personal liberty of an alien reports of the same and of the causes thereof shall be made to the War Department for the consideration of the Department of State. [7]
But South Australia deserves much, for apparently she is a hospitable home for every alien who chooses to come; and for his religion, too. [5]
Nothing more alien could come into the New England life than this tatterdemalion band. [4]
But when it comes to substances alien to the healthy system, which never belong to it as normal constituents, the case is very different. [3]
The pastor slumbers by the Rhine, --In alien earth the exiles lie, --Their nameless graves our holiest shrine, His words our noblest battle-cry! [6]
What is it but to carry union through Thoughts alien to thoughts kindred, and to merge The lines of colour that should not diverge, And give the sun a window to shine through! [11]
The habit has been very general with well-taught practitioners, to have recourse to the introduction of these alien elements into the system on the occasion of any slight disturbance. [3]
It would have been to die as a nation of freemen, and to have given all we had left of our rights into the hands of alien tyrants in league with home-bred traitors. [6]
Therefore you shall be kept safe where no alien hands may reach you. [11]
He reached out and took her hand with a strange shyness, and a self- consciousness which was alien to his nature. [11]
Her features bore an impress of resolution usually alien to them; nay, the firmly compressed lips gave them an expression of actual sternness. [10]
He began, after an awkward pause, "You would not have me stay in a communion which I feel to be alien to the true church, would you? [6]
I am not an alien, but at home. [5]
And when an alien observer turns his telescope upon us--advertisedly in our own special interest--a natural apprehension moves us to ask, What is the diameter of his reflector? [5]
And the excited, alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, and running so lightly, frightened Rostov. [2]
It imagined an alien element introduced into the blood of a human being before that being saw the light. [6]
In obedience to a growing perception that dominion and exploitation are incompatible with and detrimental to our system of government, we fought in good faith to gain self-determination for an alien people. [9]
It was not a great while before the two parties in that wearing conflict of alien lives, which is often called education, began to measure their strength against each other. [6]
But not beneath a graven stone, To plead for tears with alien eyes; A slender cross of wood alone Shall say, that here a maiden lies In peace beneath the peaceful skies. [6]
I, v. 25) "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto," which Donner translates literally: "I am human, nothing that is human can I regard as alien to me. [10]

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