Use stranger in a sentence
Sentences starting with stranger
- Stranger have pity on a poor friendless, homeless dog! [5]
- Stranger and far more awkward than this is the case mentioned in an ancient collection, where the subject of the antipathy fainted at the sight of any object of a red color. [6]
- Stranger things have happened. [6]
- Stranger things had happened, and grateful States had been known to reward benefactors. [9]
Sentences ending with stranger
- Stay and talk; you must tell me everything that's said and done --and about the stranger. [11]
- My love for you inspired me in all that I have done, and, now that I come to lay the result of my labors at your feet, you turn from me, and offer my reward to a stranger. [6]
- Nothing that I would not have done for the merest stranger. [9]
- He carried home with him a certain disquiet, to which he had been for months a stranger. [4]
- Them two men will tell how they heard the yells and rushed there just in time to not save the stranger. [5]
- I thought it very sociable in a stranger. [5]
- There was an undertone in the essay which was in keeping with the mode of life of the solitary stranger. [6]
- How do you treat the stranger? [4]
- This woodsman, this trapper, this hunter, this fisherman, this sitter on a log, and philosopher, was the real proprietor of the region over which he was ready to guide the stranger. [4]
- He said to Tracy briskly: "But a thousand pardons, dear sir, I am forgetting courtesies due to a guest and stranger. [5]
Short sentences using stranger
- The stranger smiled, too. [9]
- Did you see the stranger? [11]
- Who was this stranger? [9]
- Now unchain the stranger. [5]
- I kissed her--a stranger. [11]
- I am a stranger. [11]
- A stranger came next. [5]
- I'm a stranger here. [4]
- It's a stranger. [11]
Sentences containing stranger two or more times
- The German dictionary seems to make no distinction between a stranger and a foreigner; in its view a stranger is a foreigner--a sound position, I think. [5]
- Sir John Lubbock proved by many experiments that an ant knows a stranger ant of her own species in a moment, even when the stranger is disguised--with paint. [5]
- At any time, on any day, in any part of America, you can confer a happiness upon any passing stranger by calling his attention to any other passing stranger and saying: "Do you see that gentleman going along there? [5]
- The stranger had killed this man's friend in a fight, this man's Kentucky training made it a duty to kill the stranger for it. [5]
- If you get into conversation with a stranger and experience that natural desire to know what sort of ground you are treading on by finding out what manner of man your stranger is, strike out boldly and address him as "Captain. [5]
More example sentences with the word stranger in them
- Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
- Say, stranger, when your Mr. Temple smiled--" "He is the man! [9]
- In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
- This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
- Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
- No stranger puzzles you so much as the once close friend, with whose thinking and associates you have for years been unfamiliar. [4]
- But when he yielded to the impulse to read Wolff's letter again he felt like a dethroned prince whom some stranger, ignorant of his misfortune, praises for his mighty power. [10]
- Again in later years the two men met, the stranger the aggressor--without due cause. [11]
- It came this year just at the right moment, for here was a distinguished stranger visiting in the place. [6]
- The stranger was wounded in saving her. [11]
- You've done a wonder, Joe: you've written a letter that can be sent in to Livy--that doesn't often happen, when either a friend or a stranger writes. [5]
- The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. [2]
- At any rate, within five years from now there will be at least such a substantial ligament of buildings stretching between them and uniting them that a stranger will not be able to tell where the one Siamese twin leaves off and the other begins. [5]
- Beautiful, wild, invested with the mystery which belongs to untrodden spaces, and with enough of terror to give it dignity, it had yet closer relations with the town over which it brooded than the passing stranger knew of. [6]
- In an encounter with a stranger, not in the bill of fare, I had lost my scalp. [5]
- Presently a stranger with a long-tailed coat on came in, and not noticing Brown's hat, which was lying in a chair, sat down on it. [5]
- And privately I wished the stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of wheat on top of him. [5]
- He felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his eyes. [2]
- As for thy wife, I shall treat her as a stranger unless, as a prophetess, she summons me to announce a new message from the Lord. [10]
- Who in the wide world would come from under the respectable Ortlieb roof, at this hour, to tell a stranger anything whatsoever concerning one of its daughters? [10]
- He it was who, in sarcasm, had spoken of this young stranger as "The Man from Outside. [11]
- The proud woman, who was so cool in all the friendly relations of life, and who, as she felt was always watching her, was to her only a stranger who had her in her power. [10]
- Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
- For a crime which does not taint her purity our judges have to-day condemned to death a beautiful and spotless maiden--a stranger, and at the same time a Greek and a heretic Melchite. [10]
- At a place where there was a standin' stone I broke loose from three of 'em and come here over the mountains, and I ain't had nothin', stranger, but berries and chainey brier-root for ten days. [9]
- She knew not what was to be required of her, she was a stranger in a strange land; but persecution and exile had gone far to strengthen her spirit and greaten her composure. [11]
- All her sympathies were excited by the thought of this forlorn stranger in his solitude, but she felt the impossibility of giving any complete expression to them. [6]
- So Master Dick went off on his travels, which led him into strange places and stranger company. [6]
- Yet, peaceful as we were, it might have puzzled a stranger to see that all of us were armed--armed in this tenantless, lonely wilderness! [11]
- The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? [5]
- A distinguished stranger was to address the house. [5]
- The observant stranger was sure to be puzzled by the contrast of this realistic and uncouth exterior with the internal fineness, amounting to refinement and culture, that shone through it all. [4]
- One night he was sending his weather prognostications to Brisbane, when a stranger entered from the shore. [11]
- The calaboose victim was not a citizen; he was a poor stranger, a harmless whiskey-sodden tramp. [5]
- But here he was a stranger, at least on his professional rounds, and when he asked for Miss Euthymia the servant, who knew his face well, stared as if he had held in his hand a warrant for her apprehension. [6]
- The other stranger was a New Englander of respectable appearance, with a grave, hard, honest, hay-bearded face, who had come to serve the sick and wounded on the battle-field and in its immediate neighborhood. [6]
- But that stranger was a link in Caesar's life-chain, too; and a necessary one. [5]
- The stranger is warned against taking cold baths in India, but even the most intelligent strangers are fools, and they do not obey, and so they presently get laid up. [5]
- The stranger having warmly shaken Parpon by the hand and again whispered in his ear, stepped forward. [11]
- What a man wants to do, in talking with a stranger, is to get and to give as much of the best and most real life that belongs to the two talkers as the time will let him. [6]
- Did that stranger wait for the general judgment? [5]
- To-day John had voluntarily approached the stranger to whom he owed his life, but whose passionate caresses at their first meeting had frightened him, to show her the little wooden horse that Adrian had just given him. [10]
- The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract. [5]
- Nearly all of us have an antipathy to a stranger, even of our own nationality. [5]
- The animal walked up to the stranger in a very sociable fashion, and began making his acquaintance, after the usual manner of well-bred dogs; that is, with the courtesies and blandishments by which the canine Chesterfield is distinguished from the ill-conditioned cur. [6]
- Two huntsmen galloped up to the dogs; one in a red cap, the other, a stranger, in a green coat. [2]
- She is so unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! [2]
- Now to-day, about two hours ago, the dog barked, and an old man, a stranger, came up to me, and said he was Nebsecht's brother, and had a great deal of money in his charge for me. [10]
- The stranger spat twice, regarded Mr. Brice pityingly, and finally led him in silence past the picket fence and the New England-looking meeting-house opposite until they came to the great square on which the State House squatted. [9]
- Her son had turned his back on his parents' dwelling, and had gone out as a stranger among strangers. [10]
- It may be true that a book about this wild tract would not be recognized as complete without a lost-man story in it, since it is almost as easy for a stranger to get lost in the Adirondacks as in Boston. [4]
- It was a troubled reverie indeed, for Angele's eyes were on the stranger who was present with Sir Andrew Melvill the night before. [11]
- The first Italian town which the stranger sees he is sure to remember, the outdoor life of the people is so different from that at the North. [4]
- It was only too evident that he supposed her to be a total stranger. [10]
- I put it to you, sir, can both have happened to say the very same words to the stranger? [5]
- A stranger come to town, an' was seen with the preacher. [13]
- It was nothing to them that I, a stranger, must be sacrificed upon the altar of their unholy ambition. [5]
- He felt grateful to the stranger, who had given him, an opportunity of conferring a favor. [6]
- They often appeal to the stranger to know if the great world will not some day come to their relief and save them. [5]
- Gabord was taken to the hospital, and he swore that Englishman would not have got away if stranger had not fetched him a crack with a pistol-butt which sent him dumb and dizzy. [11]
- It is pitiable to see you, sir, a well-spoken and prepossessing stranger, making such an enormous pow-wow here about a subject concerning which your ignorance is perfectly humiliating! [5]
- Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you! [5]
- I am going to force my way into the house with you--you found me in the street, an old man, a total stranger, and appealed to me for help. [10]
- And it came to be noised abroad that the stranger talked as well as the Cure and better than the Notary. [11]
- There ain't nothin' to be afeard of, eh, stranger? [9]
- What also conduced to Bagration's being selected as Moscow's hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city and was a stranger there. [2]
- For the first time he appeared to her definitely as a stranger; as much a stranger as the man who came once a week to wind Mrs. Forsythe's clocks. [9]
- Mrs. Richards peeped through the shutters, then went and received the envelope, and the stranger disappeared without a word. [5]
- There was something thrilling about it, to a stranger, not to say awe inspiring. [5]
- How wonderful, she thought, to be able to dwell in such a beautiful place, to have as friends and companions such amusing and intelligent people as the stranger with whom she had talked! [9]
- Melissa felt as though she was gazing on the face of a stranger, for, though his eyelids still quivered, his eyes were bright with ecstatic fire and his features looked more youthful. [10]
- The stranger gave those people his confidence, and they dishonorably treated him in return. [5]
- He had not this stranger at any particular advantage, as he had wished, he knew scarcely why. [11]
- He must, I think, have reasoned to himself in a rapid and unconscious manner, that movement without any apparent cause indicated the presence of some strange living agent, and that no stranger had a right to be on his territory. [1]
- Now you would think that the first thing the king would do after listening to such a novelette from an entire stranger, would be to ask for credentials--yes, and a pointer or two as to locality of castle, best route to it, and so on. [5]
- Philip noticed, as they fronted each other for an instant and the stranger raised his hat, that his hands and feet were smaller than usually accompany such a large frame. [4]
- But stranger than these repetitions are the coincidences one finds in the manners and speech of antiquity and our own time. [6]
- I was joined there by a stranger, who dropped into conversation with me--a brisk young fellow, who said he was born in a town in the interior of Wisconsin, and had never seen a steamboat until a week before. [5]
- About this time there arrived in Virginia a dissolute stranger with a literary turn of mind--rather seedy he was, but very quiet and unassuming; almost diffident, indeed. [5]
- There you have the wily Boeotain and the wily Jim Smiley waiting--two thousand years apart--and waiting, each equipped with his frog and 'laying' for the stranger. [5]
- The captain of the whip-bearers went up to their commander, and, seconded by the shouts of the crowd, begged him to escort the stranger to the palace. [10]
- He said that the watchman was outside the door, and that in the house were none but the family and the stranger. [5]
- The fingers of the two men met in the flicker of flames, a sort of bond by fire, and the stranger raised the flask. [11]
- She soon saw the tops of the palms and sycamores in their own garden, her faithful old dog Melas barked with delight, and the happiness which the meeting with the stranger had for a moment interrupted revived with unchecked glow. [10]
- All this time the stranger stood impassively chewing his cigar, his hand against the tree-box. [9]
- All at once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former position with his eyes shut. [2]
- At this time the stranger came. [11]
- As Melitta and the stranger came nearer she thrust her little head through the roses to hear what the handsome youth was saying so kindly in his broken Greek. [10]
- To a stranger the season might have seemed at its height. [11]
- Elizabeth had left the presence-chamber without so much as a glance at him, though she had turned and looked graciously at the stranger. [11]
- Another stranger, by the name of Thompson, left me a mere wreck and ruin of chaotic rags. [5]
- And so was the name of Robert Hardy--Robert Hardy, the stranger, the despised. [5]
- I said to the murderer: "Sir, you are a stranger to me, but you have done me a kindness this day which I can never forget. [5]
- At three in the morning he again returned to the stove and sat down by a stranger. [5]
- Her agitation was the more intense because she never permitted herself to talk of him to others, even when his name was discussed at dinner-tables, accompanied by strange legends of his origin and stranger romances regarding his call to power by Kaid. [11]
- The intimacy among the different members of the society was so close that, beyond a courtesy of manner that never failed, the tendency was to resist the approach of any stranger as a 'gene'. [6]
- The gold and the diamonds have brought the godless stranger within his gates, also contamination and broken repose, and he wishes that they had never been discovered. [5]
- The palace on the Dam (square) is a square, stately edifice, and the only building that the stranger will care to see. [4]
- As he entered the chamber but now, there flashed into his mind the scene six years ago when, an absolute stranger, he had stepped into this Eastern salon, and had heard his name called out to the great throng: "Claridge efendi! [11]
- As I laid the book down there was a knock at the door, and my stranger came in. [5]
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