Epilepsy, then, is sometimes their mode of escape from the terrors of an utterly foreign world.

So utterly alone and lonely among such uncongenial surroundings with people uncouth and totally foreign to his tastes.

Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns.

When you first came to me your accent was distinctly foreign, French or Italian.

We were so mutually foreign and disinterested, so at the opposite ends of life, that he had nothing to gain and I nothing to lose, and I could have permitted to this sage ruin of a male almost a confessor's freedom.

With a boldness strangely foreign to Hebrew thought, he charges Jehovah with injustice and speaks of him as a cruel monster that watches man, his helpless prey, and takes cruel pleasure in the pain which he inflicts.

Fines were exacted from any person declining to go to Palestine; and foreign merchantsespecially the Jewswere required to subscribe large sums.

" "Au contraire, monsieur, let me demonstrate how to lose," answered Craig with a smile that showed a row of faultless teeth beneath his black moustache, decidedly foreign.

" This was done: the instrument devised in legal and minute form all the property, real and personal, to Giulletta Corellia natural-born subject of his majesty, it appeared, though of foreign parentage, and of partially foreign education.

Clouds must mean moisture; some inner, watered plain wholly foreign to the general character of the Arabian Peninsula.

In thus enumerating the conditions favourable to the spread of Gottico-Tedesco, I am far from wishing to assert that this style was purely foreign.

The lively emotion provoked by the "Nouvelle Héloïse" is scarcely more foreign to our ideas and experience than the triangular fit of weeping in the parlor, and the dinner, silent through excess of feeling, that followed it.

In this Thought there is nothing but what doth Honour to these glorified Spirits; provided still it be remembred, that their Desire of more proceeds not from their disrelishing what they possess; and the Pleasure of a new Enjoyment is not with them measured by its Novelty (which is a thing merely foreign and accidental) but by its real intrinsick Value.

There was something delightfully foreign and picturesque to our town ideas in the heap of logs that Karl carried up in a great panier and piled at the side of the hearth.

Those of you who have read the last two chapters of Mr. Bradley's wonderful book, 'Appearance and reality,' will remember what an elaborately foreign aspect his absolute is finally made to assume.

In one sense this is a far-fetched and rather childish objection, for so much of the history of the finite is as formidably foreign to us as the static absolute can possibly bein fact that entity derives its own foreignness largely from the bad character of the finite which it simultaneously isthat this sentimental reason for preferring the pluralistic view seems small.

My brain has been thinking inarticulately perhaps, all these years: and the English words and letters, as they now stand written, have rather an improbable and foreign air to me, as a Greek or Russian book might look to a man who has not so long been learning those languages as to forget the impossibly foreign impression received from them on the first day of tackling them.

Moreover, above the delicate charm of sex, these little creatures are so remote and primitive in race and idea, so intrinsically foreign and undevelopedthat one leaves the fairest with a mitigated pang... Bedient never repeated an action which once had brought home to him the sense of his own evil.