Which preposition to use with strangers
He's a stranger to me.
Particular attention has been recently directed toward an announcement made in a Cleveland paper to the effect that "Two widow ladies, strangers in Cleveland, wish to form the acquaintance of a limited number of gentlemen with a view to happy results.
"And was it nothing to protect a stranger from a strange land, when you had nothing to gain from it and everything to lose?" "Mademoiselle forgets," I said, "that I had nothing to lose.
The first few weeks of W.'s ministry were very trying to meI went to see so many people,so many people came to see me,all strangers with whom I had nothing in common.
The barking of the dogs had not only announced the mission to the travellers, but to the mission a stranger at the gates.
And as these epistles were reading, there came other messengers out of Galilee who informed him that the inhabitants of Ptolemais, and of Tyre and Sidon, and strangers of Galilee, were gotten together.
I also felicitated the stranger on his appointment.
for I should be glad to hear; for scarcely any citizen of Phlius ever visits Athens now, nor has any stranger for a long time come from thence, who was able to give us a clear account of the particulars, except that he died from drinking poison; but he was unable to tell us anything more.
McGinty seemed more inclined to share his luck with strangers than with the men he had wintered amongst.
The man was sore harassed by the King's Government on one side and the Virginian Council on the other, and he treated every stranger as a foe.
It suddenly occurred to him that he had instructions not to allow any stranger into the house, and police instructions at such a time were of a nature which classed a friend of the family as a stranger.
It was that he found himself a stranger among the fellow-beings he had come to meet.
"Now," said Mr. Fairfield, "there are two guest-chambers to be furnished; the one you call Marian's room, and the other for the general stranger within our gates.
Every now and then Bennett, to call the stranger by what was almost confessedly a nom-de-guerre, flashed a powerful electric torch on the roadway.
The nurse would undoubtedly give me the information I desired, but, kind as she had been, I dreaded to consult a stranger about matters which involved my very existence and every remaining hope.
"Would a man go among strangers without arms?"
Indeed, we are verging so fast to destruction that I am feeling that sense to which I have been a stranger until within these three months.
But such beasts are sure to be expensive in these parts, especially to a stranger like me.
This work being over, I proposed to spend a few weeks with my family at North Platte, for the purpose of making their better acquaintance, for my long and continued absence from home made me a comparative stranger under my own roof-tree.
Deathe is no stranger unto me, I have The doubtfull hazard in twelve Battailes throwne;
He appears to take a pleasure in exaggerating the prejudices of strangers against him; a pride in confirming the prepossessions of friends.
" The miners lounging at the bar and sitting at the faro-tables looked up laughing, and seeing the strangers through the smoke-haze, stopped laughing to stare.
Every traveller almost forms a different opinion, and frequently the very opposite estimate, respecting the strangers amongst whom he is sojourning.
" With a great air of having done the fatherly and found out about this stranger before bringing him into the home, Dwight now related a number of stray circumstances dropped by Cornish in their chance talks.
As neither of his present visitors was a stranger beneath the roof of the Signor Gradenigofor so the proprietor of the palace was calledthey ascended its massive stairs, without pausing to consider any of those novelties of construction that would attract the eye of one unaccustomed to such a dwelling.