426 Verbs to Use for the Word stranger

We saw, naturally, all the distinguished strangers who passed through Paris that year of 1878.

"What's in the brown bag?" asked the stranger lightly and urbanely.

As he rushed down the main staircase to the library, where his check-book and some ready cash were locked in the safe, he met a stranger who had just been admitted and shown into the room.

"Well, I rather think I have," coolly replied the stranger, whose words conveyed a double meaning, as we soon learned.

And above all the gladness she had felt, and all her pleasure in what she had seen, and more happy even than the meeting with those she loved most, was her happiness how, as she went along as light as the breeze to receive the strangers.

Comfort I find a stranger to my heart, Nor canst thou ought of that but thus impart; Thou shouldst with joy a death to him procure, Who by it leaves Alcippus' life secure.

He was disposed to be more sociable than at Venice or Ravenna, and occasionally entertained strangers; but his intimate acquaintanceship was confined to Captain Williams and his wife, and Shelley's cousin, Captain Medwin.

"I should have said the same yesterday," returned the stranger.

Kate instantly divined that he had been warning the landlady against admitting strangers to the sick man's room.

muttered the man who had brought the strangers in, half under his breath; then aloud he added, "Shut up, good mother: remember, we have visitors; and one a man of property, who will hardly sympathize with our poverty.

"I was feeling a stranger in a strange land as I came up that path.

"Monsieur," she said at length, "it is a terrible story I have to relate, and it is difficult for me to tell a stranger what I know.

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.

As I spoke of the strong and general Canadian feeling of loyalty to the English Crown and connection, a Yankee bystander observed "Wal, stranger, I reckon we could take 'em if we wanted tu!"

He leaves the two strangers, as Indian hospitality ordains, to the warmest places in the best hut, with two young squaws, one old one, and five children, all sleeping together on the floor, as a matter of course.

He eagerly explained the situation to the Tyee, who welcomed the strangers with grave politeness.

" "Quarrel?" exclaimed the stranger, "no quarrel, quotha?

" "Aye, so thou shalt, sweet youth," cried the stranger, clapping him upon the shoulder, "yet not now, for I must begone, yet shall I return.

I then saw in my dream that they went on until they came into a certain country, whose air naturally tended to make one drowsy, if he came a stranger into it.

Thrice Robin Hood struck the stranger; once upon the arm and twice upon the ribs, and yet had he warded all the other's blows, only one of which, had it met its mark, would have laid stout Robin lower in the dust than he had ever gone before.

As he greeted the two strangers, and said simply that he had just arrived, himself, by way of the Anvik portage, the Colonel felt that he must have meant from New York or from Paris instead of the words he added, "from St. Michael's.

"Say, whatsa matter with you?" demanded the stranger, leaning back against the gate and spreading his long arms along the top bar.

The text that I took, as the best to be found in such a hurry, was the following:"Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

They took the stranger to Edwards's vacant room, where Trendon was closeted with him for half an hour.

Let any one try to "copy" the wife or brother he knows so well,to make a human image which shall speak and act so as to impress strangers with a belief in its truth,and he will then see that the much-despised reliance on actual experience is not the mechanical procedure it is believed to be.

426 Verbs to Use for the Word  stranger