"Foreigner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "A foreigner, I believe," said Mr. Scarrick, with a shortness that was entirely out of keeping with ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... age in a week or two, and it makes me quite nervous to think that other influences may prevent her keeping her promise to my boys. It is a mercy she did not marry some greedy foreigner while she was under age. Fortunately, men never seemed to ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... of the state—such was the suite which accompanied Politique before the queen; pamphlets, pasquinades, sarcastic songs on Marie Antoinette, whom no more the people called their queen, but already the foreigner, L'Autrichienne—such were the gifts which Politique brought ...
— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach
... long answer to the First Consul, which I translated for him. The English Minister refuted, with great force, all the arguments which Bonaparte had employed against the press. He also informed the First Consul that, though a foreigner, it was competent in him to institute a complaint in the courts of law; but that in such case he must be content to see all the scandalous statements of which he complained republished in the report of the trial. He advised him to treat the libels with profound contempt, and do as he and ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... legal existence. The rule was one of considerable importance to the Roman practitioner, who required to be reminded that, wherever Roman jurisprudence was assumed to conform itself exactly to the code of Nature, there was no difference in the contemplation of the Roman tribunals between citizen and foreigner, between freeman and slave, between Agnate and Cognate. The jurisconsults who thus expressed themselves most certainly never intended to censure the social arrangements under which civil law fell somewhat short of ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
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