"Stranger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... home, and went on a visit to one of the small towns in Zealand. The whole community knew of the arrival of the stranger, and who he was. There was a party given on his account by one of the richest families in the place; every one who was anybody, or had anything, was invited; it was quite an event, and the whole town ...
— The Sand-Hills of Jutland • Hans Christian Andersen
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... these changes in a manner that surprised herself. He had become a stranger to her, a stranger whose mind and heart were closed to her. She constantly thought about it, asking herself how it was that after having met, loved, married in an impulse of affection, they should all at once find ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
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... intricate combination of narrow roads passing through the country, winding and turning among oaks and other large timber, just like pathways cut through a forest. They wind and turn in so singular a manner, and resemble each other so much, that a stranger would have difficulty to make way amongst them. We visited Moor Park (not the house of Sir William Temple, but that where the Duke and Duchess of Monmouth lived). Having rather a commanding situation, you look down on the valley, which, being divided ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
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... how simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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... sweet Invention well deserue: Then he (no lesse) which hath translated it, Which doth his sense, his forme, his phrase, obserue. And in true method of his home-borne stile, (Following the fashion of a French conceate) Hath brought him heere into this famous Ile, Where but a stranger, now hath made his seate. He liues a Prince, and comming in this sort, Shall to his ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton
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