Strangers

Examples

• I am not under the slightest obligation to go to India, especially with strangers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Perhaps, said Darcy, I should have judged better, had I sought an introduction; but I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When the hour came for locking up, he supposed all strangers to be excluded for the night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Her fingers and mine can never be strangers more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They are strangers, he said, to the words of which you speak. Plato. The Republic.
• But they were strangers to our house; and Penelope doubted, in Rosanna's present state, whether strangers might not do her more harm than good. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The heat of the sun on the vessel was excessive, the company strangers to me, and not very agreeable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As a general thing, strangers who crawl in there to sleep do not get up until they are called. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Besides, if I was obliged to speak, I should say I was not fond of strangers coming into a town. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But this going to make acquaintance with strangers was a very different thing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Ours is a Copious Language, and Trying to Strangers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They were strangers--emissaries from the large towns. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mrs. Bute certainly thought herself one of the most virtuous women in England, and the sight of her happy family was an edifying one to strangers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I took refuge once more in the explanatory phrases with which I had prepared myself to meet the curiosity of strangers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I would have taken my leave for the night, but he would not hear of my doing that until the strangers' bell should ring. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This from me may appear to strangers like personal pique, but all who know me will acquit me of having ever, in my life, coveted the society of fools. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• So would you, if a flock of strangers came in on you when you were preparing for an examination next day, and every moment was of value. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was not let in again to see her, no more was the housemaid, for the reason that she was not to be disturbed by strangers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We are not strangers, we are neighbors, and you needn't think you'd be a bother. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Georgy went into the reception-room and saw two strangers, whom he looked at with his head up, in his usual haughty manner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The young ladies, as well as their mother, were perfectly satisfied with having two entire strangers of the party, and wished for no more. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• We neither of us perform to strangers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Strangers don't discriminate: how should they? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Talking of her deceased husband perpetually, this good lady never mentioned to strangers that he WAS deceased. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Lots of strangers are here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Edited by Bryan