29 ) relates how the Christians, having assembled in Rome to elect a new bishop, saw a dove alight upon the head of Fabian, a layman and stranger to the city, who was thus marked out for this dignity and was at once proclaimed bishop by acclamation, although there were several famous men among the candidates for the vacant position.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

In this dream, according to Bede, a stranger told Edwin that power would be his in the future when someone laid a hand on his head.

The American flag at the head of the caravan told of the nationality of the stranger.

The stranger is a tall, limping, left-handed man who smokes cigars ( Watson having helped Holmes deduce the killer's left-handed nature because the victim was struck neatly on the left side of the head from behind where a right-handed man would have struck him on the other side ).

* Miss Spider-An anthropomorphic female spider not unlike the Ladybug in personality and generally friendly and decent in manner, described by Dahl as having " a large, black and murderous-looking head, which to a stranger was probably the most terrifying of all ".

No toad had ever sported those writhing sensory tendrils sprouting from the side of the head, like golden angleworm-sideburns, though, and when he opened his mouth, the factor displayed a most untoadlike triple array of slicing teeth and stranger, less comprehensible mouth parts .” And: “ He -- at least Jaime assumed it was a he, though he knew very little about Tolun biology — wore an ornately patterned robe or cloak, a jarring mix of reds, pinks, and aqua colors that, no doubt, was pleasing to Tolun visual senses but for humans was downright painful .” The Tolun are sharp traders and always desire to learn new technologies even though their own is estimated to be considerably more advanced than present human technologies.

On the eve of the battle of Issus ( 333BCE ), Alexander's biographers say, Alexander the Great was shown what the locals purported to be the tomb of Sardanapalus at Anchialus in Cilicia, with a relief carving of the king clapping his hands over his head and an inscription that the locals translated for him as " Sardanapalus, son of Anakyndaraxes, built Anchialus and Tarsus in a single day ; stranger, eat, drink and make love, as other human things are not worth this " ( signifying the clap of the hands ).

In Canada, advice columnist Mary Beeckman pointed out in 1948 that the head waiter would generally ask a patron before seating a stranger at his or her table, but that refusal to do so would be regarded as " stuffy and selfish ".

Could this seemingly innocent stranger be the eponymous killer?

At the train station Carol is left alone and decides to put the bag with the robbery cash in a locker but the seemingly gallant stranger ( Richard Bright ) who assists her is in fact a con man who steals the bag.

Eventually, he gets together a mismatched group with seemingly no musical talent, led by mysterious stranger Joey " The Lips " Fagan, who claims to have played trumpet with Joe Tex and the Four Tops.

Captain Tench remarked that he was seemingly a stranger and little acquainted with Bennelong and Colebee.

Knife, not knowing who the unnamed stranger is, takes him in and names him " Chocolate " due to the man's seemingly obsessive love for the candy.

His boy had faded into dust, his proud wife had sunk into a polluted creature, his flatterer and friend had been transformed into the worst of villains, his riches had melted away, the very walls that sheltered him looked on him as a stranger ; she alone had turned the same, mild gentle look upon him always.

A carving in " Ludgvan granite " thought to be of St Anthony was removed in about 1830 and was used in the wall of a pig sty which was further vandalised in 1850 when " a stranger ... taking fancy to the stony countenance and rough hands, they were broken off and carried away as relics ...".

Everyone thought that the new man was the real Gestumblindi and then the stranger went to king Heidrek and between them was the most exquisite contest in wisdom.

Beginning " impromptu " with a " stranger " who Harding thought was " nuttier than a fruitcake ," he and Frank Tarver soon passed another party.

While the police thought this resolved the case, the Hardy boys kept an eye on the Purdy house and found a stranger coming to the house, who then runs away after another scream is heard.

A stranger who has started a new sect in provincial Russia becomes the focus of sinister and deadly plots.

Ferdinand, a complete stranger in his new home, started to get close to one of Elisabeth's ladies in waiting Elena Văcărescu.

# Sympathy: Still en route to Baikonur, Marlene and Yuji cross paths with a rough mannered stranger named Dice.

The Maltese cross has a stranger history than the rest of the elements upon the arms.

To a middle-class stranger, it is true, one street would have seemed as squalid as the next.

According to his file, a stranger had found him in the street on 1 April and helped him to a hospital.

While there are a variety of circumstances that count as elder abuse, it does not include general criminal activity against older persons, such as home break-ins, " muggings " in the street or " distraction burglary ", where a stranger distracts an older person at the doorstep while another person enters the property to steal.

Through the flashbacks that litter the novel, other critical details of Herzog's life come to light, including his marriage to the stable Daisy and the existence of their son, Marco ; the life of Herzog's father, a failure at every job he tried ; and Herzog's sexual molestation by a stranger on a street in Montreal.

A passing stranger had discovered him ill, wandering on a Sydney street, and took him in.

When the baby first cried out, a midwife went into the street and asked a stranger for a name.

Although Greenwood had hidden the trash from view by putting in opaque plastic bags and expected it to be on the street only a short time before it would be taken to the dump, the Court believed it to be “ common knowledge ” that garbage at the side of the street is “ readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops, and other members of the public .” Moreover, Greenwood had left the trash there expressly so that the trash collector, a stranger, could take it.

The series combined typical soap opera plots — babies switched at birth, clandestine affairs — with more unusual ones such as the murders at the catacombs, and an episode in which a mysterious stranger came to the street and stopped the time in order to uncover the truth about the residents, only to eventually erase their memories of events of that alternate reality and turn everything back to normal.

A stranger places his hand on Morissette as she stands in the middle of the street.

Insecure to the point of tears in moments alone, Heatter as often as not could barely compose himself when a stranger said hello to him or praised him ; he was unable to eat what was put in front of him at formal affairs and often tucked a carefully wrapped sandwich of his own to eat ; as much as he loved dog stories and his own dogs, strange dogs on the street terrified him ; he was fortunate to have a wife and family who understood and supported him and never seemed to have assailed or criticized him for the insecurities his listeners would never have believed.

The Court said the purpose of the section was principally to spare the Government the embarrassment and trouble of dealing with several parties, one of them a stranger to the claim, and to prevent traffic in claims, particularly tenuous claims, against the Government.

The plot follows a mysterious stranger ( Eastwood ) who arrives in a brooding Western town where the people hire him to protect them against three soon-to-be-released felons.

* Frotteurism, sexual arousal through rubbing one's self against a non-consenting stranger in public

Whether his indictment is a true one, I cannot say ; but if you can only confront the parties and decide the matter on its merits, I think the unfortunate man may be able to make good his charge, if indeed a stranger from the country unarmed, abject and impecunious to boot, has ever a chance of a fair or kindly hearing against adversaries with all the advantages he lacks, arms, astuteness, turbulences, and the aggressive spirit of men backed by numerous friends.

The ensuing struggle between this doppelgänger-like stranger and " Roth ," played against the backdrop of the Demjanjuk trial and the First Intifada, constitutes the book's primary storyline.

One must also take into account who is wronged: violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger.

Hilarion, a gamekeeper, is also in love with Giselle and warns the girl against trusting the stranger, but Giselle refuses to listen.

" There is so strong an objection against the accurateness of this proportion, that without my demonstrations, to which Mr Hooke is yet a stranger, it cannot be believed by a judicious philosopher to be any where accurate.

Darby said the man – a stranger to him at the time – had asked for Darby's help in prosecuting an unspecified claim against Sharp.

After the events of the Blackest Night, a cloaked stranger appears on Ryut, walking near an ancient temple with seven pillars marked with the symbols of the Emotional Spectrum and plotting against the Lantern Corps.

Early in the show's run, this included a consistent regular feature titled Groove Shinny, which set a Canadian musician against a " perfect musical mind " ( Richard Crouse ) and a " perfect stranger ", for a music trivia match.

Judge Brian said, “ If I bail my horse to a smith to shoe and he bails it to another smith who damages the horse an action will not lie against him .” The second party was a stranger to the bailment, but the other justices were opposed to this opinion of Brian.

The saliva from the stranger, granted that he or she is healthy and consistent with his or her oral hygiene, is relatively clean and contains enough antimicrobial compounds such as lactoferrin, lactoperoxidase, and secretory immunoglobulin A which can help clear pathogens from the child and benefit the child against infection.

Tommy is freed in an explosion set off by a stranger who, despite being cybernetic like most of the Sphere's denizens, appears to be working against it rather than for it.

; Charley Says: An animated series of PIFs with a ginger cat called Charley ( whose warning growls were voiced by Kenny Everett ) who advised children against stranger danger

She is also betrothed to a stranger against her will, however she soon discovers that she and her fiancé have actually already met.

In spite of the initial pesimism by the robust stranger and of the nature of the sport, the players were excited by the game and after 5 or 5 training sessions the first game was proposed to be against the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

His master gives his purse for safekeeping to the slave who continues his warning against the cunning people of Epidamnus " who think nothing of accosting a stranger " and bilking him of his money, when Erotium steps out of her house and endearingly accosts the Syracuse Menaechmus, thinking him to be his brother.