-- In France he had puzzled the meaning of the great stone monuments men had thrown up to the sky, and always as he wandered, he felt a stranger to their exultation.

The Frankish bishops were not well disposed towards this stranger abbot, because of his ever-increasing influence, and at last they showed their hostility.

In the Somali language, the word gaal means " non-Muslim " or " stranger ", a possible reference to the Oromo and their old pagan religion.

For example, one of the owners might sell their interest in the property to a stranger whom the other owner does not particularly like.

In this case, parties personally known to each other are addressed familiarly by their first or given names, regardless of rank ; senior officers are addressed as one might address a stranger, courteously, but without any naming or mark of respect.

" The King has suffered anxiety over the stranger, but he and Rodney have never succeeded in capturing or identifying him, their plans constantly backfiring on themselves.

The Kittredges are trying to sell a painting by Paul Cézanne and now have this wounded stranger in their home.

Sophocles wrote an Inachos, probably a satyr play, which survives only in some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhyncus and Tebtunis, Egypt ; in it Inachos is reduced from magnificence to misery through the unrequited love of Zeus for his daughter Io ; Hermes wears the cap of darkness, rendering him invisible, but plays the aulos, to the mystification of the satyrs ; Argos and Iris, as a messenger of Hera both appear, a " stranger " turns Io into a heifer at the touch of a hand, and at the end, apparently, the satyrs are freed from their bondage, to become shepherds of Inachos.

These children's biological father – unlike an uncle who is their mother's brother and thus their caregiver – is in some sense a ' stranger ' to them, even when affectionate and emotionally close.

On their date, Tender and Fertility ride the bus downtown, where a stranger rudely begins telling them facile jokes pointed at the Creedish mass suicide.

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.

The following epigram by Simonides was written on the monument: " Oh stranger, tell to the Lacedaemonians ( Spartans ), that we lie here, obedient to their words.

He thus came to the foot of the Hungarian hill, and after concealing his troops, he sent messengers to Askold and Dir, representing himself as a stranger on his way to Greece on an errand for Oleg and for Igor ', the prince ’ s son, and requesting that they should come forth to greet them as members of their race.

In his article " The Administration of Justice ", on 7 February 1846, Mitchel pointed out that the Englishman made his own laws, that they were not imported, that " no stranger ," or " slave of a stranger, sat upon his judgment seats ," that English men had grown " to love and honour their native land, and expected no premium upon its betrayal.

Parents are also keeping children indoors in order to protect them from their growing fear of “ stranger danger ”.

" Nationality is their first object — a nationality which will not only raise our people from their poverty, by securing to them the blessings of a domestic legislature, but inflame and purify them with a lofty and heroic love of country — a nationality of the spirit as well as the letter — a nationality which may come to be stamped upon our manners, our literature, and our deeds — a nationality which may embrace Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter, Milesian and Cromwellian, the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates ; not a nationality which would preclude civil war, but which would establish internal union and external independence — a nationality which would be recognised by the world, and sanctified by wisdom, virtue, and time.

In 1947, on the occasion of their wedding anniversary, her spouse admitted that their marriage had been completely arranged by their respective fathers, and Ingeborg herself added: " I married a complete stranger!

The book's name might be inspired by the famous epitaph to King Leonidas and his men, erected at Thermopylae: Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Two black men had knocked on her door at 7 am to use her telephone to call their employers, but she refused, as she would have done to any other stranger knocking at her door at such an hour, and was subsequently verbally abused.

: The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger than dreams that fulfil us in sleep with delight ;

Witnessing and testifying became an integral component to these meetings, where a congregation member or even a stranger would rise and recount his turn from a sinful life to one of piety and peace.

In these sources, Benjamin swore an oath, on the memory of Joseph, that he was innocent of theft, and, when challenged about how believable the oath would be, explained that remembering Joseph was so important to him that he had named his sons in Joseph's honour ; these sources go on to state that Benjamin's oath touched Joseph so deeply that Joseph was no longer able to pretend to be a stranger.

I came as a poor stranger into these parts for the cause of Christ, Our Saviour.

The term " strangers " used in the King James Bible and other English translations ( for example, " Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt " in Deuteronomy 10, 19 ) does not fully convey these connotations.

Then the king will say to those on His right hand, “ Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world ; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me .” ... “ Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My Brethren, you did it to me .”

" Then He will also say to those on the left hand, “ Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels ; for I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me .” ... “ Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me .” And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

Furthermore, the stranger allegedly taught him to say the phrase " I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was " ( in Bavarian dialect ), but Hauser claimed that he did not understand what these words meant.

A major difficulty developed, however, in transferring knowledge gained from these " stranger labs " to the actual situation " back home ".

' If you were a stranger, you'd think, ' What are these people talking about?

The introduction of the Skaven supplement to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay answers these questions with the dogma of the Horned Rat, although Skaven philosophers have questioned the nature of the mysterious stranger, wondering whether this entity is indeed a deity or a merely a Daemonic entity.

Performing traditional songs was a rare covers excursion for the prolific songwriter, although she was no stranger to these tunes, having heard some of them played by her father when she was a child.

In October the same year, Marr reignited speculation when he hinted on BBC Radio 5 Live at a potential reunion in the future, saying that " stranger things have happened so, you know, who knows?

The stranger then taught Idris how to form the figures in a regular manner and what the results meant, teaching him how to know things that could not be known with just the physical senses.

Among his own many quotations are: " A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead ," " Truth is stranger than fiction ; fiction has to make sense ," " We see things as we are, not as they are ," and " The purpose of life is not to be happy at all.

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Giles was a stranger to theological and classical learning, but by constant contemplation of heavenly things, and by the divine love with which he was inflamed, he acquired that fullness of holy wisdom which filled his contemporaries with wonder, and which drew men of every condition, even the Pope himself, to Perugia to hear from Giles ' lips the Word of Life.

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 ).

And you have a vivid sense as of unseen or dimly seen things — vivid, and yet fitful and darkling ; you glimpse salient features, but lose the fine shades or catch them imperfectly through the vision of the imagination: a case, as it were, of ignorant near-sighted stranger traversing the rim of wide vague horizons of Alps with an inspired and enlightened long-sighted native.

The exceptions to this are Carrot Ironfoundersson ( who eventually figures out the truth himself ), Angua ( whom he tries to court because she's a werewolf ), the staff of the Times ( whom he needs to pass some information to ), and the Canting Crew ( who believe in much stranger things than talking dogs ).

Such persons, when available to rescue, are thus even more required to do so ethically than regular persons who might simply make things worse ( for a utilitarian, rescue by a skilled professional in a relevant field would maximize the good even better than rescue by a regular stranger ).

Afterwards, Mr. Garrison is assaulted in the middle of the night by a mysterious stranger, and he sets off for the concert happy to have sorted things out with his father.

While conducting an investigation of a sizable accounting error made by the Versailles Casino, Jim begins to realize that there may be stranger things going on in this town than embezzlement.