It reminded him a little of prison hooch, brewed in a garbage bag from rotten fruit and bread and sugar and water, but it was smoother, sweeter, infinitely stranger. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Man and beast, strangers both, blue and blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He asked no questions, for he was accustomed to seeing total strangers living under his roof. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One thing at a time, very wise. But you’ll be looking forward to a brand-new school! Like I always say. A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I too appear as something of a stranger in these early memories: watchful and grudging, oddly silent. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His heart cried out within him the way a brach with whelps between her legs would howl and bristle at a stranger—so the hackles of his heart rose at that laughter. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well!” said the stranger to Mr. Wopsle, when the reading was done, “you have settled it all to your own satisfaction, I have no doubt?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger drew out a leather pouch and shook ten gold sovereigns from it onto the table. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was a stranger—a grown-up and a woman to boot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As I followed it with my eyes, I heard a stranger’s voice behind me. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When your mom is only your mom on weekends and holidays, she’s just one step up from being a stranger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted to seem casual, but not too casual, like she normally spent the weekend knocking on strangers’ doors and asking if they were her mom. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They swore oaths then, the mightiest of oaths, the gods and the stranger, that neither side could betray the other. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then in broken speech, for he was a stranger to our language, he commanded, “Bring Sumac Huanacauri to me!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The stranger just laughed when she tried to push him away. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After hours of questioning, Colonel Wells showed Mudd another photograph of Lincoln’s killer and asked him whether he recognized the man in the picture as the stranger. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve gone from being my mom’s perfect dream child with 100s on her quizzes and the vocabulary of a geek who reads all the time, to a stranger. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was not usually frivolous, and didn’t think it right to have shared such uncontrolled laughter with a complete stranger. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Berg stopped again, and once more the strangers in their odd suits lifted their weapons and opened fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mythology, the ancient sociologist would have thought, could not possibly enable millions of strangers to cooperate on a daily basis. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried the gun to protect herself and had to use it once when, having climbed nine flights of stairs, she found some strangers playing cards at her kitchen table. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Apparently the stranger was not worried by the news that they meant to stay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought nothing of these strangers or of any courtesy. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her hands are a stranger’s, swollen and coarse, her fingernails dirty. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Helm had seen them knock on the door of “the office,” seen Herb step outside and talk to them on the lawn, and, possibly ten minutes later, watched the strangers walk away, “looking sulky.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

An electrical shock from some jumper cables had put her into a coma from which she emerged, three weeks later, able to “know” things by handling an object or touching a stranger’s hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was not a stranger because the village housed no strangers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go and wait outside,” said Odin to the stranger. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I'd been pretty upset about having a stranger hanging around, even if she was doing chores so I wouldn’t have to. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stares at me as though I am a stranger, but I have never felt less like one. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But he is a good watch dog—has a roar like a lion, designed to conceal from night-wandering strangers the fact that he couldn’t bite his way out of a comet de papier. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t leave her behind if there was stranger danger around. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In Grandfather’s town, the house with the upstairs balcony, where he had watched the Nazis arrive six years earlier, was also occupied by strangers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger hearing Sounder s treed bark suddenly fill the night might have thought there were six dogs at the foot of one tree. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed each other in the halls, and as far as I was concerned, he was a stranger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Not far away the stranger's horse, loosely tied to an iron ring in the wall of the donkey's stable, was grazing. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was among those people at the conference, though by that time I was no stranger to Reggie’s story, and his passion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Famished but with no prospect of food, in a cramped room filled with strangers, mercifully, I quickly sank into the oblivion of sleep. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at me for a moment and his gaze was distant, other-worldly, the face of a stranger. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a surprise to see her, in this airport with all these strangers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Were strangers. For some, strangers are threats, and they look at us accordingly. Pay it no mind.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when a meadhall burned, the survivors would go to another meadhall and, stretching out their hands, would crawl unarmed up the strangers’ hill and would beg to be taken in. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed that, like most bonobos, he’d be shy of strangers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We push past the crowd, strangers dancing against us as we try to clear a path. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Starting back he raised his own yew-staff between him and the stranger. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And so, with Byrd just out of reach, and Frank on the edge, Axel ran from these strangers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In public I expect most of the faces I meet to be the faces of strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found herself looking at Lane as if he were a stranger, or a poster advertising a brand of linoleum, across the aisle of a subway car. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if a small, befuddled stranger were peering through the imposing mask of my father’s features. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie laughed and ruined the picture, and Mom dressed me down in front of the strangers who’d gathered to witness our group humiliation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The stranger nearest the door kicked it shut and swore about the cold. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger reached inside his cloak and drew out the purse with which he had bought me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eating, she realized now, was a very personal thing, not something to do with strangers. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At such times, a chance acquaintance or even a stranger was easily able to lose his ‘real’ meaning and assume an identity in the unconscious traumatic configuration. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, she would sit in cafes, or airports, or train stations, watching strangers, imagining their lives, and wondering which of them were likely to have read her blog. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She scrubbed the whole house, just in case one of the strangers wanted to use our bathroom. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

All night long, in all those other strangers’ dreams, she’d heard scarcely a word she could understand, but this one was speaking it without even an accent. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’m an eternal stranger forced to reintroduce myself to her one bon mot at a time. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

‘You are a white man and a stranger.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I want him to know that the guys with guns were absolute strangers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Such an incredible gift, and yet here the boy lay, a runaway sleeping in a stranger’s house. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Away from the stranger who calls herself my sister. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I am an absolute stranger at the school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had never hit Turtle, but one of these days—besides, a stranger was present. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to sort out a stranger who was simply taking a shortcut by walking across the field from one with bad intentions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Neither of those teachers introduced me to the class; they seemed as uncertain as the kids about how to act around a stranger. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It really was immaterial whether it was Miss Kenton or a complete stranger who had walked in at that moment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, listen, Uncle Tom,” I said, “you’re not going to whip me. You’re a stranger to me. You don’t support me. I don’t live with you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not supposed to open the door for strangers, and this guy looked kind of strange to me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mind? She won’t be able to thank you enough for coming. Giants love strangers.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was especially cynical in groups, perhaps feeling that a witty cut-down about a stranger would earn me the respect and admiration of friends. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"I don't think the stranger talks in riddles," she said. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, the doctor replied, they were complete strangers to him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once I was in the house I was forbidden to step outside or open the door for strangers. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merry started, noticing the stranger for the first time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We pass the plot where Mateo buried that bird this morning, back when I was still a stranger on a bike. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some people started worrying, looking ahead to ripe beans and tomatoes and thinking about strangers coming in. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, his life was already little better than slavery; for all he knew, the lordly stranger on the great horse might be kinder to him than Arsheesh. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It kills Mom that she has to hand me over to some stranger for help, that there’s something wrong with me that she can’t fix. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, maybe because we think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why he gave it to a stranger I do not know. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have been hosts to gods,” they said, “and you shall have your reward. This wicked country which despises the poor stranger will be bitterly punished, but not you.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the stranger waited at the gate while the girl went in to tell her father that there was a man who wished to eat some food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Letting total strangers drive one’s car around all day was a hard thing to ask, but nearly two hundred people turned over their keys to the boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When he moved toward them, a stranger, they ran off, though not very far. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I knew no story stranger than that of Foster. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did not like the crypts, had never liked the crypts, but*he was no stranger to them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Had this boy really once just been a stranger? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Then you are even stranger than you appear.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But it is. It’s a true-story contest, and I think the truth must be stranger than that lot is fit to dream up.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every single lecture my dad had ever given me about strangers seemed to be coming true. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She was not unknown to him; he couldn’t treat her like a stranger. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And in that exchange there was so much of the private rapport that can only exist between two particular strangers of this tribe that we call black. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was my money, maybe, but I was a stranger with a bloody face and he’d given something to me that he didn’t have to. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as he heard of the Trojan embassy to the King he started with his army to march to Latium and prevent by force any treaty between the Latins and the strangers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are sealed into one of the thirty-two capsules with the strangers who were next to you in the queue, and when they close the doors, the sound of the city is cut off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the stranger had not been there, he would have given them an account of what had happened. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hid his terror in his heart, however, and addressed the stranger: “What country is your fatherland? No hateful and defiling lies, I beg you. Tell me the truth.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once their fear was past they made the strangers very welcome, and there was no end to their questions. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I would come home from elementary and middle school in tears every day because my classmates or even strangers would harass me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wasn't some stranger, some bum begging for change. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The reflection in the mirror looks like a stranger. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The new Khmer have better words for eating, sleeping, working, stranger; all designed to make us equal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was lost behind her sunglasses, ignoring her husband’s requests that she pose for another picture, walking past her children as if they were strangers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even though strangers glance at us as they pass, I hold him tight. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't want strangers to hear his mistakes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Revealed by daylight, we saw the strangers we had shared a black closet with for six weeks. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“How do I know if the person who tells me he’s a friend isn’t a stranger out to hurt me?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I shuddered and, breaking into a trot, closed the gap between myself and the stranger's horse. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Copy it out now in a normal hand," the stranger said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The little girls were wearing white party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the Villac Uma raised his arm and traced his finger along my scar, reminding me of that long-ago day when the yunka stranger had done the same. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Galileo rushed back to Padua, only to find that he had missed the stranger, who was now in Venice intending to sell the instrument to the Doge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My dear sir, do not make a stranger of me.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

By way of answer the stranger pushed the barrel of a shotgun through the open window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He did not walk as a stranger in a strange town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Small, polite words that meant no more than when you brushed a stranger in the street and apologized. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He had come to a community where strangers arrived every day, from places farther away than the next state over. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lazlo they regarded with curiosity, and the rest of the strangers as well, once their camels had been brought through the gates into the central plaza of the fortress. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You said that, in a way, you were a stranger to yourself. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tact was a quality unknown to her, discretion too, and because gossip was the breath of life to her this stranger must be served for her dissection. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed a stranger hanging around the front of the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Moishe’s a good boy,” the stranger said in a quaking voice. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Once, Jenni found me curled up on a stranger’s lawn, halfway between campus and our apartment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew, from having heard our conversation, that I was a stranger in the area. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d left myself wide open in a van of strangers—so wide open, in fact, that Chubs had been able to put a hand on me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Opening her eyes, she had seen his face—no, not his face, a ferocious stranger’s, pale, distorted, twitching with some insane, inexplicable fury. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite they had dirty white handkerchiefs over their faces, Grandpa recognized them right off as the strangers who’d come in the store that morning claiming to be cotton buyers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After checking the man’s passport to make sure he was who he said, and informally interrogating him to make sure he wasn’t a reporter, Bobby atypically agreed to dine with the stranger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Usually that's done to a stranger, and the cut is made in the face, is that right? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, while she was drying herself, the stranger begged her, with his eyes full of tears, to marry him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But he’s out in the open, and surrounded by strangers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like the strangers on the Avenue, they became, in the twinkling of an eye, unutterably different and fantastically present. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“They were strangers—white men. They got you drinking, then tried to rob you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And since you come with an Elf of our kindred, we are willing to befriend you, as Elrond asked; though it is not our custom to lead strangers through our land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t dare tell Dad about the stranger grabbing my sister, because I knew he’d bail himself out of jail in a flash and go hunting for the guy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Christina and Uriah sit close enough for their shoulders to touch, but they are looking in opposite directions, more like strangers than friends. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A thicket of spears were pointed towards the strangers; and some of the horsemen had bows in hand, and their arrows were already fitted to the string. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Look, bad news I may be, but I’m not a stranger. You said so yourself. ‘I’m so familiar to you,’” he mimics me with perfect beach girl inflection, then snaps the cover on his lens. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was no easy task for a stranger to become a regular at Hobie’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large woman was apologetic, as though it embarrassed her for a stranger to see Mississippi’s dirty linen. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger was silent a long moment, then he said gruffly, "You were told not to speak unless spoken to." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I bought seven tickets and rented six strangers and a minivan for the night.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do I have to apologize for loving strangers? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he’s tired of being touched by strangers: Come back to me when you’re done being flung through the firmament, you lost Pleiad. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The stranger gave a little bow and introduced himself. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the night with strangers, curled up on the cold floor, terrified and very much alone, glad that I had not been shot. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At least if strangers came to the door, they wouldn’t see it. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But I am not their blood, the ground doesn’t care who digs it, I am a stranger at a cocktail party. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone tiptoed around her mother, who had become a stranger, thin and knuckly and severe. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I observed to him that as you were unused to company, I did not think you would like appearing before so gay a party—all strangers; and he replied, in his quick way—‘Nonsense! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The way they grappled, it didn’t seem like the stranger would be able to hold Mr. Flux very long. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A number of years ago, a newcomer, a stranger, moved to my country near Monterey. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you hurried with him full of doubt to the cabin designated by the stranger, where he met that seemingly demented black man . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she was faced with an odd stranger and a pigeon whose sanity was slowly unraveling. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tall, cadaverous stranger fell back in fright at the chaplain’s cry and shrieked, “Don’t hurt me!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And strangers who followed him about the streets and buttonholed him for unexplainable reasons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was George to whom Mudd confided that two strangers had spent the night of Lincoln’s assassination in his home. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of the death of newborn things, lonely roads, and strangers who appear out of nowhere simply to hold one’s hand, woods in which the sun was always setting. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tried to counter it by being warm and kind to one another, far more than strangers usually are. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, timid about taking off my clothes in the presence of a stranger. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Stay, strangers here unknown!’ they cried in the tongue of the Riddermark, demanding the names and errand of the strangers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Little girls were warned not to take candy from strangers, not to speak to strange men. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of bold, I’m-looking-at-you stare you almost never get from people, especially strangers. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There are others like me here, strangers, hiding from police who will try to stop them. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course somebody must of gone to the store and told Grandpa there was a tall stranger with a silver-trimmed saddle up at his house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Strangers make noise in sleep or waking, every one of them dreaming of somewhere other than this stony patch of ground among strangers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the sudden a stranger boy came up ’longside of me and gave me some unpleasant looks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Other than that, he was a stranger, even to Prosper. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She can hear her father exchange a few words with a stranger and hand over some keys. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In The Stranger the protagonist, Mersault, has a chance meeting with an Arab, a stranger, that results in Mersault’s killing the man. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was remarkably tall and narrow, this stranger standing there. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m aware that Rosa is in seventh heaven; that random strangers are talking to her and treating her like a friend. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The deeper we went, the stranger things became. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I turn my back on the border and follow two strangers through the darkening hills deeper into Turkey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What is a stranger doing in a strange land?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We moved through the house as strangers, at different times. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Did I ever wear bat-wing sleeves and velveteen slippers, did I wear dresses like tinted marshmallows to formal dances, shuffle around the floor with some stranger’s groin digging into mine? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at me for a moment, then turned to face the stranger. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or is the stranger the person you leave behind? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“May I go in and see Mama?” she asked humbly, feeling like a stranger in her own home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, we drifted out, eyes averted, like strangers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Today Bigger Thomas and that mob are strangers, yet they hate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Night will fall in about an hour or so, and I have a wounded stranger added to my duties. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’d hear strangers on the radio and in the Mexican Catholic church across town speaking in Spanish, but I couldn’t really believe that Spanish was a public language, like English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of turning back or spurring the horse in a bid for escape, the stranger reined in and slowly approached the bandits, who stood in a crescent, blocking the path. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger could merely show up and take her away from everything she’d ever known. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger really could have concluded from this that Gregor had been lying in wait for her and wanted to bite her. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am holiest. I am worthy,” the stranger said loudly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless of any heart drawing, he was a stranger still. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His mom said Boots never knew a stranger, which meant she thought everybody in the world was her friend. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger untied the animal and swung into the saddle. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know anything about housewarming gifts, but this definitely had to be one of the stranger ones. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And one who spoke Lakota was even stranger. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Crazy, isn't it? All these strangers? A lot of them are really young, too. I saw, the other day, two fifteen-year-olds under the canopy!" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A stranger to the music could not have made a distinction between the songs sung a few minutes before and those being danced to in the gay house by the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edna laughed and Olanna laughed along, but already she was thinking that perhaps she did need to talk to somebody, somebody neutral who would help her reclaim herself, deal with the stranger she had become. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It causes them to abandon their ways, to attack strangers. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dad’s grief for his brother was as real as if it were a stranger who lived with us, a stranger who had taken my place in the center of the universe. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

With all the support I’d received from neighbors and strangers today, I was strangely upbeat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had been identified as a stranger and felt his sense of belonging slipping away. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It dissolved when they approached the entrance, and the warders, quick to notice the band of splendid young strangers, led them courteously within and sent word to the King of their arrival. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Untended! Looking for trouble that was! There are many thieves and strangers about these days.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya looked like someone had dropped her into a life with these three well-dressed, redheaded strangers. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This stranger inches his hand over to mine and grasps it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once awake, however, I could only think of what I’d seen the night before, the meeting in the woods of the steward and the stranger. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

By Sam, and often enough that she was no stranger to it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My dad’s favorite story to tell strangers and indulgent relatives was the day he and Mom tried to button me up into a blue one for his birthday party when I was three. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It feels unnatural to grasp hands with strangers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“And the British are such strangers to colonialism and bland food?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The stranger held it careless, as if it weighed no more than a rooster, though even to a horse it would of been heavy as lead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His mother collects coconuts from strangers, promising haircuts and manicures in exchange. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so many strangers around, perhaps no one would notice them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No, you did not say a stranger would come,” Chasca said as she slid under her covers next to me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Even though Otto liked Mr. Flux, or rather, he liked that Mr. Flux liked them—fans were awesome—he knew to be cautious when strangers offered help, either by gift or effort. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then, followed by the steward and the stranger, as well as all the villagers, he led the way back into church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she speaks to strangers on the telephone, they call her “sir.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m talking court cases, supervised visits—how you gon’ have some stranger supervise me as I spend time with my babies? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And Sean never wanted to let strangers in the house before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t expect he’s stupid enough to come back to the islands, but I’ve seen plenty of stranger and stupider things in my time.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Colonel Gerineldo Márquez limited himself then to just listening, burdened by the impression that he was in telegraphic contact with a stranger from another world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe a stranger would've been better. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I see Dziusia tug on a stranger’s sleeve and ask a question. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One took offense at her inclusion of native lore: “The grand defect of the work is the introduction of idle stories related to her by strangers.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Women were using these toilets anyway, squatting over them in the semidarkness while a line of strangers watched and held their noses. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stranger guided the horse to where the crossbow lay. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strange moment for me, among these big, bad strangers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger peeking through the window might think that the two of them had entered a suicide pact. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After four days on the run, he makes a critical mistake, boldly supporting Lincoln’s assassination while eating dinner with strangers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger screamed and thrashed and flapped his arm until finally he shook free. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The stranger stood inside the gate, and he locked it again, and put the key away. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The image of some stranger beating my mother brings to life such hate in me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m one who knows. I’m a stranger in a strange land.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing of the kind,” the stranger said with a deep-throated growl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The cheerful tinkle of steel drums now mixed with Luno’s odd piggish grunts, the wiry stranger swinging a deck mop with painful accuracy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A stranger sidles up and whispers, “You want to make a better wage? There’s good work upriver.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My own reflection, unspooled and distorted in the dark liquid, was a stranger to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The evildoers can no longer harm you. But stop reading and writing letters for strangers, you hear?” she warned me as we were about to leave. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look no stranger than any of them in my moccasins and the jeans my brother Jake gave me when he left. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not, as it happens, a stranger to law enforcement. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My head drooped forward and came to rest on the stranger's damp cloak. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am no longer all alone among strangers. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited to get used to her, to her presence at my side, at my table and in my bed, but a week later we were still strangers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grover was singing: “Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger ...” She sat forward. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more she thought about it, the stranger it seemed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t likely that I would explain that to these strangers even if I could. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did seem surprisingly at ease with me—much calmer than I would have been at his age about the sudden appearance of a stranger in my bedroom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The men stopped at the tree, and the strangers talked to Nya's uncle some more. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So matters stood when there came into the stricken country a stranger, a man of great courage and great intelligence, whose name was Oedipus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as if it couldn’t have gotten any stranger, now crazy people surrounded them out in the woods, making animal sounds and laughing hysterically. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I had looked forward to the breaking-and-entering aspect of cleaning the stay-overs, the chance to examine the secret physical existence of strangers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was a stranger to me when she first arrived at my uncle’s house in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aureliano had taught him to read and write, thinking about other things, as he would have done with a stranger. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

You see strangers looking out, just like you are doing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran had never seen as many strangers in all his years, not even when King Robert had come to visit Father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was not ready to face the verdict of strangers when they saw her strange child. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

If I were a ghost, she wondered, regarding herself like a stranger, what would I change about myself? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Although we had talked lots on the telephone, he was in some ways a stranger—a white stranger. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people he tried to put in stories from the papers always seemed like strangers. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they abandoned their cars and staggered up to the houses of strangers and pounded on their front doors, begging for and receiving shelter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I believe you,” said the stranger, the alien alone with me, and so strong had my access of self-alienation been that I looked up at him bewildered. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was on Alvarado Street, slashed with neon light—and around me it was nothing but strangers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even stranger, they were inscribed with words on each heel. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“He is one of them. A stranger. No one you love, no one you hate, no one you have ever known. Will you kill him?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stared at his face as though it were, as indeed it soon appeared to be, the face of a stranger, a stranger who held secrets that John could never know. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I would be walking down the hall at school and a complete stranger going the other direction would extend his hand to give me five. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But in the summer, it darkened so much that strangers asked, What are you? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She watched the stranger sit down with her parents. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hunt, one of the older men shouted, pointing at us, “We are going to feast tonight, and the strangers are welcome to stay.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Today the company employs about 200,000 people worldwide, most of whom are complete strangers to each other. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all children in the neighborhood, and in all neighborhoods for that matter, she had been warned about strangers—but she must have forgotten. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For over a month Quang-ha had been sleeping in the same room with a complete stranger. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Friendly faces came into view, some familiar—Gran; my favorite teacher, Miss Kirker; the vet assistant with a tower of pumpkin-orange curls—along with gobs of strangers gathered in the parking lot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They didn’t so much as look up from their labor as the Supreme Captain brought in the stranger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But having the kind of fun that seems daring and embarrassing in front of strangers requires a special bravery. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We anchored at Dominico...a very fair island...inhabited by many savage Indians....They are continually in wars, and will eat their enemies when they kill them, or any stranger if they take them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He made a loud show of leaving ten-dollar tips to strangers but was stingy with presents to family. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I really so debilitated that I had stared into the face of a near stranger and mistaken him for a friend with whom I’d spent the previous six weeks? Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, unexpectedly, the names of strangers started appearing in a guest book which we kept in the front room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought they would launch at him a laundry list of all the things that have been going on, but they seemed uncomfortable when they tried to talk about me to a stranger. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The gateway to the Long Bridge was a black stone arch carved with sphinxes, manticores, dragons, and creatures stranger still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re a bloody spy,” the stranger said, as calmly as if they’d just sat down for a cup of coffee together. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“How many fights there are in families, every day. People in families love each other, or want to love each other, but they fight anyway. With strangers you don’t care so much. Think about it.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s eyelids are trembling now too, and in front of all these strangers. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Burnham, with his failed attempts at getting into Harvard and Yale and his lack of formal architectural training, sitting down to dinner with these men was like being a stranger at someone else’s Thanksgiving. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He hails from Flanders, which means he has an accent even stranger than mine. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was strange for Mama to be home at three thirty in the afternoon, right when we were getting home from school, and even stranger to see her leaving the house again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“She doth but nurse the seed, new-sown. The male is parent. She for him—as stranger for a stranger—just hoards the germ of life.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They saw him only at public meetings; he had become a stranger. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the counter where red and green peppers were strung like Christmas tree lights and saw the frowning face of the stranger. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One after the other, the strangers slipped into Osage County. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Stupefied that he would walk these miles as a courtesy to a stranger, I suggested he let me buy him a ticket for the show and we could walk back together. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes so intent on the wayward stranger who trips into their net, they were blind to the cobalt on their own backs, the moonshine fighting to pierce their comers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We do not welcome strangers in this town, and you be the kind we like least.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They thought they knew cold, but the white north had a way of forcing strangers to reevaluate their terms. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The face in the mirror was practically a stranger — eyes too bright, hectic spots of red across my cheekbones. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And do you spend a lot of time chatting in the bar to strangers?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He became quite used to strangers staring at his scars with pained expressions on their faces. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even if I could get in touch with my parents, it wasn’t like they would welcome a girl they considered a stranger back with open arms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

What was he thinking, giving some stranger at the fence my address and telling him there are Jews in my apartment? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a man, a stranger, and yet—he thought the face was familiar. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole way, I’m documenting the city, taking photos of strangers I’ve never seen, strangers I see every day. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, unsure if I should mention the stranger who had chased me last night. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at me, almost as if I were a stranger. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As the door’s cheap lock gave way, the stranger hauled himself through the window. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Your father and the rest of the elders will decide, but I’m sure the visit of such strangers will be cause for much festivity.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this man I bent over—this commonplace, quiet stranger—how had he become involved in the web of horror? and why had the Fury flown at him? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In Mazoe, a stranger would have been greeted with suspicion, if not fear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man Jack looked up at the stranger, and it was the man Jack who was troubled. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Passing the stranger the torch so he could see better, Aycliffe took up the document and cast his eyes over it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was a stranger and stank of dog, but I licked her palm as if it were a golden plate. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they would wear out all their last strength only to find more starving people and these strangers to them as well. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mom was not a fan of strangers snooping through our stuff—POP. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They especially don’t like strangers near the tie-up when they’re about to be milked. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

His casket should have been pulled by a fine white horse, not pushed by a girl and a stranger. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Communal sing-alongs had a faintly coercive quality—that way strangers had of catching each other’s eye as their voices rose—which she was determined to resist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When you’d been forced to be naked in front of strangers every day for years, you didn’t have much shame left. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It had been a strange business indeed, and Reynie had a suspicion it was to grow stranger still. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And at sunset a stranger appeared at the Fosters’ gate. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new house was no stranger than the other, except that we were with Mother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plots and poisons were no strangers to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Oskar, I’m remembering you onstage in front of all of those strangers. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was the reaction of any parent when a stranger lays a hand on the body of his or her child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Then you know that now not no time for strangers to be here,” he says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As if the stranger knew Grandma’s house somehow, knew it more than a stranger should. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We can be almost certain, then, given these assumptions, that two people chosen at random will be linked, as were the strangers on the business trip, by a chain of at most two intermediates. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s obvious that I’m a stranger to her; she doesn’t even know what I think about the most ordinary things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Two strangers stood on the doorstep, one a small woman with a light brown complexion and curly hair and the other a striking dark-skinned man in his early twenties. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s mouth twitches with words she doesn’t want to say in front of strangers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The stereotype is that rural Mexicans are generous to strangers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And so he spent another year living with strangers and not mentioning his birthday. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I remind myself of my mother and father, fumbling in front of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to prepare everything,” she insisted, “because we never know what these strangers like to eat.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Besides the night Lily did' my makeup, this is the only other time I can ever remember actually feeling like I had a real sister instead of a stranger living in the next bedroom. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Something about the fullness of the room, or the strangeness of the stranger, has made me talkative, and I shout back, "Ashland Avenue is what they play to terrorists to make them talk." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I’d actually like to sit by the road and have this complete stranger help me with my cuts. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He was ready to go alone among a crowd of suspicious strangers, but what he stood to gain from this risk it was impossible to guess. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother hates it when strangers come to the door,” Phoebe said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“An ugly lives for tricks. Haven’t you ever done something just because a mysterious stranger intrigued you?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s nothing against my dad, I’m just not in the mood to fake about a stranger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Our family allowed some romance, paying adult brides’ prices and providing dowries so that their sons and daughters could marry strangers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had taken them off and put them on in front of family, in front of friends, in front of doctors, but never really in front of strangers. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I lean against the door, watching the stranger like he’s a devil I’ve just locked myself in with. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Good, strong young boy, you are,” the stranger said. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I have no idea who this lady is spinning around in this stranger’s arms, spinning and spinning, like they’re in some lame movie until they lose their footing and fall to the ground. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

No, this time Lovett gives the order to search inside the house to see where the supposed strangers slept. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A burly stranger shuffled through the back door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was more a stranger to me than Mrs. Klauson, but we were related, and here she was, and I was glad, I think. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was a naked stranger met in a chance encounter. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the shadowy stairwell, the stranger emerged with that bucking sack hoisted on his shoulder and a half-eaten turnover in hand. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’d say you got off lucky,” the stranger said with a smile. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are words like family celebration and stranger and Annabelle and You know how she feels and Ease up, Gina, Christ. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The stranger twisted about impatiently and, grasping the back of my tunic, hoisted me up behind him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next, I was told that a stranger’s purpose in moving about the country might cause inquiry or even suspicion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin didn't particularly enjoy talking to strangers driving forklifts, but he silently started to walk out into the field. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

People were shouting at the new arrivals, dust obscured the desert sun, and the children of the oasis were bursting with excitement at the arrival of the strangers. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strangers whom Besa had spoken of arrived about an hour later. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had that West Virginia need for a certain amount of space between me and a stranger. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three different elementary schools feed into the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School, so there are many strangers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He passed the wine, made from palm tree leaves, to Amari’s father, then to the other elders, and finally to the strangers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days being near any stranger was better than thinking alone about the cigarettes and beer and meat that he wanted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He felt stiff and uncomfortable in the tight dark suit and afraid of all the strangers who seemed to be controlling his life today. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at this woman here beside me, half stranger, half mother. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman walked through the wall, a figure of shimmering mist that solidified beside the stranger. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And, having thought of it as the face of a stranger, he tried to look at it as a stranger might, and tried to discover what other people saw. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

An elderly stranger next to me held my hand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It began at the feet, especially as the strangers were dressed in outlandish clothes like knights-in-armour, and it mastered the texture, the construction, the articulation and the probable price of their sabathons. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no shade on therapy...Just didn’t want to talk to some stranger about my subconscious fear of former kid-show stars and merry-go-rounds. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A familiar shame crept over me, the shame of slipping past a stranger in the street and relieving him of his wallet without him even knowing it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t no place else. You must be a stranger around here, getting lost in Minneapolis. I couldn’t get lost blindfolded.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, she liked being around her family and friends and even strangers sometimes, but being alone like this filled her with pleasure. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the colored boy in the black suit driving the wagon and his queer smile discomfited strangers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There were people looming over her—four of them, a woman and three men, strangers all—peering down, blinking, looking concerned. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Scipio stumbled into the auditorium, the others stared at him as if he were a stranger. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because—no matter what kindhearted strangers thought—I was in need of neither company nor comfort. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a stranger, someone who had found a way into the house and was now answering the phone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then Smiley crowded close up behind the driver’s seat to talk ugly about the rich-lookin’ stranger from Texas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The jungle stranger was still staring at me, although he couldn’t possibly see me hidden in the darkness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A lone Danish coastguard stood bundled in furs, his horse beside him, and he shaded his eyes against the glint of the icebergs beyond the sail and watched the strangers come swiftly in toward land. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter how many times I caught the stranger by his shoulder, the moment he turned around, the illusion was shattered. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One day that summer, a stranger with a Chaplinesque mustache showed up in Gray Horse to offer his assistance to the private eyes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The strangers were small, after all—how much could they eat? Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

How the stranger knew their maneuvers was definitely a mystery that needed solving. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he saw that in the darkness of the burrow the stranger’s ears were shining with a faint silver light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows you are not supposed to speak to strangers. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got mad at you and yelled, “What do you mean, why? Because you’ve turned into a stranger!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told the neighbors and passing strangers about God in her backyard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I know. But I’m still a stranger, William. There are so many things I have to learn.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We were as strangers, in that moment—as intimate as strangers — for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew no one else, even slightly, and short of knocking on the doors of strangers there was little I could do. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I might have been a stranger starving to death, and there wasn't a soul in sight to ask which way to town even. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild dancing and the loud joyous singing and the generally queer behavior of these strangers seemed to him highly objectionable, and to be stopped at once. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights—and the money paid out in fees. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America, you walk in a store and spend a hundred dollars, and leave, and you’re still a stranger. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rude stranger in the supermarket—who knew what problems he was wrestling with, haggard and thin-lipped as he was—had intended to offend her but had instead prodded her awake. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His question took her by surprise, and she realized that, of course, she was a stranger asking for admission to see the King's Huntress on the first day of the season’s first grand hunt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at him, surprised, mildly offended, and thought it a perfect blog post, how this stranger had decided she was fat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As if things couldn’t have gotten any stranger. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the pain that bothered him; Harry was no stranger to pain and injury. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then the stranger held forth at greater length. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Like strangers. Or like the sound of people arguing.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We put our hands over our hearts to show these stranger women that we feel with them in their loss. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she had to know not to talk to strangers. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The ability to create an imagined reality out of words enabled large numbers of strangers to cooperate effectively. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear, we can’t go anywhere without her striking up a conversation with a complete stranger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He'd looked for a few of the friends he'd played with as a boy, but they were gone, dead, or grown into strangers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you it wouldn’t be a stranger,” Tom said. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omit to, if you wish, in a negative statement: Children ought not take candy from strangers. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it,” pursued the stranger in his most sarcastic and suspicious manner, “the printed paper you have just been reading from?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Bill could feel comfortable in that long gray line of strangers. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Drink,” the stranger said again, while Taran took the flask dubiously. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, Pita left our mother’s side and wrapped herself around me, as if I and I alone could protect her from the stranger Papá had become. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A contestant knows that his friends, family, and co-workers—along with a few million strangers—are watching. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

People wasn’t unfriendly, but I got the feeling they wasn’t used to strangers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid of the man who I'd loved, and how he had been a stranger. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Little though she seemed to think of townspeople, she thought less of strangers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I was busy getting ready for school one morning when Dad left and returned home in a yellow minivan, with a stranger at the wheel. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Dubose had overheard part of a conversation between him and the stranger. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger had depleted almost all but the last remnants of her magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mala says, and smiles, amazed, as I am, that there was ever a time that we were strangers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Encouraged by physical isolation to reveal what is most personal; determined at the same time to have my words seen by strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want them to see a stranger. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then Miss Spider’s large black murderous-looking head, which to a stranger was probably the most terrifying of all, appeared next to the Grasshopper’s. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was always a stranger to me, always somehow alien and remote. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t a stranger to me,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But she seems absent, asking how Marie-Laure and Etienne are doing with perfect courtesy, saying good morning as if they are strangers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The night she was caught, the Lannister men had been nameless strangers with faces as alike as their nasal helms, but she'd come to know them all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What was the sense of making the stewardess stand guard over us if she refused to protect us from strangers? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “It was stranger when I discovered others didn’t have theirs weighed. I thought they must be very uncertain.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

What better way to prevent that than by locking the strangers in the tobacco shed until morning? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three Rums!” cried the stranger, calling to the landlord. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gruwell’s college students were so comforting that they didn’t feel like strangers anymore. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought I knew who he was, but he was a stranger all along, and how do I mourn a stranger? We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was odd finding him in the house, this brother who was nearly a stranger to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

From start to finish I found no strangers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you risk your life for a total stranger?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And quite a long story. I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley’s like this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

That night, I had realized that he wasn’t the only stranger. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him rode three queerly garbed strangers atop ugly humped creatures that dwarfed any horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to post somewhere public like Wattpad, I would be opening myself up to feedback from strangers who won’t care if this is the story of my heart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The youthful writer addresses a stranger, the Other, with ‘Dear Diary’ and tries to give public expression to what is intensely, privately felt. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while I found myself smiling at total strangers because I knew that if I were to speak to them in English, they’d answer in English. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the shadows, the stranger watched Jack until he was out of sight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, he wasn’t a total stranger to me and my sister. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The stranger guided our horse down a cobbled walk to a stable nearly as imposing as the house. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m floating through the intersections, smiling at strangers, totally captive to my own triple-knotted stomach. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Though there are only inches between them, for an instant his father is a stranger, a man who has kept a secret, has survived a tragedy, a man whose past he does not fully know. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Her son, she said, who was in the army. How friendly such things make strangers feel, don’t they? She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a smile he copied out the warrior epitaph at Thermopylae: “Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by/that here obedient to their laws we lie.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I preferred to be alone, but the lure of the yunka stranger was too strong. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“My son has a new friend in America!” he started shouting to nearby people, some neighbors, others strangers passing through. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My skin broke out so severely that twice perfect strangers stopped me in the street and asked if I was having an allergic reaction. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a strange thought, and stranger still to remember that Bran might still be alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My brother’s a sort of poet, too, you know,” he said to the bristling strangers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than present himself as eager for the “entire strangers” to be captured, he is vague and contrary. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

How could I live in this world full of strangers and gray light instead of a country of cousins and family and family friends and year-round sunshine? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” repeated the stranger, looking round at the rest of the company with his right hand extended towards the witness, Wopsle. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Amil pulled me to a bottom crack of one of the windows and we watched, our heads pressed against strangers’ heads. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Indeed, a sizable faction refused to accept the fact that two unknown men, two thieving strangers, were solely responsible. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if it were my own home, I did not allow strangers in my tent. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No stranger to violence, he lost his father and two older brothers at Srebrenica. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have all come together to greet the stranger Mary. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shifting nervously in his chair, Cole nodded to Garvey as he watched more strangers enter and be seated. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Next time you see my sister,” she told the collector, “tell her not to be such a stranger.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if they were all asleep or if they didn’t hear me or if they didn’t want to talk of the stranger any longer. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It filled him with possibility, this chance meeting with a stranger, and the thought of the paths on which it might lead him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And what were the odds of being rescued for a second time by the same stranger? Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

If a stranger is hanging out in front of the building, don’t ever go in—just keep walking around the block until he’s gone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was not walking down a beach and encountering a stranger. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And don’t be a stranger! Them folks back home ain’t nearly as fun as you. Betcha we can stir up a right amount of trouble, sure we can!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her father had been dead for six years, her mother for ten, but that didn’t stop her from seeing them in complete strangers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“And you’re not supposed to be a total stranger,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His parents had always been very clear that he should never, ever go anywhere with strangers. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Evening visits by strangers were a regular occurrence at the Ashland house, for Harrison prided himself on being available to any citizen of Chicago, regardless of social stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Only on the Road would travellers be found, most often dwarves, hurrying along on business of their own, and with no help and few words to spare for strangers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Despite spending four years at Hampton Institute, she had rarely left the campus and came to the city as a virtual stranger. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that he gave his real name to a stranger. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother was a nurse at the hospital, counting pills, drawing blood, changing bedpans, no stranger to night and double shifts. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would myself much prefer to wait on just one diner, even if he were a total stranger. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because it was making Eleanor look at him like he was a stranger. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She waited until he had left the kolba, before snickering and saying, “The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you get, Mariam? Stories of ice cream.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In spite of the welcoming greetings and looks of excitement on the faces of the villagers, the strangers did not smile. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux began to rouse, but the stranger leapt on him, pinning him, or trying to. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tight circles of strangers were drinking and smoking, oblivious to us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And I had never ridden in a car with a complete stranger. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Jasper Jr. wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he knew that the stranger meant business. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was strong because I was supported by family, friends, and even strangers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

‘So-called’ is apologetic; even stranger is his insistence that the term is already in popular use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If you had looked closely, you might have noticed that Mordred’s manner in the past six months had become stranger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second stranger, the sheriff of Westing county, herded them back to the game room. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin and I agree that one of the smaller but stranger effects of 9/11 is how it changed our grandmother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I declared to my guests: “Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!’ The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before that I had felt a stranger, more frightening thing than hatred for all the Shirley Temples of the world. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Al-Bir’s walls were made to stop strangers from entering the orphanage as well as boys from running away. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I waited in the bright lights of the Store, jealous that someone had come along and told these strangers something about my brother and I would be the last to know. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I didn’t know this stranger,” Ted said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And with that, the stranger realized that he was being drawn, like it or not, into the conversation and, reluctantly, he stepped out of the shadows, detaching from them like a patch of darkness. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

To the sequoias everyone is a stranger, a barbarian. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger seized my arm and all but dragged me to the rear of the house. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because it enables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that did surprise her, that she couldn’t get her mind around, even now, was that she was having a conversation with a stranger. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“So if you want the call to be from a stranger, I’ll have to take the bus to Shadbush Crossing and mess up there.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He had a look of sad bemusement on his face, as if to acknowledge that no job in the world was stranger than that of a high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though a stranger that he’d sat down next to on a park bench had turned to him and begun to relate some intimacy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she felt that to a stranger who didn’t know about it the way she did, it might seem a mean and shabby place. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you apologized to that one. You must know him, unless you make a habit of apologizing to strangers?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The stranger didn’t answer; instead, he put his hand in his pocket, and took out two stones that were the same as the boy’s. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t sure if it would make sense if he told it straight, especially to a roomful of strangers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been away for more than two years, and the guy sleeping across from me was a stranger. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The arms of a stranger were a lot more comfortable than the arms of the sheriff. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

These, the regular injections of poison I was gifted from strangers, were definitely the worst things about wearing a headscarf. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The stranger was speaking of things that very few people knew about. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “I don’t get in cars with strangers, and how did you know I was going to Manhattan?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not trying to guilt-trip her, I’m just trying to figure out how we’re ever going to stop being such strangers to each other. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The strangers on the Berg had taken notice of the two people scheming in the middle of the clearing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We were strangers—though, as you can imagine, it did not take long for us to develop a feeling of comradeship, for we twenty were alone in a strange world. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But to find yourself in a strange land and learn that you have become someone’s chattel, property to a white stranger, was unbearable. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like strangers. I don’t like Martians. I never seen one before. It ain’t natural. All these years you guys hide, and all of a sudden you pick on me. Leave me alone.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mr. D was a stranger to alcohol, I was a satyr. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was a stranger in our family, even after all those years. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

No. He thought it was because he wanted Calixte to be right: for the truth to be stranger than anything they could imagine. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But once the threshold of “several hundred,” below which everyone can know everyone else, has been crossed, increasing numbers of dyads become pairs of unrelated strangers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good feeling to come into a strange town and find a stranger who knew your people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, his eyes glassy and lost like I was some stranger helping him out, instead of his son. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Penelope had never heard of Sherlock Holmes, of course, for in a fictional sense he had not been born yet, but she was a clever girl and no stranger to logic herself. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He wondered what Lord Eddard might have done if the deserter had been his brother Benjen instead of that ragged stranger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When they responded to the call for dinner, a stranger sat at the table along with Grandpa and Dale. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what I was going to say to a roomful of strangers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Trade cannot exist without trust, and it is very difficult to trust strangers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My baby. In there,” she informed strangers in the grocery store, pointing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Excitement and dismay attended the arrival of strangers, in a season when no boat had ever braved the seas round Astowell. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The image I see staring back at me is a complete stranger. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not a sad, tired Uhmma who cooked and cleaned and sometimes yelled, but a stranger who had a friend and a secret language all her own. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Because people just didn’t say that to strangers, out of the blue. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am on a strange train bound for a strange land, among strangers, many from far places, with nobody who truly cares for me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

"And what business is it of yours if I am only a girl?" snapped the stranger. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Every head in the Great Hall swiveled toward the stranger, suddenly brightly illuminated by a fork of lightning that flashed across the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was sociable when strangers stopped to wish him a good day. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the desk asked even more personal questions while Ann, standing before her, was forced to explain her life—with a special emphasis on her problems—to a roomful of strangers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger surveyed the scene, a small smile pressed into her mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m happy for Baba that his brother is finally coming to America, he’s basically a stranger to me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It tickled us to mention her name to strangers and watch the expressions on their faces. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I was a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames; but a second look dispelled the illusion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every time she thought about dancing in front of an audience full of strangers in four short days, she wanted to throw up or die. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how many other Deckers are hanging out with strangers right now. A lot are probably dead by now. Car accident or fire or shot or fallen down a manhole or...” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There, strangers were as rare as shooting stars, and just as portentous. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was a stranger who had appeared out of nowhere and wouldn’t say where she’d been, a girl stranger taking advantage of those “poor motherless boys.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The instant Abbey clamped down, the stranger howled and let loose of her neck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The two carried their heads low and darted glances at the strangers and shuffled their feet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Mellower had—many times—described the exact way a stranger entered a village. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I expect a stranger, but it’s Nick who pushes open the door, flicks on the light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the stranger turned his attention to me again, and I was not so glad of this. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Actually, he has a point, there, Father. It is a sin to expose your nakedness to a stranger.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Wherever he went in the Army, he was a stranger. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The boy, he is a stranger to Manifest.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He isn’t sure the strangers, who pass by in a flash, even heard him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of the courtiers present are strangers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She stared coldly at Papá like he was a stranger to her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I smiled for an instant, before my glance found the Hispanic-looking faces of strangers in the crowd going by. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swineherd there says that the needy and the stranger are from Zeus and he who fails to help them sins against Zeus himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped over the log and took off after her, eager for the excitement of a welcome party expedition, where you didn’t know if you’d find blood relatives, poachers, or strangers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” I say to the stranger, emboldened by the comforting shelves of canning jars and bins of nails and feed. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wilder and stranger than ever, her hair long and tangled, her clothes in rags. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a given year, some forty million Americans swap intimate truths about themselves with complete strangers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Relieved that it was a stranger, and not an elephant they knew, they drove on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes her eyes off me long enough to look at this stranger. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I said, “No. I don’t like talking to strangers. But I’m doing detective work.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet now Viserys schemed to sell her to a stranger, a barbarian. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I now refused food from strangers, fearful that it might be voodooed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you get too large, you don’t have enough work in common. You don’t have enough things in common, and then you start to become strangers and that close-knit fellowship starts to get lost.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t know. You see, I’m a stranger here . . .” “Lord, and don’t I know it!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gray day in late January, among perfect strangers all looking across the river with yearning eyes to a glittering place for a glittering future, quietly I become older—fifteen. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan noticed that the men were now watching one another as much as they watched the stranger. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d smile at the stranger, and Char’s heart would be touched. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sean and Finn were raised in a farm town; they were no strangers to growing food. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Though physically mature, Desdemona’s body was still a stranger to its owner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I said you can’t just barge into the funeral of a perfect stranger. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And to have all my words lying out in the open, complete strangers able to walk by and see everything that mattered to me, without even knowing my name. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were strangers nobody had ever seen or heard of before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think that maybe all of these memories are another reason I still feel like a stranger here. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Joe greeted me as usual with “Halloa, Pip, old chap!” and the moment he said that, the stranger turned his head and looked at me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I do not like looking at people’s faces, especially if they are strangers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not safe. Especially with all these strangers in town. They’d send me to the leper hospital in Louisiana. Nobody ever comes back from that place.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they patrol the boundaries of their territory, they may try to kill stranger chimps from a different community. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger was a big rabbit, heavy but alert, with a rugged, seasoned appearance and the look of a fighter. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep with a pleasant sense of security, an assurance of Karhide’s extraordinary and unfailing kindness to the stranger. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing Otto thrash made it hard to breathe, so I cast off the stranger’s hand and put my head between my knees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is? Just because this stranger shares a name with my uncle and goes to a math school, that doesn’t really feel like a major sign. Maybe if his name was Lucy.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The crisp crease of the rented tux pants seemed stranger than the broken room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

You weren't afraid of cutting a stranger in the face. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled at Adam, and Louis said, “I brought Mr. Adam Trask to see you. He’s a stranger from down east, come to settle.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And if there was a stranger involved, he was an invisible one. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw that it was not so; the man was a stranger, though as like to Boromir as if he were one of his kin, tall and grey-eyed and proud. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The stranger did not share his amusement. "—my former apprentice, Widge, in consideration of which I have accepted the amount of ten pounds sterling." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been better if it had turned out to be a stranger—a sixth or eighth grader I didn’t see in homeroom every day. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I never did find out why this stranger had wanted to strangle me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room the dwarf stood with his servants, and four strangers in the black of the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re strangers here. We want to know how this town got here and how you got here.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You left a whole live baby with a stranger to go get a record?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eumaeus welcomed the poor stranger, fed him well and lodged him for the night, giving him his own thick mantle to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s becoming a stranger to me, and I’m often nobody to her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Izzy and our other best friend, Paige, had also enrolled at UCSC, so I took some comfort in knowing I wouldn't be surrounded by strangers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ann went to bed first each night, before the stranger came in, and got up last each morning. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I am no stranger to nightmares, Sansa. Perhaps you are wiser than I knew. Permit me at least to escort you safely back to- your own chambers." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Stiffly, like a stranger, Sanders moved across the hootch and lay down with a magazine and pretended to read. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that would have been me, then,” said the stranger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Anytime a stranger commented that she looked exactly like Michelle Obama’s mother, she’d just give a polite shrug and say, “Yeah, I get that a lot,” before carrying on with her business. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought of a stranger, a boy or a girl, finding Amil’s pictures and wondering what they meant. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing very few people upstairs beyond the butlers, who were strangers to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the sight of a stranger, he stopped dead. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A few kids, all strangers, called after me in concern, but I ignored them, following the smell of mud and molding leaves until I found the lake we had passed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“A stranger!—no; who can it be? I expected no one; is he gone?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had become a stranger to myself as well. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was far enough from the Royal City to make the philosophy being preached by the King’s many advisors seem stranger than the fairy tales most mothers told their children. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screen goes black for a second, and then a total stranger with the face Rufus has in his profile appears. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mudd then attempted to send the manhunters on a wild goose chase, claiming the strangers asked for directions to a farm to the west. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if their early fire right out in the open was for cooking up a third stranger who wandered across their path? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It’s the only explanation for me volunteering that piece of information to a stranger. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was a very modest person, and this was going to be agony for her, sitting down in public, among strangers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Turu was trying to intimidate the stranger into a trade, pushing his nose close to the man’s face, snorting like the turu, the bull for which he was named. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The stranger was dressed in feathers and in furs, and there were small bones braided into his long hair. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But though Bear and I were strangers to Great Wexly—and I a wolf’s head—no one seemed to care, though they did glance at Bear, if only on account of his size. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you believe that two people, two strangers who have never seen one another before can speak with utter frankness and sincerity?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped, glared at me as though I was some stranger who had dared to lay hands on him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted desperately to step back into that role, the role of a stranger. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the time I was watching the stranger out of the corner of my eye. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone and empty in the mornings, it looked like an unopened present from a stranger. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the road it was a melee of shoving, strangers touching and shoving at me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was killed, indeed, but he thought the man who attacked him was a stranger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For days she has been wandering the streets, speaking to strangers,” another reported. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That would sound a lot better than the truth— that their own teammates despised them so much that they helped a stranger beat them up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents are always introducing me to strangers and telling me we’re related. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had a hard time matching the stranger's pace. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

This time a stranger was with him, a maester chained and robed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My fear was gone now and he loomed before me like a stranger, like a man I had never seen before, a man with whom I could never share a moment of intimate living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas focused back in on the dozens of strangers around him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Someday the woman might casually say, “You can beat her if you like” to a stranger, and then introduce him as her future husband. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could get more sympathy from a stranger on the street, but never mind. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Something the stranger said shortly after falling from his portal and getting into a fight with Flux. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even if I just did what I did with a complete stranger named Kim. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Take care, and don’t accept ice cream from strangers!’ The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Brent Chisholm’s big smile, put-together outfit, and ease with strangers didn’t fool me for a hot minute—those were all sure signs of someone with a well-practiced set of Relocation Rules. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The stranger reached them as silently as the fog itself, and he watched the proceedings unfold, from the shadows, and he said nothing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I stood up again in Engel’s cloud of smoke—hadn’t even ordered anything, just as well as it always panics me to have to speak French to strangers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m not upset I’m adopted. I love Mom and Dad and all of that, but sometimes, I just have questions that only strangers can answer.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To strangers it must have seemed he was hardly affected by the loss of his mother, but we knew better, we who could see the devastation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Would they have to walk the unfamiliar roads and knock on strangers’ houses to beg for food? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom almost shouts, "Since Tuesday? This Tuesday? Oh, Robert. This ... this is like trusting a total stranger with your life!" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stay out there, but I didn’t want to talk to my parents or the stranger, either. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He should have run into his dad’s arms, but he suddenly felt afraid of this stranger dressed in rat skins who was supposed to be his father. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the riders passed, Lord Jason nodded a curt greeting, but it was only a high lord's courtesy to strangers chance met on the road. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was so used to myself doing this that it had not occurred to me that it would be interesting to a stranger. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sword was now in his hand and the point towards the strangers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She pictured its tiny body washed by strangers, wrapped in a tawny shroud, lowered into a hole dug in a patch of windswept land under the disappointed gaze of vultures. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Why do you hide in the shadows? Come dance for the strangers!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women all stayed in the wattle huts, peering out the door, hiding their children behind their skirts, drawing back fearfully into the darkness of the huts as the strangers came up from the beach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then with her pink lip wart quivering and her skin-and-bones face lit up like a Christmas tree, she proceeded to tell what the tall stranger had done besides bring Miss Love a saddle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At least I wouldn’t have to live with a stranger. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She was a talkative person, rarely nervous, but to recount something she’d said privately to the reverend in front of a thousand strangers—it didn’t seem right. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The stranger had learned a great deal of the Incan mother tongue in the year since I had seen him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When he started conversations with people in elevators, or lavishly complimented strangers, she held her breath, certain that they could see what an attention-loving person he was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There could be no objection, however, to sending the stranger on an adventure, him and his winged horse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple people dancing behind him—friends, strangers, who knows, who cares—and this energy elevates me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The stranger had an unusual smell, but it was certainly not unpleasant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s probably a diamond ring. Five carats or more. Probably sent by a stranger who has seen me from afar. A shy billionaire who’s been inflamed to passion by the sight of my body.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked over their supplies, and they were good human-trap-making supplies, but...“The way Mr. Flux twisted and stretched when he was fighting the stranger. That seem human to you?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted there to be some other reason why two strangers would follow me home, some other reason why they’d yank my scarf off my head and try to choke me with it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He believed he had seen transmutation performed; he evidently thought it likely that the anonymous stranger who had performed it, in his presence and with his assistance, was an angel, no less. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some residents invite strangers to stay in their homes, sometimes for months at a time. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Do you know how many white strangers show up on Indian reservations every year and start telling Indians how much they love them? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mmuo themselves might even laugh at the sight of a pale stranger scribbling in a notebook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Among Negroes I was treated with the most incredible courtesies, even by strangers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be such a stranger. I mean it. You look good in a newsroom.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She dug in her heels and burrowed against the elbows, hips, and shoulder blades of strangers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was the last thought he recalled, because the next was that it was morning, and everything was stranger than Genie had even imagined. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were waiting for some solitary traveler in a decent car and with money in his billfold—a stranger to rob, strangle, discard on the desert. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early evening, when the cooking fires were lit and the first stars were coming out, a group of strangers arrived. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Hi, stranger. Long time, no study,” Wash called, grinning and waving. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger seemed more like a boy than a man. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she first pulled me into the van, I thought she was just shy and skittish around strangers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a family joke, a line devised by their father which usually made strangers laugh when they put the question. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tyrion found it disheartening to realize so many strangers were eager to kill him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We fought our way into the shelter, which wasn’t much more than a box of strangers packed in like sardines. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth looked at the tree but didn’t really see it; she was thinking about a complete stranger moving into the brownstone, into her bedroom! The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The stranger flung the book onto the trestle table, which held the doctor's equipment. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He came close to the stranger and sniffed, as Hazel had done. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the passion with which we loved the Lord was a measure of how deeply we feared and distrusted and, in the end, hated almost all strangers, always, and avoided and despised ourselves. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Francie that she and Mama were strangers again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger pushed me out the front door and closed it behind him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know how to talk to strangers, and especially not ones I admire. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I explain that at this point the taxi driver and I aren't strangers, but I understand her concern. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He does not permit strangers to touch him, just happens to be somewhere else. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you not understand? It's the principle of it,” he said, and at that moment, he became a stranger to her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Crowds of strangers applauded her as she passed, for no other reason than her royal heritage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was their way of explaining what they believed was white madness— crimes planned and executed in a truly lunatic manner against total strangers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little white stranger boy, near ’bout as old as me, was laughing and carrying on something wild. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My legs are so different from each other—like strangers that will never really work well together. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Pleasure doing business with you. Don’t be a stranger.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

People in his time of widely scattered plantations and even more widely scattered hotels had a reputation for taking in strangers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Boys!” the stranger said, his voice strained as he fended off Mr. Flux’s weirdly bendy limbs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

These are unlikely places for people to be giving food to strangers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Not quite a stranger, not quite a friend. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, it seemed I was looking at a stranger who lived beyond the glass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he saw two strangers... and the dwarf, who was standing a few feet away staring at him intently. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As children, I realize, we always spoke Quichua, and now her Spanish words make her sound like a stranger, even though I no longer speak Quichua myself. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Descartes tried to find this poem in the book, but the book and the stranger disappeared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew: Don’t open your door to a stranger, even if he says he is the police. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the stranger had already been to the spring, he’d been uncomfortably close to the whiskey barn. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A stranger might reasonably interpret my brother's language as a lack of respect and view my father's response as a form of shameful surrender. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That bothered him, but not as much as these quirky strangers noticing it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Adults didn't intimidate her, and neither did strangers of any age. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Around strangers he was quiet, alert, fading into the background until he was just a pair of hazel eyes watching everything go down. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Trees hide the moon, and Enrique does not see two men who are behind the stranger, or three more creeping up the other side of the car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Now Kira found herself alone with the stranger in the blue shirt. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she stayed put, her heart thudding, and went on gazing out into the night as if the stranger's stillness had infected her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The other four men were strangers to her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, modern Afghan women married to modern Afghan men who did not mind that their wives walked among strangers with makeup on their faces and nothing on their heads. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She spoke in a low, pacifying voice, stranger for being formal, but saved from falseness by the soberness of her face. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had not been trying to hurt his opponent “Who are you?” asked the stranger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bessie had no business there but was not a stranger to the floors above. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mother was confused, but she always has the good manners to be hospitalizing even to perfect strangers, so she asked them in and told me to run squeeze some orange juice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt rural blacks at that time were accustomed to strangers stopping at their house to use the bathroom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her players, some of them still strangers to each other, were high-fiving and shouting joyfully at the sky as they ran toward her on the bench. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They would meet again, because Reyna was no longer a rival, no longer a stranger or a potential enemy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I try to keep my eyes on something other than Jamie and my portfolio, but all the passing strangers out for an afternoon stroll are making me nervous. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before his tour, he was no stranger to carnage. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t believe you really wanted a stranger to join in. I haven’t seen that done anywhere except around campfires at night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It shocked me to learn that you had been left to the care of strangers. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It may as well have,” the stranger sneered. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that is why Tony looks at that photo and sees his father, and I see a stranger. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I groan, embarrassed as I realize that a stranger got me out of my clothes and into this Fourth-of-July gown. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I weep my relief into this stranger’s small, meaty hands and he says nothing now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now a stranger was taking him into a heavily guarded building— and advising him to run if police tried to apprehend him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She replies tartly, “I was going to say Wednesday after school, but you’ll be out begging strangers for candy, so forget it.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A stranger wearing black was viewed with cold suspicion in every village and holdfast north of the Neck, and men would soon be watching for him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It sounded strange, as if I were listening to the recorded laughter of a stranger being played back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteen,” said Maxim, “counting ourselves. No strangers. You know them all.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds him of Ruth, of the way they, too, had once lived in such close proximity as strangers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Howard was surely amazed at such a huge wager from a complete stranger, but he was not one to back down from a challenge. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’d been another day on the run, another day being woken up by strangers in our space, and then, at the same time, a day unlike any other we’d had. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Why does everyone on Cape Cod talk to strangers?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The first explosion came from the end of one of the unusual weapon sticks the strangers carried. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would lengthen and fatten and turn once again into a stranger. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, strangers! Your help is most appreciated.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

None of us wanted to leave her there with those white strangers, but Mrs. Huckaby seemed to be a take-charge person who would look after her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't stand here on the street corner and tell her that as weird as she thinks it is, it's actually ten times stranger than that, a hundred times stranger. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger stood just inside the doorway, motionless and silent. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If so,” said the stranger with fierce certainty, “it is an immoral mission.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A freckled woman unfamiliar to Cora—so many strangers these days—carried on about the lynchings in a loud voice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every so often we’d see a pen full of red cows or even stranger animals. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I am a stranger, without acquaintance in this place. I want some work: no matter what.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson was quick to hug her—her, Pearl, a virtual stranger—simply because she was one of Moody’s friends. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No stranger to snobbery, he even wore a silk scarf tied around his head to keep off the sun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It would have been the expected gesture for even the most inconsiderate or hostile stranger, and this man appeared to be both friendly and courteous. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger thought that her small talk was a way of covering her complaisance, so that when she began to soap herself he gave into temptation and went a step further. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Instead I beckoned him to come and converse with me, but he only bowed as if I were a stranger and not his sister. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was a dismal welcome for the strangers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps us talk about the predicament we're in: robbed of family, marrying strangers, bringing babies into a world that tears them from their mothers' arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it’s crazy different watching a stranger scroll through my photos. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what would force me to pick up a weapon like that, but it wasn’t a group of strangers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The stranger took off his sunglasses and glanced over at Dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had never had to try to make a pleasant impression on a stranger before, never needed anything from a stranger before, and did not remember ever asking anybody in the world how they were. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs would rather not contact his parents at all than grant a stranger access to his only means of safely communicating with them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You have an apprentice,” pursued the stranger, “commonly known as Pip? Is he here?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Riding a unicorn was not like riding a horse: it did not move like a horse; it was a wilder ride, and a stranger one. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They told of good people who refused to take any money for helping strangers, even though they themselves were poor and near destitute. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Vivian describes how it felt to be at the mercy of strangers, Molly nods. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how sedulously Ben and Mary Anne prepared for the nightmare, nothing could ameliorate their discomfort at entering a new high school for their annual pilgrimage among strangers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger came up to us in the queue, offering us a free ticket. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain reminded her of how useless she was; reminded her that a child nestled now in a stranger’s body instead of in hers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knelt on the carpet, listening to my father but studying this stranger, and felt suspended between them, drawn to each, repelled by both. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Dad got back from the morgue, he looked like a stranger to me, wild-eyed and nearly incoherent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It would be good to know how we may greet this stranger,” said an old man with a stern face. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Singer could not ever remember his friend so cordial to a stranger before, and he thought ahead with pleasure to the time when Carl would visit them often. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But on the remaining three traits of the Big Five, the strangers with the clipboards came out on top. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Nightmares—which I was no stranger to before the Games—now plague me whenever I sleep. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though there were stranger spices than salt in this sister’s stew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My shift was sticky with perspiration, and I smelled of tobacco smoke and unwashed strangers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes or so later came the sound of another car and I opened the door to Herr Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador, by now no stranger to Darlington Hall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, it’s like the brother I’ve known my entire life has vanished, and a total stranger—one with better hygiene—has moved into his place. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As strange as it seemed, I knew in my heart that one day her death would affect me, and stranger still, that mine would affect her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Moved by an irresistible impulse, Gatsby turned to Tom who had accepted the introduction as a stranger. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes strangers came to the meetings—white infiltrators who wanted to know what we were planning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Five does not seem especially likely, since murder by a stranger isn’t all that common. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"With all these strangers filling up Winterfell of late, there's no way of saying who he belonged to." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The boy was a stranger to me, but something about his dark hair and the shape of his features tugged at my memory. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He really wished she didn’t ask strangers for help all the time. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

‘Where do you come from? You are a stranger in the City.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This stranger’s standard serves only to set men against us. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The farther we get, the stranger the carpet underneath my feet begins to feel—the squishier it becomes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The stranger released me with a jerk, spinning me away from Mr. Ebgard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Abbey was close behind, spitting and spluttering to get the stranger’s germs out of her mouth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Marriage promises to turn strangers into friendly relatives—a nation of siblings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worst was the time a total stranger commented on my skin. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d never in my life laid eyes on a real fishing pole, but I’d learned from Nan that, when it came to strangers, less truth meant less trouble. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We wove in and out of the herd—so many people, mostly strangers, but everyone there for the same reason. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The stranger said it all so calmly, so softly, that it was impossible to laugh. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran did not like the way the strangers were looking at him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Biting into a tiny sugar-covered cake, I gave each of the girls the evil eye, letting them know Mamá was not a topic that we needed to discuss, not with a perfect stranger like Cecilia. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

That began to change as Lawrence embraced these strangers within the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her daughter had become a stranger to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Who are they, and how did their lives touch Westing's, these sixteen strangers whose only connection with one another was Sunset Towers? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a journalist, she was no stranger to being hung up on, but this time irritated her more than most. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At sunset of that same long day, a stranger came strolling up the road from the village and paused at the Fosters’ gate. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did I not say a stranger would come?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And then we've run out of conversation again, and it’s so strange the way an ill-timed kiss can make someone feel like a stranger. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead I tell myself that I am Dauntless and I am no stranger to fear. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Children are passed from one stranger to another. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I knew he didn’t look exactly normal, but I really didn’t understand why strangers seemed so shocked when they saw him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

One evening a stranger from one of the houses gave me a piece of meat pie, and I brought it home without eating it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the stranger turned back, Mr. Polstead lifted his head and forced a bright smile. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I bit her hand and we rolled, kicking, scratching, hitting, fighting as though we were strangers, deadly enemies, fighting for our lives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still paralyzed, his eyes staring unblinkingly, Harry gazed in terror upon four strangers: It seemed the Death Eaters had won the fight below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His parting words to me are “Don’t be a stranger.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mark took another step and then another, the strangers’ stares sending a cold tingling across his skin and down his spine. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I hold out my arms and he runs to me, grabs my skirts, and stares from behind them at this stranger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was sorting quickly through the boxes, making piles of people of my mother’s side of the family, then my father’s, and then one of faces I didn’t know, a growing stack of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Jamie is with his friends, and his friends are the strangers that are giving me an anxiety attack. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We ended up there in the throng under the thatched roof and I almost screamed when I realized the hand I held was not my mother’s but a thick brown claw, a stranger! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puddle of magic, compounded now with fear and surprise and worry for the child that was on the other side of this dangerous stranger, enlarged suddenly into a tidal wave. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He even walked me to school for two weeks afterward and begged me to be more careful with strangers, especially when money is involved. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now these strangers are here and milling around, and they must be the ones who own this property and this house. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They understood portals were doors, and the stranger was now on their side. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But even if they can, it’ll take a while. In the meantime, Lorraine says we might as well have the food and not let strangers steal it from our babies’ mouths.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She turns left and right, desperate to see my face, but all she finds are strangers and street police and soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My eyes dart from the edge of the bed, to the flashing images on the TV, to the door separating us from a herd of loud strangers. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Normally I don’t talk to strangers but if he can draw like this he can’t be that strange. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window at the trees and signs and the warm houses of strangers zipping past. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For three hours we move through the streets of Nicholtown, knocking on strangers' doors, hoping to convert them into Sisters and Brothers and children of God. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Then one more question, Thlayli. That patrol was on the track of a band of rabbits—strangers. What do you know about them?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To bury the dead was a most sacred duty, not only to bury one’s own, but any stranger one might come upon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closer, with the stranger straining his voice, the call was clarified. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was like being inside the most beautiful car accident in the world with all your best friends and a bunch of total strangers and knowing you couldn’t get hurt. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The story was a cover, intended to make it look as if he had no knowledge of the strangers’ identities. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we need to capture Mr. Flux! Maybe that stranger, too.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered what it would be like to be among complete strangers, with people who didn’t know anything about her and who didn’t expect her to be a certain way. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Eumenides, Apollo, chosen to represent Orestes in his murder trial, mounts a strikingly original argument: he reasons that Orestes’s mother is no more than a stranger to him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

During that winter my brother came home from Chicago; I was glad to see him, though we were strangers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time this happened she became a little more of a stranger herself. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The English Herr was in a hurry,” to which the stranger replied:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was standing by the window doing his best to ignore the stranger. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, through the window of a car coming the other way, she caught a glimpse of a stranger’s face, then it was gone, like a book you open then close at once. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His brother was still there, and looked at Matty with more respect than he ever had in the past, but they were strangers to each other now. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

We name the hated strangers and are thus confirmed in the tribe. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

No stranger than bringing along an umbrella for a walk on a day that feels like rain, even if the sun is shining brightly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One day, as she began to bathe herself, a stranger lifted a tile from the roof and was breathless at the tremendous spectacle of her nudity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They must get lonely, standing here all day in their high heels, spraying strangers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My heart sank as I watched long fines of strangers hurrying by. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mingling in this wide swath of strangers shifts my attention from myself, that tedious subject, to the world around me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It won’t take you ten minutes to get there,” a friendly stranger with an obvious Talent for applying blue eye shadow informed her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I was seeking you. But I am a stranger in these parts. All I knew was that you might be found in a wild region with the uncouth name of Shire.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Previously, strangers knocked on Martin’s door with messages concerning routes, and once, news of a confirmed passenger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I walked into the dining room and leaned against the wall, standing opposite the stranger. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I asked him if he was a stranger. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger climbs up the side of his tanker car and asks for a cigarette. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then the stranger opened his briefcase and pulled out a glass vial of white powder. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’d hoped to return to school after the holidays as a stranger, making my classmates wonder who the new kid was. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The stranger, played by actor Carl Frank, had been in the militia. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And the stranger continued to build it with relentless good humor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And all it would take to give them away would be a nervous child crying out at the presence of strangers in the nursery.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Did Mama run off and leave me with a total stranger? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they will often establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know what all he won’t do. We don’t know anything about him. He’s a stranger in the family and always has been. Pray God I don’t get there too late.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grasped his hand and pulled him behind me, cutting a path through the strangers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Know the men who follow you," she heard him tell Robb once, "and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For an agent of the underground railroad, presumably no stranger to peril and risk, he evinced a nervous personality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what had been scarier: the strangers trying to spirit her away or the fact that she wasn’t sure she wanted them to fail. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Gitl?” she whispered to the stranger with the shaved head who was holding her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth watched the crowd with big eyes and shy smiles for strangers, but she did not release my hand and kept her doll baby clutched tight to her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t write anything, like he didn’t know if he was a stranger or not. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of the impressors made Sefia hunch her shoulders, suddenly conscious of how exposed she was in this sea of strangers, these watchers and whisperers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Searching for him at this strange place with all of the strangers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were others, in all about a dozen, including Baba and me, sitting with our suitcases between our legs, cramped with these strangers in the tarpaulin-covered cab of an old Russian truck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Who in their right mind would hire a stranger to watch their kids when they have relatives around?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Where do I begin telling strangers about a place whose smell is on my skin and whose memory is always in my head? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed like everything the poor stranger said was a little more bizarre than the statement before it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Only a moment ago, the rabbit had thought that being naked in front of a shipload of strangers was the worst thing that could happen to him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She’s just dropping her kid into some building full of strangers, hoping he doesn’t come back bloody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The stranger, a young man wearing a black suit, white shirt, and bow tie, set his briefcase on the bar and asked Shady for a glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The clothes had been easy, familiar; this belonged to a stranger. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on July 28, Joe Bates, an Osage man in his thirties, obtained from a stranger some whiskey, and after taking a sip, he began frothing at the mouth, before collapsing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand the concept of paying a stranger to listen to you. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and walked over to sit down on the cot facing the raspy-voiced stranger. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was afraid of strangers and of strange places. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were also strangers to themselves who had forgotten who or where they were. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You be patient, Corporal,” he called to the stranger. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He slept better and enjoyed food more when surrounded by people, even if they were strangers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Blood relative or not, they had only met twice before with their other blood relative/stranger. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked on, the stranger pushed aside his cape and brought forth a wallet. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my reflection in the small mirror on the back wall and see a stranger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

People who never saw you before, and knew you were strangers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used total strangers who had never even met the students they were judging. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If the universe truly oscillates, still stranger questions arise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had frightened me, this yunka stranger who made my heart slow and revealed my scar to the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The stranger screamed and thrashed and flapped his arm until finally he shook free. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Especially for a man like Horse, the kind of man who’d drop in on a total stranger to cheer him up. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But none of her folk saw this parting, for they hid themselves in fear and would not come forth until the day was up, and the reckless strangers were gone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This was not a journey Matty could undertake with a stranger. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was surprised at her own lack of fear, wondered how it was that she so readily trusted these strangers who might betray her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now suddenly I felt as though she were a stranger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rick was a stranger—perhaps the four males thought he was hurting Jojo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a stranger, you took me in. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And we would waste the last moments laughing at a stranger, because we were already strangers to one another. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger placed his sword in its scabbard, and the boy relaxed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she made me promise never to leave the flat on my own because it was dangerous and because you couldn’t trust people in London because they were strangers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You will never, as long as the grass is green and the sky is blue, make me look like a fool in front of strangers!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you said them to a complete stranger, they would fight you in a duel to the death.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m a stranger here. I’m asking you where Harlem is!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, The two days since I first went to Central felt like I was living in some stranger’s life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Char I couldn’t stand being around so many strangers all the time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have some really bad secrets to share with someone, and it might as well be you—a stranger, a reader of books, but most of all, a person who can’t hurt me. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was nothing for it but to sit in my usual place beside Mrs. Van Hopper while she, like a large, complacent spider, spun her wide net of tedium about the stranger’s person. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Walking into the homes of strangers, sitting on their furniture, and drying the tears of their children was harder than cleaning up the sick. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve lost my composure in front of a stranger, and ripped open the sutures of my Bas-shaped wound, all over again, because they never seem to heal. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Any stranger who tried to tamper with the boat would be seen? There is no access to the harbour by public foot-path?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The two strangers didn’t speak again until they reached a door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It’s not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then looking around he caught sight of the strangers, and cried out in a dreadful booming voice, “Who are you who enter unbidden the house of Polyphemus? Traders or thieving pirates?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard, though, because I feel like a stranger in my own house. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Labrador looked doubtfully at the stranger, and Mackenzie stared back in open-mouthed amazement. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the darkness of his glasses Jones looked at the stranger. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the strangers to take her father away? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the room we shared at Devon many strangers had lived before us, and many would afterward. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then we made up a new game in which the object was to keep a stranger talking on the phone as long as possible. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Just a friend,” I said, thinking: a friend and total stranger. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Here, do come down from there and share a cup of tea with me. You’ve had a long journey, I’d imagine, and a rude shock, finding your home occupied by a stranger.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have this pins-and-needles feeling in my legs, like it’s me who’s forcing open the door of a stranger’s apartment, walking in, looking, touching. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And even stranger: they were all facing him. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

This man is a stranger, and bigger and stronger than I am. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before long she was telling this stranger about her anxiety in not being able to phone her father, and giving details of her family life, including about her famous mother, Patricia Neal, the actress. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Climbing the fire escape to the roof, they found no stranger and no clue of where he might’ve gone. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clutter seldom encountered trespassers on his property; a mile and a half from the highway, and arrived at by obscure roads, it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family and friends are wearing the red shirts, but so are these strangers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I felt as if my very heart was being observed by this stranger, and somehow his stare slowed the beating. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever done, it’s not as if I fell over in public, or yelled at a stranger in the street. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed tall and a stranger to him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger was not fond of other cats at the best of times, even his own breed, and farm cats were beyond the pale altogether. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes swept over the faces of the strangers in the market. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had practiced talking about his mother selling kernels at the store and buying the cake makings, his little brother and sisters being all right, no strangers coming past, not finding Sounder’s body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if I weren’t a stranger, even if we’d spent our entire lives together, I wouldn’t be able to stay in there with my father forever. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the stranger had wandered off; she could hear kids carrying on about messing that dude up, wherever he was. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The other day I went up to a stranger and asked if I could hug her dog. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now they talk to strangers, look for opportunities to help. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a private word, slangish, even affectionately vulgar, and, when spoken by a stranger, insulting, because it glibly assumed familiarity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the same town I’ve known for thirteen years, but I’m a stranger in a strange land. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Neither can I manage to talk with the many strangers who automatically seek me out whenever they need a cigarette or directions to the nearest Metro station. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I talked about Anthony’s allowing a complete—and completely green—stranger to accompany him hunting morels in the Sierra. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some might recall the boy he’d been before he learned his name, but Reek would be a stranger to them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Morgan, who once shouted down a stranger in a grocery store for wearing a Trump hat. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In the flood of light against white tile, the face and shoulders of a stranger—a fierce, bald, very dark Negro—glared at me from the glass. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say you need a wall built,” said the stranger. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was there, by brilliant moonlight, that Cox saw the initials J.W.B. tattooed on the hand of the injured stranger. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second stranger, who had hitherto lingered in the background, now drew near; a pale face looked over the solicitor’s shoulder—yes, it was Mason himself. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Forgetting that it is wrong to speak to strangers, I said, ‘The pods are made of steel and glass, not perspex.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It swung open, and a stranger in loose gray clothing shuffled in. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The dark, strong arms of a stranger paddled us forward while I shuddered with cold dread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sansa realized that the two stranger knights were looking down on her and Lady, swords in their hands, and then she was frightened again, and ashamed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She strains to look, but of course it’s strangers, just another couple combing their way through the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s fun, and he’s no stranger to trouble. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Coffee burn or car accident or jumped by some stranger because he was being too Dylan in a place where that gets you hit or something too scary to even think to myself. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Because here they are, the Monongahela and the Allegheny meeting Mom’s Ohio River, the two of them sobbing like strangers going as long-lost sisters for Halloween. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

What was he doing, he asked himself, sending Bri into the arms of strangers and preventing Julie from going off with family? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen ten guys from our school chasing four dudes from another school down a block and a stranger step into the melee with a bat to protect the guys who were outnumbered. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was taken away from me and brought up by strangers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stand at the curb, waiting for Ethan, skimming back through the whispered conversation between Father and the stranger. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He did not know how to explain his friend to this stranger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But here we were only strangers, in a place where strangers were rare. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the tales of other Indians’ encounters with the strangers were alike in the same way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With my eyes covered, I feel it again: this mysterious presence, like a stranger you keep spotting in unconnected times and places. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What if these two strangers in the woods were wiindigo people? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A more and more confident speaker of English, I didn’t trouble to listen to how strangers sounded, speaking to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not understand how anyone could take me away from my loving relatives and make me live with strangers who were mostly indifferent and sometimes brutal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He made a vague report to Lieutenant Dana: Two suspicious strangers visited his cousin’s farm seeking medical attention. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger in a threadbare coat, and he doesn’t say hello or ask a question. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For years the strangers among us had passed sullenly in the hallways; now we looked, we nodded, we smiled. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Hey. I don’t know the guy. I want to feel him out. I wouldn’t loan my car to a stranger. You think I’d send off my son? Out on the ocean, no less?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Sailing across the ocean among half a thousand perfect strangers conveyed an anonymity in which my grandparents could re-create themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t wild about touching strangers, especially given that he didn’t seem to have showered in some time, but I said, “It’s all right to be scared, Noah.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The young man looks at the stranger's baby. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Bran could fe$l th$ eyes of every stranger in the hall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The relief was tremendous, but quickly bled into something else: a heightened awareness of the stranger who was in his bed instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Faraday was dead, and Rowan was here, looking out on strangers that were here for his benefit. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was Izzy, just arrived from school, and both of them fell silent at the sight of a stranger. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gravity seemed to disappear as well, and he was falling through the window along with the stranger. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She stared curiously at the stranger who sat slumped wearily in her chair. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darcy smiled and said, “You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Abbey was close behind, spitting and spluttering to get the stranger’s germs out of her mouth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had been hugged by a complete stranger. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Of what it must have been like to wake up this morning and find me gone, only to have a stranger waltz in and ruin her hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville’s snores, he thought that Neville deserved it more than he did. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He would not even have time to say goodbye to the stranger his brother had become. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was still feeling cautious, and more than a little wary of strangers, but...Mama had taught her the rule of kin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At once these strangers whisk me off in the van. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw my expression as a stranger might perceive it, especially if it was framed with an unflattering message. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The morning was quiet except for the noise of the little birds flying from bush to bush and the cries of the gulls who did not like these strangers. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

One enemy, the rest strangers...this is not good, for cripe’s sakes, plus it’s midyear, so everybody has made all the friends they want already. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closer at hand a far stranger creature raised his head in equally intent anticipation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know that a stranger’s hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Why would the desert reveal such things to a stranger, when it knows that we have been here for generations?” said another of the chieftains. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feels like being a stranger in your own house, like everything that used to mean something doesn't anymore. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t concentrate at work, he said, and he had received taunts and insults from strangers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the gate closed behind him; and the bearded stranger was already helping Aravis off her horse. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t a cozy gang,” Kamen lamented in a letter to McMillan after the Rad Lab Christmas party that year, attended by scores of strangers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The servants were abuzz about a wager with some stranger who had come to the kingdom and bet he could defeat one of the most fearsome dogs with his bare hands. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The next day, I woke up in an enormous room full of strangers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The stranger did not recognise me, but I recognised him as the gentleman I had met on the stairs, on the occasion of my second visit to Miss Havisham. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

These strangers had to make her come back to them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One reason is the problem of conflict between unrelated strangers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing stranger told in any story than some of the events in their lives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I really do not think that America, adolescent and cocksure, a stranger to suffering and travail, an enemy of passion and sacrifice, is ready to probe into its most fundamental beliefs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s different for us. Emmett . . . these were strangers he happened across. It was a long time ago, and he wasn’t as . . . practiced, as careful, as he is now.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

How could she, a stranger and a foreigner, know that past? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t stopped looking at me like I’m a stranger, like an alien has taken possession of her baby girl. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Younger ones, jealous of the pretty stranger, tossed their heads in judgment. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The stranger wobbled, as though her legs had been turned suddenly turned to dough. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Kids in the neighborhood, strangers walking their dogs, moms strolling with carriages—even the two guys fixing the telephone wires. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t talk to strangers or go on side trips?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How could you do this? How could you let a stranger in here?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually with strangers it wasn’t, so he was surprised when his hands relaxed their grip on the crutches a little and his throat eased open. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This was the stranger who was to determine our fate. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There it was again, that stranger’s voice calling out to me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cain’t you just see my daddy and Uncle Camp and Cudn Hope if you walked in the store shaved? They’d take you for a stranger and sell you a mule collar or something.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then he departed, leading his guest, the lonely stranger, home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t dare tell Dad about the stranger grabbing my sister, because I knew he’d bail himself out of jail in a flash and go hunting for the guy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubose performed his part manfully. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bustling with people; all the strangers who had come to Wall in the previous weeks were there, and many of the inhabitants of the town of Wall as well. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This dog is too much trouble! He tried to eat my mother. And he stinks,” said the stranger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He hoped that they never smelled of sea salt, that they never heard the urgings of the ocean, that they were so lonely that being a stranger in them hardly mattered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Some time between midnight and dawn I was awakened by strangers, informed that I was under arrest, and taken by an armed guard to the Kundershaden Prison. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before Mr. Flux recovered, the stranger scrambled to his feet, whipping his head around, startled and confused. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At any rate I have lost my diffidence, my timidity, my shyness with strangers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord Snow, as Lady Val is a stranger to our ways, please send her to me, that I might instruct her in the duties of a noble lady toward her lord husband.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His clothes would make a preacher sigh and Hunter knew from the ladylike hands the stranger had never made a fist hard enough to smash a melon. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen that look before, on the faces of white women, strangers on the street, who would see her hand clasped in Curts and instantly cloud their faces with that look. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For another, wild chimps would probably kill them—you remember how the Gombe chimps attack strangers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Afraid of being reported by strangers or people I know, of being stopped by police and asked questions to which there are no answers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They were strangers who had met in a chance encounter. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore I concluded that Colonel Arbuthnot and Miss Debenham were in reality well acquainted, and were for some reason pretending to be strangers. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t make much sense out of her. You know she been gettin’ stranger and stranger after she come out the hospital. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’s too weak to speak, or even to wonder what a stranger is doing in her home. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was probably like being in an elevator with a stranger in that closet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could strangers come and search through our secrets? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third stranger, who had not spoken, turned toward the door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Charles discussed religion and science with Gray and other close friends, he demurred when strangers wrote to him asking what he believed about God. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned down another hallway, and she studied the stranger’s finely crafted sword. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bronze-smith said to that stranger, “You are no common man.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do we even want to find her? She gave us away. She gave Joaquin to strangers.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I once asked Madrina how she knows so much about the strangers who come down to the basement for her love consultations. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Just as if I’d rammed him with a car, I was consumed by the knowledge that a stranger was lying in a hospital bed because of me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Or a yearning to be surrounded by strangers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Blackberry and he had driven the stranger across the field by force, he could have handed him over for safekeeping to Bigwig or Silver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to the stranger and placed a large hand on his shoulder. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She was no stranger, but the love of their hearts. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The vague, secondhand report he would deliver would not likely cause the soldiers to leap into their saddles in pursuit of the two strangers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the children were huskier and more friendly to strangers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I saw at once that Falconer was no stranger to London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Habit? No,” returned the stranger, “but once and away, and on a Saturday night too. Come! Put a name to it, Mr. Gargery.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘Look here, Paul, it has been decided this work must be done by apprentices, strangers—folk little known about Boston. The East India Company may bring suit. If you are recognized ‘I’ll risk it.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger by now busy with the rigging, all of his thoughts tuned to the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was an ugly stranger who squinted with one eye. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One moment, her daughter was in her arms, and the next, she was gone, riding away with strangers, someone else’s daughter and lost to Grace forever. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We were all just strangers who lived together. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One of the stranger effects of fame, Elizebeth discovered, was that the public started writing to you. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

No—infuriating as it was, the strangers were best forgotten for the moment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, whatever the cause, I did not believe we could go on forever as strangers, knowing as little about each other. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The absolute last thing—the last thing—I wanted was to be pitied by a bunch of strangers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I found it, knocked, and a stranger answered. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The victims, all African Americans, had welcomed an unemployed twenty-one-year-old white man—a stranger to them all—into their Bible study group. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You want to work? Outside of the house? For strangers?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This stranger dared to come here and break her focus in order to command her to do what she was doing already? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The stranger tried to move toward me, but he was slow. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The skull seemed to grimace in defiance, daring a stranger to despoil the royal treasures. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Surely Day isn’t a complete stranger to everyone in Lake, and if anyone knows who he is, it’s the crowd that watches illegal Skiz fights. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Friends called out to each other and strangers were introduced and clasped hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The stranger had rumpled gray hair and an anxious expression, and was wearing a strange mixture of clothes; a pinstriped suit, a scarlet tie, a long black cloak, and pointed purple boots. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Soon Luma was running herself sweaty, pleasantly lost in a game with strangers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The portal the stranger had come through blinked away, leaving undisturbed air and sky in its place. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But when Beatrice Ziaty found out her son was sneaking off to play soccer with strangers after school, she became angry. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three months of living here and there, with strangers and relatives, we were finally on our way home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She fills my iced tea like we are the strangers we were meant to be. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Other things seem stranger,” I say, trying to make my voice light. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He did touch people’s lives, the lives of strangers, in an entirely unanticipated way. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It is said that a pained foot is a sure sign a stranger will visit.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Here, it looks as if people care—as if they’re always expecting company, so everything has to look presentable for strangers. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Why, others asked, should all their tithes go to helping strangers, to the extent of building a room to feed them supper? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was stuck in a stranger’s barn with seven loose chickens that no one knew were mine, and a hawk-chicken outside. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Threads of magic unwound from the stranger and fluttered toward Luna and her own dense magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was imprisoned in the flesh of an utter stranger, an unsympathetic one with whom I felt no kinship. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know whether my head was cold or that I didn’t want to remain uncovered in the presence of a stranger. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time wasn’t going to fly by, and they would not be enjoying the day because things were about to get stranger than usual in Logan County. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was always room in the safety and warmth of la familia for one more person, be that person stranger or friend. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't greet any stranger carrying a dress in my hands. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He picked at the edge of his chair as he watched complete strangers file in and choose seats. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I dared to look down and saw the yunka stranger holding Ucho by the neck, lifting him off the ground with one hand. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Aravis undid the door and opened it, drawing back a little way to let the strangers in. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he said warmly: “Greetings, stranger! Welcome to our feast. There will be time to tell your errand later.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a month later, when we were no longer strangers, I told him of what I had learnt. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the stranger considered the group of men, then, turning, discovered Jonathan’s eyes fixed on him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of strangers came through Macondo every day without arousing suspicion or secret ideas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Einstein had proposed stranger things and had been entirely right. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that this stranger could take such a sudden, intense dislike to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like the woman he’s spent his whole life looking up to has been replaced with a total stranger. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

So, even though the man is a stranger and I am afraid of him, I am worrying about his being sick, and the idea that he might die makes me feel quite desperate. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I also feel like a stranger to myself. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“My old eyes are not what they used to be,” my grandmother said, in the shy humble voice she reserved for prayers and for total strangers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In fact it was rather a small room, and the crowd of strangers in it was seven or eight people, all of whom were certainly as taken aback as I was for a while. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger who had pursued me down Maxwell Street in the dead of night, after emerging from this very building, had certainly been real. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He is not helping so I say, Yes, even though I don’t like talking to strangers. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat handed his almanac to the stranger, and turned back to Ben. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked in, looking less serious than usual, and behind her was a stranger, a beautiful young woman dressed in the People’s Liberation Army uniform. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger’s face was hidden by his hood from the red light, but Ged felt the unseen eyes meet his. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re quite a stranger these days, as the caterpillar said to the butterfly.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

My mom was my mom and George Finkle was just a stranger. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the first place, why should some strangers down the road be at our beck and call?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the dirt caking my fingernails, trying to forget that these were a stranger’s leftovers, I stuck a sweet in my mouth. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Normal people don’t panic at the sight of strangers. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like maybe I have it in me to entertain strangers too. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The words were out of Harry’s mouth before he could stop them; he heard himself say them as though it were a stranger speaking. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sorry to break it to you, but we are strangers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t kiss her she’d think I was scared of girls, if I did kiss her she might blab or Bugs might see me and tell strangers about what happened. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Clutching a handmade cross of plastic beads on a string around his neck, he leaves his chair and moves frantically from one stranger to another in the hallway. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At one moment she seemed to recognize him, the next, he was a stranger to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since only one person from a family was allowed to go, the passengers on the bus were all strangers to each other. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I remembered that strangers who arrive at a place where they have no friends, and who want employment, sometimes apply to the clergyman for introduction and aid. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finally Missing Tooth rediscovered the stranger standing in the doorway. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his many journeyings among strangers the boy had learned to sniff out danger and spot orneriness quickly. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The person of whom I speak is a gentleman, and a stranger.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I do not know what reply to make—these men are strangers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting down in front of a stranger struck him as uncomfortable, if not a tad dramatic. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she searches the room, like a lost child in a crowd of strangers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“To what I came here to tell you! The ambulance just arrived and now we have a stranger in the funeral parlor,” she said excitedly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s straight couples and queer couples and friends and strangers and families connected by blood or circumstance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At first Ashima is reluctant to introduce such items into her home, ashamed at the thought of buying what had originally belonged to strangers, American strangers at that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were efficient and kind, and told Kathy that thousands of people had been located, that they were scattered all over the country and every story was stranger than the last. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He stands in the middle of strangers who could be as hostile as the marauders that raided Kelton’s house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The stranger to Soweto shook his head in disbelief. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few strangers, great heroes, had ever visited it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a stranger to Serra will know that. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But even stranger was seeing my little village—which didn’t even register as a dot on a map—no longer quite so forgotten. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It means effectively not only that you must walk a prescribed distance each day but then spend the night penned up with strangers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Come!” said the stranger, biting his forefinger at him. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After all, we had been away less than a year, and customers whose accounts I had formerly remembered without consulting the ledger were now complete strangers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No stranger has just dropped by to visit me before. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so you agree—you walk with the stranger along the hot, dusty roads, picking up other recruits, who hear the same story. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“With no clan to nurture you. Surrounded by strangers.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t used to brushing bodies with near strangers. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But if you know anything about fights, the ones in a family are way worse than the ones between strangers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Baba motions us closer as if we’re strangers needing a formal introduction. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was a stranger there—they did not see him pass, they did not know what he was looking for, they could not help him search. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The stranger smiled on, but closed his eyes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not used to reaching out to strangers like this. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If I sit in the middle, a stranger could sit next to me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was struggling to make himself hope for the stranger’s success, no doubt. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went swiftly away, leaving the strangers in the watchful keeping of his comrades. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, I’m not really shy or nothing, but Monday was just better at talking to strangers. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The doctor and I were in the apothecary when the housekeeper showed the stranger in. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He is somewhere in Queens, I want to believe, lodged safely among any of those strangers whose names so people his mind. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, it appears, some of them, and the most important ones at that, are total strangers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dieter had been through several boot camps and was no stranger to abuse. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even stranger, the view outside was of the middle of the day. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Twenty or more Chinese, imported from Pajaro, a few bums, six or eight drummers, who, being strangers, were not warned, fell into the police net, were booked, jailed, and in the morning fined and released. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Etty later wrote that strangers were sometimes put off by her seeming sternness, though she wasn’t actually stern at all. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We knew each other. We’ve always known each other. We’ve never been strangers the way most people are when they meet and start going out. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On balance, then, the strangers ended up doing a much better job. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And I got messages from strangers around the world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was scarcely able to believe that we had reached our destination, but the stranger dismounted and snapped, "Don't sit there like a dolt; get down!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mudd told the soldiers the bare bones of what had happened: Two strangers on horseback arrived near daybreak, one had a broken leg, and he set the bone. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No incisions,” Yossarian said, perceiving through the lifting fog of insensibility that the two strangers were ready to begin cutting him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At last they were strangers, their pasts were forgotten. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They weren’t likely to be instantly suspicious of strangers, but it was small enough that everyone knew by looking at you that you weren’t one of the locals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But now, my brave young friend, a question or two about the stranger. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped that the stranger would stay out of my dreams this night. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His beard was laid like snow upon his knees; but his eyes still burned with a bright light, glinting as he gazed at the strangers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Until midnight the strangers, disguised as bedouins, took part in the delirium and even enriched it with sumptuous fireworks and acrobatic skills that made one think of the art of the gypsies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I stepped in—a stunned and feral stranger—and now I'm someone she knows, and I need to stay that way. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The eyes of the stranger watched as the skirt dropped to the wet ground. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pretend daddy read the signs to my pretend brother and sister and we all sat at a long table with strangers on both sides of us. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Put you in a room right next to the one where they’ll strap you to that gurney, stick those needles in your arm, and let you die in front of a room full of strangers. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When strangers fight, few people present will be friends or relatives of both combatants, with self-interest in stopping the fight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three or four can travel quickly and aren’t conspicuous: and the Chief Rabbit of this warren would be less likely to object to a few strangers coming with a civil request.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah? Well, stranger things have happened around this place,” Mr. Levy said quickly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, okay. I thought you were a stranger. We’re good then.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But it came out sounding broad, perfunctory, like the token consolation of a kind stranger. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What the Blue Blazes is he?” asked the stranger. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I will not let them live for strangers to ill-use,” she thought— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had never been part of a stranger group. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My cousin doesn’t understand that I can be very awkward and that I don’t like talking to strangers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I trace my infinity charm with my finger, thinking of my phone in the hands of a stranger, or maybe even destroyed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Crossing the fields, the stranger padding trustingly at his heels, Mackenzie suddenly remembered the other dog, and frowned in bewilderment. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You really think I’m bluffing?” the stranger says in a raw, scratchy voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How I had stolen from the cash register and bought candy for everybody I knew, not just brothers and sisters, but strangers too and ghost children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chasca and Mama clutched each other as they moved closer to me, but most of the people stood still, curious to see what this stranger would do next. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The stranger’s face had a pained expression of stupor and he seemed to be battling silently against his primary instincts so as not to break up the mirage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I had to test your courage,” the stranger said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger stood, her loose gown billowing about her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When she was a skinny child, strangers bought Lourdes treats on the beach or on the main street of town, believing she was malnourished and motherless. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced once more at the distant mountain, but the stranger was gone, as I knew he would be. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The boy who looked back at the crowd with fury in his eyes was a stranger. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My helpful expression must have changed, There was a little pause, after which the stranger said, “Estrayen, the traitor. You remember him, perhaps?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was no stranger to hard work, but the thought of being cooped up in Miss Sadie’s Divining Parlor left me feeling a bit short of breath. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he heard the rustle of leaves, Bran used the reins to make Dancer turn, expecting to see his friends, but the ragged men who stepped out onto the bank of the stream were strangers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They move in and act like strangers, not neighbors.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The direwolf looked at him as if he were a stranger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hesiod, not much later than the Odyssey if at all, says of a man who does evil to the suppliant and the stranger, or who wrongs orphan children, “with that man Zeus is angry.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is unsettling, at the very least, to give a stranger access to things, like your self-doubts and your urine, that are otherwise shared only in medical or therapeutic situations. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger went on sitting with the same unlighted smile. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who are these nutcases who would volunteer for an artificially daunting situation in order to entertain millions of strangers with their half-assed efforts to survive? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were cold and rather rough, a stranger’s fingers, but her face was familiar, although it had looked younger and less anxious in the photograph. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was making him feel like a stranger. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“No way! You better be back. We’re going to go to college, remember? I'm not rooming with a total stranger.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d never announced it to a stranger before, and it made him feel happy and frightened all at once. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was probably too small to scare away strangers, but surely he’d bark in warning if someone tried to sneak up on us when we went to sleep. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The stranger sat down, shook his mane of dark gray hair out of his face, pulled a plate of sausages toward him, raised it to what was left of his nose, and sniffed it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now another stranger bringing news of another death. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The world seemed to get stranger and stranger by the hour, but the waning afternoon stayed stubbornly beautiful. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I dreamed instead about my grandfather as a boy, about his first night here, a stranger in a strange land, under a strange roof, owing his life to people who spoke a strange tongue. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he did care and liked the idea of strangers stumbling on it and wondering. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This was my opportunity to run to safety, but before my feet could turn, the stranger grabbed my shoulder tightly with his other hand. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In every picture, my mother was a stranger. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In fact I was reluctant to leave this land, which I had found, though so indifferent to the Envoy, so gentle to the stranger. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a stranger lurks close—maybe a drug person slinking toward the nearby train—Guapo runs him off with deep growls and bites. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The three in the grey cloaks were strangers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The stranger had a couple of dogs with him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Could he be that sure Julie would be better protected by him than by some stranger? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My parents looked puzzled to have their way gently blocked by three broadly smiling religious strangers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a good country for strangers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain cast a kind of pallor on the darkness, and the stranger was little more than a shadow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It felt wrong somehow, being pleased by a gift from a virtual stranger. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“If the warriors come here, and your head is still on your shoulders at sunset, come and find me,” said the stranger. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked, and an old man, a stranger with a few strands of white and rumpled hair, peered blearily into the sunlight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While he slept, a stranger walked up and began shaking the tent violently. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leave, and suddenly I’m alone in this stranger’s apartment. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The sounds of expensive leather soles on the cracked front steps of the old house on Westover don’t sound any stranger than his own boots. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

How he seemed at ease in the huge airport walking among strangers. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

So while I trod the dirty road, alone among strangers, my thoughts pursued a primrose-strewn path. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Lucas, too, was reluctant to help the strangers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger will be too easily remembered by this tight-knit community. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of following strangers around, we went to the movies and plunged our hands together into the six- dollar Super Tuh of popcorn. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A stranger stood up in the back of the room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the first time in her life she has slept alone, surrounded by strangers; all her life she has slept either in a room with her parents, or with Ashoke at her side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They remain strangers to the way of life the academic constructs so well on paper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Southern West Virginia society did not allow for barging in on strangers in the middle of the night, no matter what the situation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Chedu is always welcome, of course, but we don’t like strangers. They bring contamination.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s being treated only by strangers, natives of 13 — no one from home or the Capitol has been allowed to see him — to keep any dangerous memories from triggering. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She walked back to Asgard in the dawn and did not stay to watch the stranger build the foundations of his wall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If you balk or get suspicious, the slippery-tongued stranger cleverly responds: Fine, but I have fed you for the past few days, and you must pay me back. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Did these visitors to the Fair, strangers to Chicago, find their way to Holmes’ Castle in answer to delusive advertisements sent out by him, never to return again? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was always the worst at keeping things from strangers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The stranger continued to hold the sword at the boy’s forehead. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She discovered that she liked talking to strangers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt instantly relieved it wasn’t some weird stranger. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Diamant used her scarf to bind the stranger’s wound, and I wanted to be sick, but I wasn’t. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Still, Finn felt a little bit like he was watching strangers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Among them were beings who didn’t look human at all, beings like the mulefa, whom Mary Malone would have recognized, and stranger ghosts as well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And as Mariam watched Jalil shake these strangers’ hands, as she saw him cross his palms on his chest and nod to their wives, she knew that Nana had spoken the truth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Michael, the therapist, had given Grace a list of suggestions, but when she looked them up, they looked too forced, too false, a bunch of strangers smiling at a camera. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The girl who drowned the slaver cities in blood rather than leave strangers to their chains can scarcely abandon her own brother’s son in his hour of peril. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be making some inquiry of the stranger, who shook his head unsmilingly and replied in an undertone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Desperate to find where Bear was being taken, I raced wildly through the town, more than once taking the chance to stop and speak to strangers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I walked in with Allen and Kenny, Arnold was sitting on his screened-in porch at his round picnic table drinking his hippie tea with four strangers, two men and two women. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stench of gunpowder mingled with other stranger odors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was quiet between the houses and soon they entered the hidden heart of the city, where there were hardly any strangers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take a leisurely look at the person called “Anne Frank” and browse through the pages of her life as though she were a stranger. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He practiced a religion even stranger than Catholicism, but no one was bringing it up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And then I start again, because there’s no Helena, and there’s a stranger beside the bed, too. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The streets of Chicago couldn’t have held more faces, the faces of strangers, bobbing like flowers in a breeze, each one indistinguishable from the next. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Here was this complete stranger pouring out her heart, and my grandma was getting the message loud and clear. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Afterward some Children’s Home staff members praised me, but most of the strangers fawned over my towheaded brother, which infuriated me further. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Windy’s gone, and I’m alone with hundreds of strangers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Catharsis could only gather around the theme of love, which, considering that they were strangers trapped in an opera box, was far more uncomfortable than cathartic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a man to run another man down,” he said, and he felt that suddenly Louis thought of him as a stranger and an enemy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He is infinitely a stranger, and I a fool, to let my shadow cross the light of the hope he brings us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know I’m not supposed to talk to strangers, but this lady and her dog don’t seem very dangerous. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, from taxis and once from the roof of his grandparents’ house, he has seen the dead bodies of strangers carried on people’s shoulders through streets, decked with flowers, wrapped in sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Abilene, “I’m afraid that he’s not the kind of rabbit who likes to be held by strangers.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

When we're gone, time will forget whether we swapped spit with strangers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Like we so dumb we need some stranger to make us think about freedom,” muttered Luke. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing a cautious step behind me, I glanced over my shoulder: one of the strangers—a gentleman, evidently—was advancing up the chancel. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She twirls, her arms outstretched, her face lifted to a blue and cloud-puffed sky, strangers passing her, absorbed in her perfect, happy world. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“But my mom told me not to accept curses from strangers.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He thinks of his parents, strangers until this moment, two people who had not spoken until after they were actually wed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The black-bearded stranger turned back, his face still shadowed and unreadable. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it your real hair?” strangers would ask, and then reach out to touch it reverently. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The emotional and physical nakedness of my father somehow made me see him in a different light —he seemed a stranger, a total alien. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Still, there may be no connexion between this rider and the Gaffer’s stranger,’ said Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On leaving home I was able to fabricate a new and far more satisfying history, frill of striking, simplistic environmental influences; a colorful past, easily accessible to strangers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He dared to strike a stranger who was asking for hospitality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The couple's eyes are fixed on each other as they undulate on this sea of strangers, this sea of brethren. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Jack found hostile strangers in the family’s old apartment. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger stepped off the terrace and headed towards the river. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he gets to the end of the aisle and turns right and disappears I am left with all the strangers staring at me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her brother and the tall stranger in the hat and overcoat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could count every nod from a stranger who passes by. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had shrugged his hand free and walked away, strangely sad at the thought that she would end up with another stranger in her bed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I look behind her into a sea of strangers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Kids stood back, giving the stranger a wide berth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It is a fine thing that your son Robin is left to the care of strangers. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And then the two of us, before we could even get to our feet, saw him light a cigarette, grow tall, and become a stranger. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It “didn’t do” to think about—strangers here, harvesting “our” land. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking on, a stranger might think they were just being nice. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We sat kicking our heels impatiently; the strawberries were waiting to be rinsed, but we stuck to the house rule: “No running water when strangers are downstairs—they might hear the drains.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to find cute strangers in New York. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She was protected by her family, as they would normally have done in China if they could have afforded it, not sent off to school with strangers, ghosts, boys. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Who was this stranger inside her who kept speaking on her behalf? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When it’s dark in the Bronx, I’m careful about strangers. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The little otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Still later Michaelis had to ask the last stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer while he went back to his own place and made a pot of coffee. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was strangely disturbing to think that he was not the only occupant of her world, but stranger still was how her routines were already in place, after only a few weeks in Port Harcourt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m surrounded by friends, by family, by my teammates and coach, and by warm, supportive strangers. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They would give the strangers whatever weapons or pigs or cattle they’d saved from destruction, and the strangers would give them an outbuilding, the worst of their food, and some straw. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bounding across the still water at the foot of the old white one, he caught the scent of a stranger, the man-smell well mixed with leather and earth and iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I definitely want adorable,” he said, and with those words, it was as if this stranger had found Esperanza’s true calling. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sight of them when they visit Calcutta every few years feels stranger still, six or eight weeks passing like a dream. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first she was sure he was a stranger. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ethel went upstairs, as her father had done, to confront the stranger who lived in her house as family. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Danes sat sulking, watching the strangers eat, wishing some one of them would give them an excuse to use their daggers. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, he found Beatrice Leep resting under a shady mahogany tree in a stranger’s backyard. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never denied it: My ancestry is Mexican, I told strangers mechanically. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman had nattered at him for ten years, telling her endless stories, but now she gaped at him as if he were some stranger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The younger of the two was a stranger to me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lupita said loudly, “No, I will not write that to her, Salvador. It would worry her that you live with a stranger. If you want to tell her, you must write her yourself.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Mind you, I wasn’t yet privy to the private council of Miig and strangers when we ran into them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I walked home through the deepening twilight, reading, lifting my eyes now and then from the print in order not to collide with strangers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, as miraculous as snow on Easter and strangers passing out onto the ground, the small, smiling man pulled a stubby banana from his pants pocket and handed it to her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I didn’t know of anyplace to stop; Father had friends along the way but they were strangers to me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping by the stranger before they could do anything about it, Moss yelled back, “Go post about it on Reddit!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though this was a violation, though she would be furious if a stranger did this to her, she couldn’t help herself. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And the story of a mysterious stranger who no longer seems quite so mysterious and who is definitely no longer a stranger. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when they spoke, it was with the voice of strangers. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school they were strangers for reasons unclear to him, though at the same time he understood it had to be that way because she was Japanese and he wasn’t. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He may walk along old familiar streets and roads, but he is a stranger in a strange land. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never claimed I was,” the stranger shouted back. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing: I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can’t be helped. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles had written it for his family, not for strangers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, stranger,” she said quietly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Criminal Element had a lot to say about entering the home of a stranger. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Emma said, actually throwing her arms around the older girl’s waist as though she were a friend, not a total stranger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was like being with a stranger, one of the masters from school, perhaps, it felt odd. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She’d expected this stranger to say, as if she were a neighbor, “They’re as good as my own. I’ll make sure they don’t misbehave or be an embarrassment to the Negro race.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was better in public places, with strangers nearby, especially girls. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to strangers is not something I usually do. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I gave the memory of the stranger to my grandpa so he’d have a good one. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Discovering, while scuffling with an enemy at a circus, that adults would give quarters to fighting kids to pacify them, Louie declared a truce with the enemy and they cruised around staging brawls before strangers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I've been told since I was old enough to walk that I'm not supposed to talk to strangers, and yet here I am. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, hello, stranger. So nice to be in your royal presence. You know you ditched choir rehearsal Saturday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even in Veracruz, where strangers can be so kind, the authorities cannot be trusted. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When it came over them who the stranger was they halted in astonishment. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I knew full well that I wasn’t any good at tatting, having this fact confirmed by strangers was not pleasant. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And on the clipper they’d met the Gallivespians, who were strangers from the moon, blown down to the earth by a fierce gale out of the Milky Way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were sending me off, sending me away to strangers! Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got bored, so wandered off and got a bunch of embarrassing things and put them in strangers’ carts when they weren’t looking.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Occupation authorities will want to know that a stranger is pacing off distances and making drawings of houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was nice to have another person take the reins, even if that person was still basically a complete stranger. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mariam was swallowed up in the dispersing crowd, a tiny little girl in a sea of strangers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

On official business, it was she, not my father, one would usually hear on the phone or in stores, talking to strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad made it for me, and I’m not giving it to some stranger.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I would, in his position, if a stranger contacted me, claiming to have information, and then disappeared. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t worry about escaping notice of soldiers or strangers, just flew over the cobblestones as fast as I could. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It taught him how to approach strangers when he wanted to snag a spot in a pickup game. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

While the stranger ducked back and forth, Taran slashed and thrust, hacking wildly at bushes and branches. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

If a man, boldest and most intelligent of creatures, won’t wander from place to place, a stranger to all, beholden to none, why would an animal, which is by temperament far more conservative? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then the house will be occupied by strangers, and there will be no trace that they were ever there, no house to enter, no name in the telephone directory. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hazel Grace, when you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you... now, that’s the trick.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“So you really are the Thief Lord,” the stranger said quietly. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luna would have turned to look, but she would have to break eye contact with the stranger, and something told her she didn’t want to do that. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Something else, he told himself, something stranger than ever this time, is about to happen to me again soon. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was my father and yet he was a stranger to me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her ten thousand miles to live among strangers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Green and rubbery and bulky—one-piece suits that covered the strangers from head to toe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed too secret and personal to admit to a virtual stranger, but I told her, “Yeah, totally.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I stood outside the gates of my father’s house, feeling like a stranger. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

An old woman passing by looked suspiciously at the strangers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She spooned three bowls of steaming food for them—corn pudding and roasted rabbit—acting as if greeting strangers was what she did every morning. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were one or two murmurs of dissent, that a stranger who was not a shrew should have first say. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“In a locked graveyard, at night?” said the stranger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Popped out of his stupor by relief that his mother was no longer an evil pinching stranger, Otto leaped and put his arms around my neck, pulling close and staring intensely back at Bouain. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But two other important words for man have stranger sources. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled, and when Grandma and I yanked open the door a stranger was standing on the porch mat, like one of those church ladies dressed in shiny shoes and a Sunday hat. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to strangers about Peach seemed impossible, almost like a betrayal. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes probed, as if they would force me to speak my secrets, much as the yunka stranger had made me reveal my face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Migrants huddle between the cars or with strangers, seeking protection from the biting wind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When the neighbors offered me food, I refused, already ashamed that so often in my life I had to be fed by strangers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

What playmates he had withdrew from him and never returned, disposed, as they were, to distrust all strangers, especially one who had already deceived them by pretending to be someone they had known for years. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She showed me the photograph and I looked at the faces of strangers, smiling and waving at the camera. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mariam, who had never been inside a restaurant, found it odd at first to sit in a crowded room with so many strangers, to lift her burqa to put morsels of food into her mouth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And how their lights, unceasing, crashed on and off above him, and how he was a stranger there. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They reached a spot where the slightest outline of rectangular light marked the door through which the two strangers from the Berg had gone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But as I listened to their exchanges, it became apparent they were strangers who had just happened upon one another here on this spot behind me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the idea of my wish getting mixed up with hundreds and hundreds of strangers’ hopes made me drop the penny back into my purse. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He was suddenly in a roomful of strangers and he decided to do nothing at all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A pig is a pig,” said the stranger, “and a pig-boy is a pig-boy. Run and tell your master I am here,” he ordered. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled at me and cooed, but I knew I would soon be a stranger to her again. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The love interest and climax would come when a man and a lady, both strangers, got to talking together on the train going back east. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Having been raised around men who were down on their luck, I was no stranger to the sight of alcohol. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It amazed me even as it was happening how immediately I’d fallen in with this stranger’s mission, whatever it was. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered calling strangers “Mother,” “Sister”, “Brother,” because his village’s Creole demanded a family title for everyone he addressed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He seemed either ill or very much depressed, and the strangers avoided him instinctively. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them walk pairs of men who fought side by side, but most are strangers to one another, and all have seen things they wish to forget. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You could get hot clay skin treatments, if you didn’t mind strangers touching you. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He mentions that one stranger had a broken leg and that he had done the neighborly thing by splinting it before sending the men on their way. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I can build you a wall,” said the stranger. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I turned enough to see her hovering over me, and for the first time, I saw her as more of a protector than a stranger. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"I suppose not," Theon replied, before it occurred to him that some would call him a stranger as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wopsle was beginning, “I can only say—” when the stranger stopped him. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Listening to Ellen, a stranger would have almost believed that the marriage, which subsequent events would indicate had not even been mentioned between the young people and the parents, had been actually performed. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

These fellows in the stands were known to him, they were classmates, but suddenly they’d become strangers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honor is very big with them; they’d rather be eaten alive than be bailed out by strangers. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what he’d have done, alone among strangers in his pod. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives me a funny glance; I don't know if they're used to getting strangers in here, and I must still be pale and sick-looking. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I do hope you will not make a habit of it, or Frankie will have to find alternative housing. I will not abide by strangers in my home.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside the curved container of their daughter's womb, a stranger is growing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then another thought took root, one that was even stranger than the fact that a god was her dad. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I struggled to free myself from the strangers’ grips, snarling words I didn’t know, in a language I had never learned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I did not have any more nightmares, but I always woke confused, thinking I was surrounded by people I knew, instead of sick strangers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming home from grammar school with new friends, I would hear it, its reminder: My new intimates were strangers to her. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That this woman, a stranger, could know her despair and desperation, and simply deny her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I can discuss politics coldly and analytically with strangers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sleep remain a stranger to this night Pray for me, Your sister, Celie. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog, particularly an exotic like Charley, is a bond between strangers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meantime my brain raced, searching for some way to avoid being handed over to this cold and menacing stranger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A little while later he saw Mr. Pendanski and two strangers, coming across the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a stranger. He’s easily my second best friend.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Is it true, what someone said, that it’s a million times easier to tell a stranger your deepest secret than a person who cares for you? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Blackie had been in the hospital twice and he got along great with everyone now, even strangers. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face twisted; he no longer looked like the stranger who had arrived in Asgard a season before, placid and even-tempered. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"That's what he said. Can you imagine me wanting to kill myself, and coming round to chat about it with a whole pack of strangers, and most of them no better than myself..." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now what’s all this silliness about rescuing that baby?” the stranger said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For the tall young man with the gay laugh, and the merry whistle, had been replaced by a hostile stranger, who glared at her as he said, “You just start and see.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By God,” the stranger said, “don’t they understand? If we don’t move, they’ll get through.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The closer we came to the land, the stranger and smaller it looked. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under an elder bush, on the far side of the track, two Owslafa, or Council police, were waiting; and with them was the stranger. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were strangers too, faces he did not know. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, Tally, don’t you think it would be even stranger for you out in Crumblyville? I mean, there’s no other kids out there this time of year.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“And then you tricked me into going into a stranger’s apartment.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I listened to all the talk of Penikese—outside the grocery, in the post office yard—and counted the hours until all those strangers tired of the hunt and went away. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even if a particularly fertile valley could feed 500 archaic Sapiens, there was no way that so many strangers could live together. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was Baucis, she told the strangers, and her husband was called Philemon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaped forward and saw that one was Kino and the other a stranger with dark shiny fluid leaking from his throat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part I attributed my growing unease to the fact that I’d never climbed as a member of such a large group—a group of complete strangers, no less. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Word that someone needed asylum would reach her unexpectedly, often through a stranger who approached her on the street and who she imagined had been sent by Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Familiar words from a stranger or Fig’s empty food dish wasn’t going to make me feel okay. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The stranger withdrew the sword from the boy’s forehead, and the boy felt immensely relieved. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She will be a stranger to town, dropped off at the library while her mother visited an old colleague. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even the groan from the cot did not break the lock of the stranger’s stare. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were brothers: strangers in a strange land who had banded together for mutual help and protection. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under a stranger's eye, I know it won't look so good. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We both got quiet, like we just realized that we were having a conversation with a total stranger who maybe didn’t feel so much like a stranger anymore. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

How could he, a yunka stranger, feel that he was worthy to go there? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the hospital, friends and even total strangers visited Lilya and brought her candy and other little presents. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They gave him a little to drink and eat, and he lay back again, always watching the stranger with dark wondering eyes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some persons I sat beside day after day, yet we passed silently at the end of the day, strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curate looked no different than the strangers he practiced on every day—and for a moment, he felt himself out on the lawn in the middle of a killcraft exercise. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“How de body,” I continued, shaking hands with the stranger. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I thought of the stranger who’d grabbed Abbey at the marina. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

From some of the glares I got walking up the board sidewalk, I figured these folks would rather suffer through hard times on their own than have a stranger come in to witness their misery. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was the smart girl who schemed to get out of schoolwork, but also a stranger who suggested hanging out with someone new. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But now she's skipped over the hoping part and is acting totally sure that this stranger is my relative after one quick glance. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He had never flown to anyone before, not even to members of my family, and here he was suddenly perched on the shoulder of a complete stranger. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths so that he could "come over" some afternoon to a stranger's garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He matched gazes with the disfigured stranger, staring into those piercing, wounded eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The stranger goes after her, but Mark’s on him again, diving shoulder-first into his gut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Since Bunny’s funeral several strangers—including the secretary in the Social Sciences office—had approached me and tried to pick me for information. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No, I limp because I had polio as a child,” the stranger would reply. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Called, I say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One of the stranger things that we just came to accept was that no one seemed to know exactly where the food was coming from. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, a quiet night there, in the loft, William Still was talking to J. Miller McKim, and to Harriet, when a stranger entered the office. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early-rising men not only do not talk much to strangers, they barely talk to one another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems you have been out after such?” asked the stranger. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Be nice, be respectful,” Mr. Watson told the stranger. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear himself talking as he worked, almost as though he were a stranger listening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed grimly, as he lifted his heavy lids for a moment and gazed on the strangers with dark eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A dying woman in a cot surrounded by strangers was sorrowful, but a dying woman surrounded by her children, her handiwork, the home where she worked so hard, left me in tears. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A good night to you,” said the stranger whom Jack had taken for a caretaker. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Despite Aunt Ivy’s constant warnings not to talk to strangers, here, in the tight community of the Great Northern Railway car, it seemed bad manners not to answer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

‘Don’t believe what strangers say of themselves either! I am not a fighter. But it would be politer in any case for the challenger to say who he is.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Said he: “Two men are here—two strangers, Menelaos, but nobly born Akhaians, they appear. What do you say, shall we unhitch their team, or send them on to someone free to receive them?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger demanded hospitality for the night which of course the fisherman dared not refuse. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now look you here; you come here a stranger, an’ you see this kirk-garth.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And so here I was at a campaign picnic in Montana, leading a group of mostly strangers in singing “Happy Birthday” to Malia, who sat smiling on the grass with a hamburger on her plate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I loved my brothers, Elizabeth, and Clerval; these were “old familiar faces,” but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still warned her of all approaching animals or strangers, but he was wary of her ever after she lost her temper, and kept his distance, which made her sad. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Was this Rain, or some stranger who had taken control of her body? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The stranger cupped his hand around his mouth, shouting something that sounded like...manure for you? The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The young knight in the blue cloak was nothing to her, some stranger from the Vale of Arryn whose name she had forgotten as soon as she heard it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Imagine being a child and being whisked away from your home by violent strangers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She looked down at him as if he were a stranger. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dozens and dozens of strangers stopped to stare at him and to admire his silky white coat, his curly tail, his kind and radiant expression. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It is not the first time he takes in a stranger in need. But, he says, Jinx must attend school. Sister Redempta takes him into her classroom.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fact that he willingly, without question or protest, submitted to the witch doctor’s rituals made him a stranger to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But over there, I’d been Crow, just Crow, a stranger among strangers. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

For old times’ sake, for the old priest’s honor, I would have to kill the stranger. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen one of the guards before, but the other four were strangers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Anna, no one came in here? No stranger in a black suit and a tall hat?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She spun slowly, taking in the curious twinning of familiarity and the strange that was stranger in its way than the wholly alien had been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Inside it, she was an observer, buffered from the scrutinizing eyes of strangers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I would literally spend the entire weekend with a house full of strangers if it meant not having to see him again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One day there came from the south a stranger who was unlike any man that Shasta had seen before. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He heard how he sounded to them: the voice of a stranger, a white stranger. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the staircase, Seward’s son Frederick confronted Bell and the stranger. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, one morning the stranger falls from the fence and lies on the ground, on the other side. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the darkness,” he said, “there were ten; not nine. There was a stranger.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So. Do I learn today your true name, or do I still give hospitality to a stranger who hides behind a ridiculous pseudonym?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You should not seem my friend; nay, be a stranger. Therefore, go.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was a sunburst in the rift of strangers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The phone started to ring nonstop with calls from angry strangers spewing hatred and threats. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never go anywhere with strangers,” he answered haughtily and took a step back. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She uncoverd her face and, for the first time, looked at the stranger. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alys was childless herself but had been midwife to many and was no stranger to damaged young. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was relieved, but felt horrible just the same, because I told these strangers basically every detail of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She opened the door, prepared to admit three neighbors; instead, she discovered two strangers—men who tipped their hats and flipped open badge-studded billfolds. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was great wonder, and many dark and doubtful glances, among his men, when Éomer gave orders that the spare horses were to be lent to the strangers; but only Éothain dared to speak openly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Baptist church, normally home to only the purest of Manifest citizens—meaning the ones who had parents and grandparents and even great-grandparents born in this country—was suddenly filled with strangers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is not Grandpa, but some stranger is safer than being a mark for the monsters of lightning all around. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If a stranger discovers their existence, he is killed or so absorbed that he is never seen again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a phobia about the vidphone and found making a call, especially to a stranger, virtually impossible. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

All afternoon they went up to strangers and asked if they would like their bags carried. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole neighborhood will think we are stranger than we already look. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Did the stranger mean he was traveling there? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

People they know, strangers they don’t, claiming a line on their page. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Caleb could cry and carry on long before a stranger or a hungry fox could be seen. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I dutifully greeted the strangers and roamed my eyes around for his walking stick. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the man who piloted the men across the river, the strangers were unremarkable, just another band of bedraggled rebels heading home after losing the war. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In everything I do, I can watch myself as if I were a stranger. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The stranger was very clear we weren’t to take any more pictures, but didn’t explain WHY. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I had better not stay long, sir; it must be near eleven o’clock. Oh, are you aware, Mr. Rochester, that a stranger has arrived here since you left this morning?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was odd sleeping in the cellar with strangers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the lack of such biological instincts, during the foraging era, hundreds of strangers were able to cooperate thanks to their shared myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All strangers who passed through the streets of Macondo at that time had to ring their bells so that the sick people would know that they were healthy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Worse yet, as physicists discovered the intricacies of quantum mechanics, stranger and stranger things began to appear. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Are you not her kin?” the stranger said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Baby sheep, lost in the woods, must immediately search for their mothers—no distractions from strangers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The man was a perfect stranger—she had never seen him before.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I? Certainly, in a manner of speaking,” said the stranger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And now this ebony stranger had lifted that shadow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If the stranger sat clear over on the other side of the room, they could make like they’d just been talking. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There they are, moving about in my cytoplasm, breathing for my own flesh, but strangers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a new one, a stranger. He says he wants to see you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But at least it's family and not some stranger, even though she can definitely, uh...be a lot to deal with. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The dogs swarmed around them, snapping and snarling at the strangers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sumac leaped off the stranger’s shoulder and landed on mine. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised a stranger is crying for me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

When they saw the strangers a hail went up, and all that crowd came forward calling out invitations to the feast. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconnected by his little speech and he felt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd broken so many taboos today, leaving the house, standing in the open yard, talking to a stranger. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was dying to know the baby’s name but Mama seemed like such a stranger now that she didn’t like to ask outright. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger from the ferry offered no explanation for his presence on the island. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was moving so fast, so much money was being made, so many people were dying in Guam, and Germany, that hordes of strangers became good friends overnight. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra knew most of them from around the neighborhood, but a few were strangers to her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Her face was bleeding from the pounding blows of rocks and sticks and the fists of strangers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Most of the guests were strangers to one another. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I called out and ran toward her, only to find a stranger, annoyed by my cries. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I lower my voice, make it deep like a stranger. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The stranger took a few more cautious steps. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to marry a complete stranger just to keep the man’s province under the control of the King’s Guard. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was nice, but he was still a stranger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They couldn't drink more than I did, couldn't write poetry in notebooks and read it out loud to an audience of strangers, and couldn't use the words flick, freebie, cyberspace, progressive, or zeitgeist. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I’m scared of being in the park with you because you’re a stranger.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t take rides from strangers,” she said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z