Stranger example sentences

” The wagon had hardly stopped at the front steps when the ironmaster asked the valet whether the stranger was still there.Immediately he put the porridge pot on the fire and gave him supper; then he carved off such a big slice from his tobacco roll that it was enough both for the stranger's pipe and his own.The stranger must have seemed incredulous, for the old man got up and went to the window, took down a leather pouch which hung on a nail in the very window frame, and picked out three wrinkled ten-kronor bills.“I am thinking of this stranger here,” said the young girl.For against the background of the same old stars Duttada had detected a faint stranger.Rajendra Prasad has recorded the upshot of their consultations — “They thought, amongst themselves, that Gandhi was totally a stranger, and yet he was prepared to go to prison for the sake of the peasants; if they, on the other hand, being not only residents of the adjoining districts but also those who claimed to have served these peasants, should go home, it would be shameful desertion.I felt gratitude for my life, my new friends, the kindness of a stranger and the loud purr of my beloved cat.Why do we not take the simple fact into consideration that the vast majority of mankind who are vigorous in body and mind are simple agriculturists, that they are strangers to these games, and they are the salt of the earth? Letter to Lazarus, 17 April 1915, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi.The stranger did not cause any trouble because he did nothing but sleep.Simply he glanced up, and there was the stranger, standing just inside the door, as if he had materialised out of thin air.” The young girl took the stranger by the hand and led him up to the table.The stranger had stretched himself out on the floor and lay with a piece of pig iron under his head and his hat pulled down over his eyes.Milgram conducted an experiment to show that individuals obey commands from people who are strangers.The ironmaster did not follow the example of the blacksmiths, who had hardly deigned to look at the stranger.” But the stranger said no, and no, and again no, and the ironmaster saw that he must give in.