stranger
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Among the best, the most popular and the most interesting: NOT AS A STRANGER, by Morton Thompson, was the year's biggest bestseller, by a writer who died at 45 before his book was published.
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STRANGER: And do you agree that we ought to divide the collective rearing of herds into two corresponding parts, the one the rearing of water, and the other the rearing of land herds?
From Statesman by Plato
STRANGER: There is surely no need to ask which of these two contains the royal art, for it is evident to everybody.
From Statesman by Plato
Now that she and Lovberg are happily married— THE STRANGER.
From King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays by Dell, Floyd
He behaves as though he doesn't notice the STRANGER'S presence, and sits down on a stone on the other side of the road, opposite the STRANGER, who is sitting on the seat.
From The Road to Damascus by Rawson, Graham
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