1 You see," said she, "you are a foreigner.
2 The lady having perceived two enormous diamonds upon the hands of the young foreigner praised them with such good faith that from Candide's fingers they passed to her own.
3 But Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 4 Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 5 D'Artagnan had more than once related to his friends his adventure with the stranger, as well as the apparition of the beautiful foreigner, to whom this man had confided some important missive.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 6 The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
7 She had an idea that he would have to be a foreigner: not an Englishman, still less an Irishman.
8 To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 9 But he has a gentleman staying with him, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 10 The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a "new man," despite his nearly ten years' residence, and a foreigner.
11 The consciousness of her different point of view merely kept them at a little distance from her, as though she were a foreigner with whom it was an effort to talk.
12 He was still a foreigner, and he expected to remain one.
13 This, in connection with his costume, strengthened the good woman in the belief that he was a foreigner.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 14 They are certainly less particular with a foreigner than with a Frenchman.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger. 15 I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble.