Careful Words

stranger (n.)

  I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Old Testament: Exodus ii. 22.

  He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

Old Testament: Proverbs xi. 15.

'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,—

Stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto xiv. Stanza 101.

Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!

Ah, fields beloved in vain!

Where once my careless childhood stray'd,

A stranger yet to pain!

I feel the gales that from ye blow

A momentary bliss bestow.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 2.