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First Lee has to work her way through that peculiar mix of distrust and disorientation that is the teenage outcast's lot.

Gimlet-Eyed Girl Grows Up; Preppies Poked and Prodded 2005

Work is supposed to save you from being an "outcast," as Pete puts it, but what we do is an outcast's work, invisible and even disgusting.

Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001

This was an outcast's work, he thought darkly, holding the hand of a female student.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

The foolish outcast's heart ached bitterly, and he stretched both hands towards the shadow, not knowing that he moved.

Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

In view of the fierceness of the struggle for food and the attitude toward the stranger among all primitives, the outcast's life chances were unenviable.

Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934

Though Carl afterward remembered not one word of what Bone Stillman said, it is possible that the outcast's treatment of him as a grown-up friend was one of the most powerful of the intangible influences which were to push him toward the great world outside of Joralemon.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

Experience has proved that few are able to see through the apparent evils of an outcast's life to the inner joy that comes of faith and creative hope.

Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism 1914

Desperately white and weary as he was, and dressed in an outcast's rags, he still looked every inch the son of kings.

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

His lack of hesitancy was born of his manly view of the outcast's blamelessness, of her dire necessity for help, and of a premonition that Ruth Levice would be as free from the artificiality of conventional surface modesty as was he, through the earnestness of the undertaking.

Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898

Her tender solicitude fills the poor outcast's famished heart with such love and joy that he clasps her to his breast, and, the door swinging noiselessly open to admit a flood of silvery moonbeams, they join in the marvellous duet known as the 'Spring Song.'

Stories of the Wagner Opera 1894