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Cela dit, * I rarely photograph l'homme* because in the time it would take to ask permission -- the stranger's spirit escapes when natural expression gives way to "do I look okay?"
Jules 2009
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These are children who leave their family's homes with little or no notice and arrive at a stranger's home empty-handed.
Tamar Abrams: Don't Balance State Budgets on the Backs of Foster Children Tamar Abrams 2011
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The stranger's stomach was large and tight and shined full and round in the sunlight.
The Bottom Field Sheldon Lee Compton 2012
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Such writings are not automatically of a higher caliber—a stranger's gaze can bring new perceptions—but their perceived authenticity has made the traditional travel literature seem dubious and old-fashioned.
On Holy Ground Alice Albinia 2011
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In 2008, after the couple's hopes of leasing a plot near Fairfield, Calif., fell through, they walked up to a stranger's house on an idle farm, knocked on the door and asked if they could lease the property.
Tractor, Laptop: Family Farm Tools Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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So why did he come to London on nothing more than a stranger's promise?
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I had an immediate desire to share this recognition with someone, to dig my elbow into a stranger's ribs and mutter, “Get the hook!”
Diagnosis: American Sally Houtman 2011
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Already she felt her daughter beginning inside her, just a little more beautiful, thanks to this stranger's DNA.
Spray-Tans in the 70s Susan Rukeyser 2011
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If I am quick, I may catch a trace of his boy's smile, testing itself against an older, stranger's face.
2008, What I Wanted JP Reese 2011
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She certainly never received Brownie points for her driving: She operated automobiles with a care-free nonchalance, once crashing into a stranger's dining room.
Saluting a Centennial Amy Finnerty 2012
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