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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

  • 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

  • The stranger's stomach was large and tight and shined full and round in the sunlight.

    The Bottom Field Sheldon Lee Compton 2012

  • 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

  • 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

  • So why did he come to London on nothing more than a stranger's promise?

    Trafficking in Britain: 'For five months I asked when I would get a job, but all I did was clean their home' 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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