Strangers always patted one on head and said, "Whose little man are you, Papa's?" One dutifully answered, "Yes, sir".
Similarly, strangers always seem more interested in my past career, and they seem able to picture me more easily in that position.
Contestants in the Big Hunt are chosen by a punch-card-shuffling computer in Geneva, which matches pairs of strangers (always a man and a woman, just to make things more interesting) and sends them out to kill each other.
And the passion with which we loved the Lord was a measure of how deeply we feared and distrusted and, in the end, hated almost all strangers, always, and avoided and despised ourselves.
"The country of the tourist pamphlet," Nadine Gordimer wrote in "A World of Strangers," "always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful".
They are pioneers of experience, expert walkers who enjoy getting lost for the hell of it, outgoing strangers always looking for a new friend.
Even stranger, dogs always travel with their masters, yet there is no sign yet of Polynesian genes in the Aborigine population.
I'd broken two rules of social etiquette: never mention politics to a stranger, and always speak to the woman first, especially if you're a woman).
It is late enough that Manziel's grandmother Pat really gets going, talking about how a Manziel has never met a stranger, or always fights for a friend, about the good old boys who never grew up.
Donna's leading role in "The Runaway Bride" allowed the production team to focus on her status of an everyday person to explain her perception of the Doctor: a magical stranger who always appeared at the time of need.
