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Updated: June 8, 2025
In the electric light there was something familiar and yet strangely unfamiliar about his features, and his keen, kindly eyes. "Why," exclaimed Peggy wonderingly, "it's it's " "Wandering William, minus his wig and goatee, otherwise Sam Kelly, of the United States Secret Service," rejoined the other with a merry laugh.
Superficially his work may look exotic and odd. Odd it will certainly look to people unfamiliar with painting.
Zell never before had said a word that reflected on her father, but in the light of events her criticism seemed so Just that no one reproved her. Mrs. Allen only sighed over her part of the implied blame. She had reached the hopeless stage of one lost in a foreign land, where the language is unknown and every sight and sound unfamiliar and bewildering.
The mobile features which had just smiled so radiantly expressed mortal terror, and the pirate, to whom even the name "Niobe" was unfamiliar, looked around him for the terrible danger threatening the innocent child, from which the woman on the pedestal was protecting it with loving devotion.
It is only in the Anglo-Saxon forum that a man of foreign birth and unfamiliar ways of thinking has to obtain a locus standi by making himself an object of physical terror.
There are really two great controversies being fought out between Great Britain and Germany: one about the ends of national policy, and another about the means to be adopted towards those or any other ends. The latter is the issue raised by the German Chancellor's plea not so unfamiliar on the lips of our own countrymen as we are now tempted to believe that "Necessity knows no law."
It is but a little while since that a gentleman who appeared at a party without gloves would have been a "queer" figure. But now should he wear gloves he would be remarked as unfamiliar with good usage.
He wiped a rheumy tear from his face with a lean hand. "Many years!" he repeated. He shut his eyes tight, opened them, and sat looking about him, from one unfamiliar thing to another. "How many years?" he asked. "You must be prepared to be surprised." "Well?" "More than a gross of years." He was irritated at the strange word. "More than a what?" Two of them spoke together.
Only now and again did he stumble and hesitate. This was when he was presented with an unfamiliar expression or idiomatic sentence. As the trial proceeded I gained an interesting side-light upon German methods and the mutual distrust which exists.
My mother on her first visit to Baron's Court saw a woodman trimming the dog-wood, and inquired of him the name of this unfamiliar red-barked shrub. On being told that it was dog-wood she asked, "Why is it called dog-wood?" "It might be on account of its bark," came the ready answer.
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