"I don't gen'rally let strangers touch my dog," the hired hand said.

Chapter Four I'm lying naked and a stranger is touching me.

Her skin crawled when she thought of touching her own private things after a stranger had touched them.

So the world is a wide shadowy place, with just a few times, a few corners, where strangers touch.

The stranger touched Micah's shoulder and let his hand linger there, just a second too long.

But no stranger touched Newton without saying they were sorry to have done it.

I felt her shock, both at the depth of my feeling and that a relative stranger would touch her so.

The stranger touched the rags and then spread his hands again.

The stranger touched the limp body of the youth, and the chains fell away from it.

Wondered what this stranger was touching that he felt so deep in his soul.