He was looking into the face of a total stranger.
A second ago, someone was a total stranger in a big city; the next, you feel like you're a part of a community.
It felt like being in a room with a total stranger, not his wife.
While we aren't total strangers, I still only see her once a year.
There was no reason for a total stranger to come to the house.
A total stranger, and he had opened his heart to her at once.
She sure didn't want to talk to that girl, a total stranger, and try to tell her all these things.
Having total strangers walk in and out of my mind at will was something else.
She had been seen with another woman, who appeared to be a total stranger to her, not a friend.
He'd talked about himself to a total stranger for two entire hours.
I was a complete stranger, young enough to be his son.
You might be nice to a complete stranger and by chance see him again.
They were looking into the face of a complete stranger.
After all, what did she have to fear from two complete strangers?
He was a complete stranger, and yet she knew him.
On the one hand, I felt as though he were a complete stranger.
She looked at me as if I was a complete stranger to her.
He opened the front door and went outside, a complete stranger suddenly.
She was all business; he could have been a complete stranger.
The young man who rose quickly as she came in was a complete stranger to her.
I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger.
If I bring him here to the side of this bed, he will suppose you to be a perfect stranger.
But then again, even perfect strangers are impressed by the event.
Why should a woman and a perfect stranger wish him harm?
The man was a perfect stranger to him, and no good ever came of argument.
Local families took perfect strangers into their homes and refused to take any money.
"I've got better things to do than to go to a viewing of some perfect stranger."
They expect me to lie to you, never mind that we're perfect strangers.
"There are a few perfect strangers who worry me a little bit," he says.
"She got calls from perfect strangers asking her how to deal with this or that problem."
Worse, he looked at her as if she had been an utter stranger.
Family, friends and even utter strangers persist in asking why.
Why couldn't I know better than address utter strangers in such a way?
An utter stranger without friends and without knowledge of your country.
It might as well be the residence of utter strangers in a town which he has never seen until this very day.
Anyone you know less than six months, to them, is an utter stranger.
It was like getting a kiss from an utter stranger.
"I can help utter strangers, and yet I'm helpless to aid my own mother."
She had never felt this frightening sense of being taken by an utter stranger.
After all, who in her right mind would take that kind of risk for a complete and utter stranger?