"Well, didn't you notice how intensely interested Osric Dane became as soon as she heard what the brilliant foreigner--he WAS a foreigner, wasn't he?--had told Mrs. Roby about the origin--the origin of the rite--or whatever you call it?"英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
"Well, they ain't so bad. I like 'em better than most foreigners that have come over in the last few hundred years. One thing about the Indian is this: when he mixes with the white race he swaps all his own vices for them of the pale-faces--and he retains all his own virtues. Well, his virtues are enough to call out the reserves whenever he lets 'em loose. But the imported foreigners adopt our virtues and keep their own vices--and it's going to take our whole standing army some day to police that gang.英文原著 · 《Options》
We're too busy. And taxes? There ain't no taxes except for schools."
"Not for churches?" enquired the foreigner. "No, every man supports his own church or no church at all if he likes it better."
The foreigner was deeply impressed. What a country it was, to be sure! No soldiers, no riots, no taxes, and churches only for those who wanted them! He made diligent enquiry as to the Mennonite settlements, where they were placed, their size, the character of the people and all things pertaining to them. But when questioned in regard to himself or his own affairs, he at once became reticent.英文原著 · 《The Foreigner》
387.)
[468] -- This "general destruction" evidently refers to the conquest of Anegundi by Muhammad Taghlaq. [469] -- (See above, p. 8.) The date should be about 1330. Nuniz was here about a century wrong. [470] -- Delhi. [471] -- A common error with the foreigners. Properly speaking it was Cambaya which belonged to Gujarat. [472] -- Muhammad Taghlaq of Delhi.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
Round about where I live, for instance, two changes are taking place which really affect the land and all things that live on it, whether for good or evil. The first is that the urban civilisation (or whatever it is) is advancing; that the clerks come out in black swarms and the villas advance in red battalions. The other is that the vast estates into which England has long been divided are passing out of the hands of the English gentry into the hands of men who are always upstarts and often actually foreigners.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
And peaceful sunshine seemed pouring in at the windows of my life on the day when I stood in the aisle before the pulpit with a group, who, though young, were all much older than myself, and took with them the vows that bound us to his service. Of what was then said and read I scarcely remember more than the words of heavenly welcome in the Epistle, "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners." It was like coming home, like stepping a little farther beyond the threshold in at the open door of our Father's house.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》