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1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. e3^v Long before I undertook this Work, I was no stranger to the Original.

1715 H. Felton Diss. reading Classics (ed. 2) 146 There is so much..Beauty in the Classics, that 'tis impossible to translate them so ill, as utterly to deface them, and quite spoil the Entertainment they afford those who are Strangers to them in their Native Tongue.

1721 T. Thomas Pref. Urry's Chaucer Pref. i 2 As for my self, I was equally a stranger to Mr. Urry and his Undertaking, till some time after his Death.

1773 J. Cook Jrnl. 26 Mar. (1969) II. 109 Fearing to run into a place in thick weather we were utter strangers to, I tacked in 25f^m water.

1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iii, in Occas. Refl. sig. E7 Though one that were a Stranger to the Art of Gardening, would think, that [etc.].

1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes i. 28 A great Book, written in some Indian Language, which he is utterly a Stranger to.

1741 R. Challoner Mem. Missionary Priests I. Pref. sig. A4^v We must be utterly Strangers to the History of that Reign..if we deny that they [sc. tortures] were in Use in those Times.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 43 Had any Person, a stranger to what had been done, seen the Stumps, he would have supposed nothing less than an actual Cautery had been applyed.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 190 They say, she's quite a Stranger to all his Gallantries.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 166 The enemy was still a stranger to our having got round Cape Horn.

1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 327 They are no strangers that new beans will..give a horse the gripes.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 39 ‘I am no stranger,’ said the Varangian, ‘to the pride of your heart, or the precedence which you assume over those who have been less fortunate in war than yourselves.’

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iii. i. sig. F5[3]^v I am no stranger to such easie calmes As sit in tender bosomes.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 172 There are many that go upon the Road, that rather declare themselves Strangers, to Pilgrimage, then Strangers and Pilgrims in the Earth. View more context for this quotation

1713 R. Steele in Guardian 31 Mar. 2/1 The Mother assured him, that..[her daughter] was a Stranger to Man.

1729 W. Law Serious Call iii. 32 A stranger to watchings, fastings, prayers, and mortifications.

1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 28 Seamen are..preferred, for conducting the barges and boats, to people entirely strangers to the water.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 262 They [sc. Polish cavalry] are strangers to all discipline.

1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 263 It grew up without the lullaby of nurses; it was a stranger to the patient fondle.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 26 This singular dialogue, in which he had assumed a tone to which his daughter was a stranger, and before which she trembled.

1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. ii. 34 A report..that his Lordship was shortly to return to Dale Cottage, set the heart of the Parson's daughter into a sort of palpitation, to which..it had been a perfect stranger.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 36 The dirty floor had evidently been as long a stranger to the scrubbing brush as to carpet or floor-cloth.

1843 Fraser's Mag. 28 654 He was described as a stranger to dissipation.

1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. v. 185 No man..would willingly change a business to which he has been accustomed..for one to which he would be a stranger.