Literary notes about foreign (AI summary)
In literature, "foreign" is often deployed as a flexible descriptor that can denote anything from a non-native person or element to an idea or influence that stands in contrast with the familiar. Authors use it to highlight differences—whether in character, as seen when referring to the distinguished yet enigmatic "foreign gentleman" [1] or when underscoring an element that deviates from the norm, such as ideas alien to the subject at hand [2]. The term also marks cultural and linguistic distinctions [3, 4, 5] and is applied in political and economic contexts to emphasize the influence or threat of external forces [6, 7, 8, 9]. Moreover, "foreign" can serve to create a sense of otherness or estrangement, thereby framing debates on authority, trade, or national identity [10, 11, 12, 13, 14].
- The foreign gentleman found it very large.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - is.—But this is foreign to our present subject.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The subject does not know that he is reading the foreign language more slowly than his own; this explains why foreigners seem to talk so fast.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - The prisoner muttered a few words in a foreign tongue.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - And she drew from a case cigarettes covered with inscriptions in gold, in a foreign language.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - —In 1855 three other ports were opened to foreign commerce—Sual in Pangasinan on the Gulf of Lingayan, Iloilo, and Zamboanga.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows - So far as possible invasion by any foreign power is concerned, our $14,000,000 per annum is an absolutely dead loss.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount - In 1814 he was created a British peer, and in 1828 he became foreign secretary in the Duke of Wellington's administration.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - The Washingtons, the Franklins, the Hancocks of Hungary, driven out by a far worse tyranny than was ever endured here, are wanderers in foreign lands.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - Manufactures introduced in this manner are generally employed upon foreign materials, being imitations of foreign manufactures.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - In the home trade, his capital is never so long out of his sight as it frequently is in the foreign trade of consumption.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Two great movements, as we said, agitate this distracted National mind: a rushing against domestic Traitors, a rushing against foreign Despots.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - These details, I think, for readers who are at leisure, are not foreign to the design of biography, and not without value.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch - All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your severely practical mind.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
