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    1. The bolt barely lodged itself into Vald's thigh and was flicked away like a stray crumb


    2. "A few years, he's a stray but he hasn't been trouble yet


    3. I tried to pick at the frame of the grill so that I could steal a stray beam of light from the bulb in the corridor, but all that I did was aggravate the pin prick wound in my finger from the bullet hole in the trunk of the car that had brought me here


    4. How could I, a normal boy from the Beirut suburbs, a boy destined for the traditional path no matter how much I might stray in youth, how could I feel this warmth for a man who could as easily kill me stone dead as look at me? Breakfast almost became a dread moment, a mixture of the sublime and the abhorrent


    5. My existence was measured by the inevitable smallness of bread and soap, of the stray fist and the gentle word


    6. She sighed and turned back to wipe away a stray tear


    7. When your thoughts stray lead them gently back to the object of your concentration


    8. Boofy was a stray cat that adopted our family when


    9. I am indeed surprised by your ignorance of the presence in your own community of an internationally renowned rod-maker, and not fifty paces from this very spot! Might I direct you just down the boardwalk to the Mercantile? There you will find not this sad pole's equal, but its lord and master!” The Sportsman exclaimed; then added, “I'm sure the tackle you sell is adequate for the leisure fishing interests of the tourists or stray visitor who might of caprice decide to 'go fish a bit, since there's a lake here and all,' but do not impugn the truly exquisite work of master craftsmen by putting these on offer for anything but what they are


    10. on how to deal with stray visitors from the Other World

    11. stray arm popped up from the mix and was shoved


    12. The morning’s sunshine has been smothered by a blanket of grey clouds and a breeze is whipping-up stray chocolate bar wrappers in the courtyard


    13. Kaitlyn was silent while she thought about what was just said, and at length sat back on her heels, wiped a stray tress from her face with the back of her hand, then answered, “He needs to see the very results of his own efforts, without his having time to reflect upon his most extensive expectations? A riddle


    14. or a stray fingerprint on a doorknob


    15. splashed water on his face and pulled stray straw out of


    16. He had to force control so no stray thought leaked out, and then exude just the tiniest suggestion of a whim


    17. Not wanting to stray too far from the marine and his comforting presence


    18. "I don't see anything else stray in the readings," Ava continued


    19. “Ah,” I said, “Your focus impresses me, never the one to stray,


    20. “Is this a compromise?” I laughed, and tugged on a stray hair that was hanging in her face

    21. One can’t stray here and there too much, or


    22. encouraged a stray newspaper page to fly and land on top of the


    23. Her skin was covered in layers of dirt, while clumps of mud and stray branches peppered her hair


    24. She spies a stray cookie crumb fall to the floor


    25. Penelope studied its movements, watching its large paws and being careful to not let her eyes stray from those monstrous teeth either


    26. water in the creek, so they won’t stray


    27. “Are we clear about this? We may be invisible, but a stray plasma blast at the wrong moment will still cause as much damage as if we were sitting ducks


    28. She at last drew back the flap and emerged from her tent newly clad, flattening out the wrinkles in the soft leather and smacking loose stray dust and dirt


    29. While in college, my friends and I would adopt stray cats and then struggle to pay the unanticipated veterinary bills


    30. After too many of those botched rescue missions, I’d learned to keep my eyes on the road and walk faster when a stray tried desperately to latch on

    31. ” I scooped up the stray and turned my sweatshirt up like the kitten rescue sling it was obviously meant to be


    32. “You sure he’s a stray?” “Yes


    33. Anyway, she’s just a stray that wandered up one day and attached herself to us


    34. She fell to the floor and Alex glanced at her, allowing his attention to stray from Josh for a second


    35. While battling two rotten pirates with her sword and shield, Amanda had taken a stray arrow to the heart and died almost instantly


    36. How did you stray so far from your ideal haunts?”


    37. A large boulder skittered past, followed by stray bits of the main curtain wall doors


    38. “My sons, you have been very faithful in following close behind me, and did not stray, yet how is it you did not also follow my example? For when some came to inquire, you stayed silent; and when those with injuries drew near, you did not care for them; nor did you lend a hand to those with heavy burdens, neither did you point the way for those who asked for direction


    39. He’d be dead from either a stray or intended bullet before he spoke a single sentence


    40. ―Uncle Toms,‖ ―Aunt Jemimmas‖ or ―House Servants,‖ ingrates, all, who dare to stray off the ―plantation‖!

    41. He calculated that his only choice was to prepare himself to be the target of a stray bullet at his next destination


    42. Wiping stray beer from my chin with the back of my hand, I raised my eyebrows


    43. One or both cars would have to stray onto the shoulder


    44. So he used what he thought was a quite practical way of keeping track of his whereabouts: he took off his cloak and cloth shirt and hanged the white linen shirt on a tall yet thin green stalk; he decided he would stray only as far as he could keep an eye on his shirt


    45. Mother's kept a close watch on their little ones, making sure they didn't stray far


    46. A stray he had picked up and taken in


    47. The Count’s chauffeur was killed by a stray bullet when he was unlucky enough to have driven one of von Brechstler’s cars into a street where a street-battle, so common after the war, was being waged between two opposing factions of Strassenkämpfer


    48. If Saint John of a previous quote is the John of Revelation, then he knew personally what was the state of faith of the Ephesians during his time as bishop, and had used them as an example to warn others within the factions who had already begun to stray


    49. Apart from a stray dog or two, they are all strays here, I was the only one on the beach so I consider it to be my private little paradise, for now anyway


    50. He could “see” his churches begin to stray in small ways and sometimes large, and it bothered him in his helplessness














































    1. Our poor animals became uneasy and strayed and seemed to sense there was danger there, but all in all they kept themselves together


    2. At that instant the saw strayed off its path


    3. It’s because we have strayed from walking with Him


    4. But, I strayed from the subject


    5. Now that Homer mentioned it, she had strayed far from truthfulness


    6. It was barely three kilometres further on and, as far as they could gauge, never strayed more than around fifty metres in any direction


    7. It was closer to Danny's work than they usually strayed


    8. lost and strayed angle--but poetry!"


    9. Had I not been with them I hate to think of how bitter I would have become and how far I might have strayed from God’s righteous path


    10. Checta had strayed into Root's hunting grounds again, something she did quite often, and the fact that she only had three legs, and found it hard to hunt for food, seemed to hold little sway with Root

    11. The back wheel slid when he strayed too close to the side of the road, hitting a patch of wet leaves


    12. Her Father looked serious and he never strayed into the realm of fantasy and make-believe


    13. He kept the wise council of his elders, and never strayed off the road


    14. The thought strayed on her, but then vanished again for the joy of finally being with Elior again


    15. Because of that distancing, as told in the biblical account, the third generation strayed from the faith of their fathers, and grandfathers


    16. Then, each newly minted but lesser king, in his own way, strayed further afield than had the father, Solomon


    17. His heirs, seemingly a lesser breed, strayed to the point of destruction


    18. The third leg had strayed too far


    19. It has never strayed on me


    20. Strayed around in the forest, not spoken much, all was said in a gaze

    21. We have once more strayed from the target which was a comparison of Genesis with science, but the detour is worth it, as it is good to see it in the context of the book to which it belongs and in which it plays a part


    22. Davis had come to ask for Una in the full and confident belief that he would hand the child over to her as unconcernedly and gladly as one might hand over a strayed, unwelcome kitten


    23. A few glances strayed her way but he’d never been as bold as he was tonight


    24. Junior began to explain, but Ben's eyes strayed to something that was


    25. The tall trees made it rather gloomy if we strayed away from the open areas near the river and the various streams


    26. To say that I strayed from my upbringing would be a major understatement


    27. How humans had strayed from their natural spiritual path onto a


    28. For showing us the way, when-as often- we strayed


    29. Maggie felt her heart beating harder with fear, and her eyes strayed to meet Nicolas’s


    30. 2 And it came to pass one day that a kid of goats strayed from the flock, and Moses pursued it and it came to the mountain of God to Horeb

    31. 2 And it came to pass one day that a kid of goats strayed from the flock and Moses pursued it and it came to the mountain of God to Horeb


    32. No Venak naval vessels have strayed beyond their waters since their Wards were emplaced


    33. Having been thus brought back to the major problem that had brought him here, Moshe, hurrying out of the house to see if his horse had strayed, was quickly followed by those who so recently had sought haven there


    34. They merely wish to please and serve their pastor no matter how far he has strayed from the Truth


    35. hurrying out of the house to see if his horse had strayed, was quickly followed by those who so


    36. So your Father who is in Heaven wishes not that one of these little ones that have strayed should perish 8 and he seeks for them repentance


    37. They brought with them the perfume which they had prepared and said among themselves Who is it that will remove for us the stone from the door of the tombe for it was very great; And when they said so there occurred a great earthquake; and an angel came down from heaven and came and removed the stone from the door; And they came and found the stone removed from the tomb and the angel sitting on the stone; And his appearance was as the lightning and his raiment white as the snow and for fear of him the guards were troubled and became as dead men; And when he went away the women entered into the tomb; and they found not the body of Jesus; And they saw there a young man sitting on the right strayed in a white garment; and they were amazed; And the angel answered and said to the women Fear you not for I know that you seek Jesus the Nazarene who has been crucified


    38. But if He find anyone of these sheep strayed woe to the shepherds! And if the shepherds themselves have strayed what answer will they give Him for their flocks? Will they perchance say that they were harassed by their flocks? They will not be believed for the thing is incredible that a shepherd could suffer from his flock; rather will he be punished on account of his falsehood


    39. anyone; members of another expedition that had strayed off


    40. somehow I have strayed from the path that God laid before me

    41. that they have strayed away from the Deliverer


    42. Barrad’s thoughts strayed back to the many Su-Katii teachers of tactics that had tutored him over his many lifetimes of training


    43. This lodge was no chance encounter that they had strayed across, it was prepared and purpose-built


    44. Was her mind conflicted over something or was she just trying to change the subject from where it had strayed? Perhaps both


    45. was an animal that had strayed onto the beach, but it


    46. At first I thought it was an animal that had strayed


    47. A few winged ones strayed over


    48. To help God's children communicate with God, not to judge those who have strayed


    49. We’ve seen it zap and incinerate large wild animals that strayed too close, also a couple of fugitives that dropped off a balcony in the hope of making a run for the trees


    50. He wonders why the buffalo has strayed into the woods, usually buffalo stay in the fields, a good half-day’s run from here













































    1. other folk from straying into that area of the Tavern


    2. And on a wall in a smaller room were faded painted traces of dark fat grapes and twisting in through the window, grey old straying twists of some very lively jasmine, and even wild rosemary


    3. He kissed me a lot, and we enjoyed it until his hands started straying


    4. They had lingered in the great pool room for some time, listening to the rushing falls and allowing their thoughts to continue straying amid their memories


    5. With respect, you seem to be straying from the issue somewhat


    6. “The cloths will prevent the animals from straying during the storm


    7. And, in the end, the civil magistrate will find that he has dearly paid for his intended frugality, in saving a fixed establishment for the priests ; and that, in reality, the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with the spiritual guides, is to bribe their indolence, by assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering it superfluous for them to be farther active, than merely to prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastors


    8. With his mate and playmate gone, his straying days ended


    9. Darkburst's constant hunger was making him light-headed and he found it harder to concentrate, his thoughts constantly straying as he walked along


    10. The Bible tells us that they both took place as a consequence of the degrading of moral behavior, a straying away from the wisdom of the ages

    11. Is it true that Carl got pneumonia from straying out in the graveyard that wet night for a dare?"


    12. 2 Extol not yourself in the counsel of your own heart; so that your soul be not torn in pieces as a bull straying alone


    13. 2 And there came to him publicans and sinners to hear his word; And the scribes and the Pharisees murmured and said This man receives sinners and 3 eats with them; And Jesus when he beheld their murmuring spoke to them 4 this parable: What man of you having an hundred sheep if one of them were lost would not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go and seek the straying one 5 till he found ite Truely I say to you When he finds it he will rejoice over it 6 more than over the ninety-nine that went not astray; and bear it on his shoulders and bring it to his house and call his friends and neighbours and say to them 7 Rejoice with me since I have found my straying sheep


    14. I am deeply grieved therefore brethren for him (Valens) and his wife; to whom may the Lord grant true repentance! And be you then moderate in regard to this matter and “do not count such as enemies” but call them back as suffering and straying members that you may save your whole body


    15. Unfortunately I never had straying ladies to shadow; mine were all men


    16. would bounce across the arena showing off their skills to one another, but never straying


    17. What is strange is that the holy words from vastly different religions and organizations are all misinterpreted, straying in different directions from center


    18. Jane and Kaite are repeatedly told to stop straying from the group, a boy, maybe 17, curly brown hair has latches onto the party staying a few feet behind


    19. The purple songbird, never straying far from the boat, lit down on Jai’s shoulder and happily joined in harmony with the Dangler, but she sang in a mismatched range much higher than the fisherman


    20. He props his legs on either side of me, effectively caging me and forcing me to keep my eyes on a point above his head to keep them from straying to places they should not stray

    21. 'A settler's wife straying in the woods,' snarled Conan, setting down his end of the litter


    22. Many times have I told you the story of the good shepherd who left the ninety and nine sheep in the fold while he went forth searching for the one that was lost, and how, when he had found the straying sheep, he laid it over his shoulder and tenderly carried it back to the fold


    23. In the seventy-five years which had elapsed since he first heard the tale of empires from the lips of Arus – a long time in the life of a man, but a brief space in the tale of nations – he had welded an empire from straying savage clans, he had overthrown a civilization


    24. It was a god enough distance to go into the forest without straying too far into the heart of it, where the predators lurked


    25. She sent them in broad daylight and with instructions that they be carried through the middle of the street so that everyone could see them, thinking that her straying husband would be unable to bear the shame and would return to the fold with his head hung low


    26. we were all one people, and the straying from that oneness has led us to a path of destruction and deceit


    27. At first glance, the claim seemed utterly unfounded, as there was no indication that the woman’s death had been anything other than an accident, whether that entailed being thrown from her horse or inadvertently straying into quicksand on her own


    28. His problem was that perhaps he read too much into the visions, thus second-guessing himself, though he knew he would have to carefully decipher the varying attributes of the episodes in order to understand the entire meaning of it without straying down the wayward path


    29. Another glance, this time upwards, confirmed that the group of apparently straying objects had again rejoined the main force which still hung motionless over Central London


    30. “Is that what this is?” B’Etor asked, her hands straying

    31. Though she suspected she had leeway to go after Garcia, straying into the neutral zone at this time was not a wise thing to do


    32. Look out for any Russian embassy staff straying anywhere near Culham, or for any other unusual activity that could be connected


    33. I had learned early on that she had an unerring instinct as to where I should be going, which was towards the soulsound, as she called it, and if there was one thing she was determined to do, it was to keep me from straying


    34. While she was telling me this, my eyes kept straying


    35. But, if the relationship was truly fair and equal, why did he feel satisfaction about straying outside the boundaries?


    36. his consequent straying from the path of God-realization is varnsankar


    37. his senses from straying to objects has a steady discrimination


    38. pleasures within himself without in any way straying from his chosen


    39. Straying from the path that takes


    40. This is the turning point where the straying ceases and the seeker begins to

    41. Since the character (varn) of the Self is that of God, his straying about amidst nature is varnasankar: this is injury to the Soul and his deliverance is nonviolence in the true sense


    42. associated with them, feeling of tenderness, shame at straying from the


    43. Straying of the mind is deviation from the path of virtue


    44. The Almighty wanted to draw man’s attention to that knowledge which he will get on death in order to deter him from continuing in his distraction and straying


    45. After the Almighty has revealed to us some verses indicating His magnificence and great favor at the beginning of this fortress, and having demonstrated to us that He acquainted the spirit with what causes its straying from the straight path and what leads to its good and piety, He drove to us the following verse in order to inform us of that the obtainment of good can be achieved only by cleaning the spirit and purifying it


    46. Then if one thinks of the universal signs which are before his eyes, he will believe in his Provider, and this belief will lead him to abide to God’s orders and to refrain from transgression and straying


    47. Because of what they have done with the ones whom they killed or stole their money or infringed on their honor or misled and caused their straying from the right path, their state, on that day, will cause unbearable excruciation to their heart


    48. What affirms the meaning we have mentioned is the order which God gave to His noble Prophet (cpth) when He says: “you, give no heed, ”: that is: “I bid you, My dear, to turn from him since he has been guided, and to try to save My straying obedients


    49. But regarding the tongue of the straying opposers, it speaks their state which denies that the Almighty overwhelmed them with perfect protection and wise grant


    50. The Almighty clarified their straying from the right path which arised from their unbelief





































    1. that strays landward from the night


    2. The bishop broke into the eulogy, echoing through the Tannoy, ringing round the valleys, bringing in the strays and frightening the wild


    3. If your attention strays to other thoughts, calmly notice this, and then gently move your attention back to your object of meditation


    4. He prayed it was just a couple of strays


    5. Apart from a stray dog or two, they are all strays here, I was the only one on the beach so I consider it to be my private little paradise, for now anyway


    6. A few shoes had fallen as he had walked over towards us when some chick who had been hanging with the HHB’s all night, helped pick up the strays


    7. powerful country, a calamity such as this has been allowed to happen, particularly twenty minutes after the initial attack?” To understand that, it is essential to bear in mind that, with countless number of daily domestic flights, a free and open society such as the United States cannot send chase fighters to shoot down any aircraft that strays from its normal rout


    8. registration in the national data base of strays dogs and return to their territory;


    9. USA where the people does not confront with strays


    10. The strays then have litters of their own, and the

    11. Killing strays does not stop the problem and only offers a temporary


    12. A few strays are not usually a problem, but


    13. who dislike strays and see it as the only solution for getting rid of them


    14. again - other strays move in and before long the problem is as bad or worse than before


    15. Children should understand why we have so many strays;


    16. already exist and are a haven for strays but we need more of them


    17. protection of strays to local authorities


    18. The mayor has promised future help for the castration of strays to Trakossas


    19. activists report that the strays used to be brought on a boat and thrown over board far


    20. regular intervals, strays die from poison

    21. before the many wretched, starving strays


    22. Until the nineties, the Italian government tried to solve the problem of strays by


    23. dog, could avoid hundreds of a new generation of strays


    24. up till they die, because money can be made with strays in Italy


    25. The public is not sensitized enough, to perceive the misery of strays, indifference,


    26. In other words: Italian strays could be much better off, if their fate wouldn‘t be in the


    27. Recalcitrant strays kept breaking away only to be brought back with great effort and anger


    28. Recalcitrant strays kept breaking away only to be brought back with great


    29. Beverly’s pet looked as if it belonged chasing strays to the alleyways


    30. neighbours had a whole pack of strays that weren’t technically theirs, but they’d toss food to

    31. owned, no strays) had been using our garden as a public restroom when the house had still


    32. If the group strays from the agenda, ask the group if they would


    33. heart without bringing strays home (she is after all a guest in


    34. of rabbits, three birds and a menagerie of strays and rejects


    35. And what about the animals in shelters, zoos and roadside menageries, circuses, biomedical labs, strays, birds and whatever else is out there


    36. many others are strays, and millions more are in shelters and


    37. support the culling of strays from the Yellowstone National


    38. better protections of strays and according to them do not see


    39. Others are strays


    40. outside of this mould are wild, some strays, or wolves; not

    41. He had allowed even encouraged a couple of strays to stay, which had wandered in a few months back


    42. that she fared better than most other cats, especially strays


    43. Many city cats are strays


    44. the town, partying with waifs and strays


    45. the edge of The Greenbrier, and he routinely rounded up strays and


    46. strays back to the herd


    47. long as he promised to pick up any strays that happened to wander into


    48. he was out checking for strays, and I didn’t see any point in questioning


    49. “When did those strays show up?” Stokes asked, again taking control


    50. them until he could bring them to us, since he helps us round up strays






































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    Synonyms for "stray"

    stray digress divagate wander cast drift ramble range roam roll rove swan tramp vagabond err isolated meander stroll

    "stray" definitions

    an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)


    move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment


    wander from a direct course or at random


    lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking


    not close together in time


    (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home