Alien , a. & n. ( page 29 ).
Questions.
1. How does alien differ from foreign? 2. Is a foreigner by birth necessarily an alien? 3. Are the people of one country while residing in their own land foreigners or aliens to the people of other lands? 4. How can one residing in a foreign country cease to be an alien in that country? 5. How do foreign and alien differ in their figurative use?
Examples.
By —— hands thy dying eyes were closed
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By —— hands thy humble grave adorned
By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.
What is religion? Not a —— inhabitant, nor something —— to our nature, which comes and takes up its abode in the soul.
—— from the commonwealth of Israel and —— from the covenants of promise.