As we entered the funeral home the following evening, I felt alien and uncomfortable in that strange setting.

But right now, like the whole world outside, it felt alien and menacing.

Here, for the first time, he felt alien and alone.

That common gesture felt suddenly alien, as it had when she'd first left home to enter the Navy.

It was all familiar to her, but it felt quite alien, too.

This was a hard land, so different from America that it made him feel truly alien, cold, and detached.

But it felt very alien at the track with no bookies.

He was confused by the sensation, it felt alien and out of place.

'He's not so bad,' said Camille, feeling suddenly alien and rather lost in these surroundings.

Suddenly she didn't feel so alien and alone any more.

This whole approach is the opposite of the Zionist idea, to free the Jews from the ghetto by establishing a land of their own, where they could be themselves without feeling alien.

For the first time, the future feels alien.

It was the shocking intrusive voice in his ear that felt alien: "Six hours remaining air supply at moderate activity level.

Brought up in a Norfolk rectory, he had never felt alien under starless skies, but he had seldom known blackness like this.

Suddenly the small study felt unbearable alien and op- pressive.

It made him feel almost, well, alien.

But so is that part of me that feels alien in this country, lonely behind my wall of defences, inarticulate in my deepest pain.

Even my computer, companion and co-worker, feels alien: illness has kept me from it for a long time, and it seems like a recalcitrant stranger.

A way not to feel so alone and alien, as if she were a child playing a spy game in the house of her parents' friends.

They made him feel welcome and, at the same time, alien.