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stander-by

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The probe of criticism must be entrusted to an impartial stander-by, of fine talents and unshaken probity.

I whips me, in haste, the halter over the neck of an honest stander-by:—and I jerks me him up to the top of a twenty foot gibbet.

A philosopher being blamed by a stander-by, for defending an argument weakly against the Emperor Adrian, replied, What!

Farther, Horace is not merely the stander-by contemplating the game in which objective mankind is engaged.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stander-by, such as: bystander, fan, moviegoer, observer, onlooker, and sports fan.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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