looker-on

Were it my nature to be other than a looker-on in life, I would attempt your rescue.

The worst thing was that the farce of it all could only be detected by the looker-on.

I forgot, Roland, that I was the looker-on, and not the player of the game.

One for the looker-on in the struggle who has no eyes for what lies still in shadow.

That was his gentle way of intimating that Claude was not invited to be a looker-on.

I have never had an assistant or a looker-on to whom this was not perfectly apparent.

He would have seen, as only a looker-on could see, what was happening to them.

The whole thing was momentary, and the looker-on could not feel sure.

I am too dispassionate a looker-on to be fit for a partisan: would I were not!

My friend was a looker-on from the Southern side during the whole battle.