stander-by

Example Sentences

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Captain B——n asked a stander-by what volunteer corps was parading to-day: "Why, I don't rightly know; but I guess it may be the Taunton Juvenile Democratic Lancers."

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone

He committed the care of these forces to Hortensius, and himself spent the day in public as a stander-by and spectator of the gladiators, who exercised before him.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

He plays no part himself now, but is an onlooker, a stander-by, chronicling, as from a cloistered aloofness, yet with kindly wisdom always, the little things that matter in the lives of those around him.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut

Whereupon a stander-by asks Duncan if he would wrestle with him.

From History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Mackenzie, Alexander

A stander-by may see more of the game than one that plays.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel