stander-by

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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

He was sensible of his error when too late, and oft reproaches Atticus that, being a stander-by, and less heated with the game than himself, he would suffer him to make such blunders.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

A stander-by took me to task In some such words, I think, as these: "Aren't you ashamed, be who you may, To mourn the burial of this plague?"

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)

I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken!

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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

From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant