stander-by
Example Sentences
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In my conscience, I think the common observation just: a stander-by sees more of the game, than he that plays.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
None but a perfectly cool stander-by, and one previously acquainted with Mrs. Falconer's character, could have seen all that Alfred saw.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Maria Edgeworth
I saw in every stander-by Pale death; life only in thine eye.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
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 Anthony Trollope
The Duke has been a stander-by and has had leisure to repent the error which turned him out before, viz. of declaring that he would have no reform.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
