stander-by

Example Sentences

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It was as though a stander-by had overheard tidings given by a king to his servant, and had presumed to hear them himself, as it were Achimaas the son of Sadoc.

From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Benson, Robert Hugh

"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."

From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

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)

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 Hare, Augustus J. C.