stander-by

Example Sentences

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His pocket is seldom without a Greek testament or Hebrew Bible, which he opens only in the church, and that when some stander-by looks over.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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)

Too long I bore this weighty pack,   As Hercules the sky; Now take him you, Dan Atlas, back,   Let me be stander-by.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

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