star-gazer

Example Sentences

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The others pressed close around, listening to the measured voice of the physician and the quick, pertinent questions of the star-gazer.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

The big telescope amazed him, and so did the patient star-gazer, who often sat out-of-doors in the most intense cold for five or six hours at a time.

From The Great German Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

Then there arose a quarrel between them; and the star-gazer said, 'If I had not found the princess out, all your skill would have been of no use; therefore she ought to be mine.'

From Grimm's Fairy Tales by Grimm, Wilhelm

Jason appointed Tiphys to be helmsman, because he was a star-gazer, and knew the points of the compass.

From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Within the hour Lynn Gordon rode back down the hill, and passed the window very slowly, watching the curtain as a star-gazer awaits the passing of a cloud.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston