star-gazer

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Skinny legs he had, an’ a chest as thin as paper; but aloft he carried more sail ’n the law allows—sky-scraper, star-gazer, an’, ay! even the curse-o’-God-over-all.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman

I've been a star-gazer all my life—from my habit of being58 "out late," I guess; and the things have always seemed to me alive.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

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

From Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

I am wilful, violent, capricious, weak, Wound in a web of my own spinning-wheel, A star-gazer, a riband in the wind...

From Complete Short Works of George Meredith by Meredith, George

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