star-gazer

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The other, the short, robust man, with fair complexion, sandy hair, bright blue eye and vivacious expression, is Le Verrier, the most tireless star-gazer science has produced since Galileo.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

So he hastens to add that, of course, "the true pilot" will be called "a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing."

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Dissatisfied with the crude instruments of his time, he made his own telescopes; for it was his ambition to be not a mere star-gazer, but an earnest student of the heavens.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin