star-gazer

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My practical new daughter growing a star-gazer, like the foolish old man?

From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Raymond, Evelyn

A triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moonsail, and if set above that, a star-gazer, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

For, after all, Is the star any the less starry to the rapt star-gazer when he finds it to be a tremulous planet?

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)

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

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