star-gazer
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Constance had said that day to Miranda--for this star-gazer to overhear--that she did not believe Kincaid loved Flora, and the hearer had longed to ask her why, but knew she could not tell.
From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo
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
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)
Thus the learned star-gazer can reach his telescope under cover in wintry weather.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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
