stander-by

Example Sentences

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Say an estate should fall to you, you’d take it As it concerned more a stander by Than you. 

From The Hunchback by Morley, Henry

And Stella will be sung, while I Can only be a stander by.

From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Swift, Jonathan

Which was undoubtedly the fact, as any stander by might have seen with half an eye.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan

Because she bore the iron name Of him who doomed his king to die, I deemed her one of stately frame And looks to awe her stander by.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

God would also that every stander by That in the grass doth see the adder lie, Should cry as he did, death is in the pot, That many by its poison perish not.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John