stander-by

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A stander-by took me to task In some such words, I think, as these: "Aren't you ashamed, be who you may, To mourn the burial of this plague?"

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)

"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."

From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane

A stander-by may see more of the game than one that plays.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel

Captain B——n asked a stander-by what volunteer corps was parading to-day: "Why, I don't rightly know; but I guess it may be the Taunton Juvenile Democratic Lancers."

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone

The Duke has been a stander-by and has had leisure to repent the error which turned him out before, viz. of declaring that he would have no reform.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Hare, Augustus J. C.