stander-by

Example Sentences

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He was sensible of his error when too late, and oft reproaches Atticus that, being a stander-by, and less heated with the game than himself, he would suffer him to make such blunders.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

Too long I bore this weighty pack,   As Hercules the sky; Now take him you, Dan Atlas, back,   Let me be stander-by.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

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)

He committed the care of these forces to Hortensius, and himself spent the day in public as a stander-by and spectator of the gladiators, who exercised before him.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

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