stander-by

Example Sentences

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"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

I saw in every stander-by Pale death; life only in thine eye.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles

In my conscience, I think the common observation just: a stander-by sees more of the game, than he that plays.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

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.

Sin seldom or never terminates in one person; but the pernicious example of one, doth animate and embolden another; or thus, the beholding of evil in another, doth often allure a stander-by.

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