stander-by

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The probe of criticism must be entrusted to an impartial stander-by, of fine talents and unshaken probity.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

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

Whereupon a stander-by asks Duncan if he would wrestle with him.

From History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Mackenzie, Alexander

His pocket is seldom without a Greek testament or Hebrew bible, which he opens only in the church, and that when some stander-by looks over.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

None but a perfectly cool stander-by, and one previously acquainted with Mrs. Falconer's character, could have seen all that Alfred saw.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria