stander-by

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The world, a willing stander-by, Inclines to aid a specious lie: Alas! they would not do you wrong; But all appearances are strong.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst

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

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

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.

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