stander-by
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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
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
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
