stander-by
Example Sentences
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After all the maxims and systems of trade and commerce, a stander-by would think the affairs of the world were most ridiculously contrived.
From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken!
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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 William Ernst Browning
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 William Ernst Browning
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 Tyrone Power
