star-gazer
Example Sentences
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I am wilful, violent, capricious, weak, Wound in a web of my own spinning-wheel, A star-gazer, a riband in the wind...
From Complete Short Works of George Meredith by Meredith, George
What matter what happens to the useless old star-gazer?
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Kingsley, Charles
For, after all, Is the star any the less starry to the rapt star-gazer when he finds it to be a tremulous planet?
From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)
My practical new daughter growing a star-gazer, like the foolish old man?
From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Raymond, Evelyn
A triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moonsail, and if set above that, a star-gazer, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
