Hence she had developed the talent of the looker-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
And that is the meaning of Spectator -- the looker-on. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
A looker-on calls him inconstant, uncertain, capricious. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
"I was the looker-on, sir," said Gould, stepping forward. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
How far a simple looker-on could supply them if so minded!. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
So, after supper, they sat down to play, and I was a looker-on. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
"Were any looker-on to overhear what you say, he'd jeer at you!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
"I see you would enjoy life merely as a looker-on," said Arnold. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
The lighting fitting must be such that the looker-on is not dazzled. From Wordnik.com. [9. Commercial Lighting Fittings] Reference
A looker-on is sending 2 men with rifles to pursue Daly and kill him. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Days at City Hall] Reference
"In short," he says, "I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
By rotation, the eye of the looker-on is caught by day and in the dark as well. From Wordnik.com. [9. Commercial Lighting Fittings] Reference
"Of course not -- if you persist in keeping to the role of looker-on," she retorted. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
They, of course, did not know me, and I could, unsuspected, be a looker-on in Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Columbia; but I, on duty that day as one of the 'reserve guard,' was merely a looker-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
On the contrary, to an unprejudiced looker-on it was quite the reverse of being inactive. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Snatches of their conversation only reassure the looker-on of the absurdity of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
This reconciles the prudential looker-on to the occasional and partial appearance of neglect. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
Now that she had proved to be a mere looker-on she began to take thought about the lamb's future. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
Hearts must be all alike to her at such a distance, but the faces to the looker-on were so different. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
But the looker-on may sit too long and hold forth too curiously and domineeringly for his own health. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
It is not fun poked by a mere looker-on, it is the fun felt in the war by one who has been through it. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments From France] Reference
He, however, was only a looker-on — could be no more than a looker-on for the existing short session. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Redux] Reference
The happiness it brings cannot go very high, yet so far as a looker-on may judge it feels like happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Why, how silly of him to be crouching there, a mere looker-on, when he ought to be having a hand in the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
They are entertaining and instructive to the looker-on, and a healthy, though fatiguing, amusement for the dancers. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
The master of the house was too stout for dancing, of too restless and irritable a temperament for the role of looker-on. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
In short, I have acted in all parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper. From Wordnik.com. [Looking back to 1711] Reference
Most recently, Phoenix jumped off a stage during a performance to go after a looker-on who had been heckling him in Miami. From Wordnik.com. [Joaquin Phoenix is my hero] Reference
He bore himself with an air of distinction, and the looker-on saw the gloved hand caress a big moustache of sweeping silver. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
While Ch'un Ling traces, in a absent frame of mind, the outlines of the character Ch'iang, a looker-on appears on the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He is no longer content with being a passive observer, a quiet looker-on, while his character and interests are under discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Now I was a mere looker-on; seldom an unmoved, and sometimes an angry spectator, but still a spectator only, of the pursuits of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of the Canongate] Reference
When the grave was marked, the one wielding the spade looked up at the silent looker-on, who bowed his head, as if to say, "It is right.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Do you know why those unco spectacles were sometimes almost sweet to me, though I was more often a looker-on than a sharer in their horror?. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I am as lazy as a dog, and the role of looker-on would just suit me. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
He, at least, as a philosophic looker-on at life, will spit upon such philistine opinions. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
In a degree he was a curious looker-on; and in a still larger way he was a sympathetic, but not convinced, friend and well-wisher. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
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