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An onlooker might have said that her eyes searched the heights for tidings they alone could give her.
The majority of onlookers at a big show have only the haziest notion of what good boxing is.
And suddenly the dance ended and the children, formed into line, were saluting the royal onlookers.
What did it matter to them that the curious gaze of scores of onlookers was centered upon them?
In our own attitude, not yet abandoned, of impartial onlookers, what are we to say of this quarrel?
The onlookers, who had kept their distance up to now, drew closer in, holding their breath.
Onlookers are apt to be more bitterly partisan than those who have taken actual part in the conflict.
A very small affair, but quite exciting for the onlookers, when there is nothing more important doing.
Her attraction was immense even to these men, who were only onlookers of the Leaping Horse riot.
The ground descended below the four onlookers so abruptly as to cut them off from the plain.
The street was in confusion with the gathering of floats and men and curious crowds of onlookers.
The group of onlookers laughed outright at this, notwithstanding their astonishment, and called to Charlie to look.
Dozens of little boats, filled with onlookers, started from the shore in the direction of our ship.
There are cases in which tarring and feathering would soothe the moral sense of the right-minded onlooker.
In those days Ernie grew on her as a mountain looming out of the dawn-mist grows on the onlooker.
If you whip a boy in prison he will suffer martyrdom if he can but have one admiring onlooker.
The thoughts of each character must be concentrated on the part undertaken, and the onlookers absolutely forgotten.
When the prayer ended, trumpets sounded, and the fleet sailed away amid the cheers of the onlookers.
On the far side of the circle a sudden commotion broke up the tense expectancy of the onlookers.
Whatever was happening there was no joke to her, however funny it might be to the other onlookers.
There had been such evident reserve as to convince onlookers of some suppressed evidence through understood, concerted restraints.
From behind the mist came the news of life and death, revealing things which no onlooker could see.
Yet there are many onlookers who, by a ventriloquist, can be made to believe that the picture speaks.
He was not often self-conscious, but when he had anything difficult to do he did not like onlookers.
Joked the aviator while the airplane was wheeled out, and the usual crowd of onlookers began to gather.
Hence, it is of the first importance to prevent sympathetic onlookers from crowding round him in a ring.
Courts and capitals knew him, and his opportunities were such as gave him all ease as an onlooker.
As he spoke a sound, half of relief and half of content came from the throats of the onlookers.
Old Billy Smith and the half-dozen onlookers who had no responsibility in the affair grinned and waited.
Again astonishment was the part of most of the onlookers, but their father and chief was present.
His face looked dreamy as ever, nor could an onlooker have guessed that he was eyeing the other narrowly.
It was with the greatest difficulty the Admiral restrained a great burst of laughter from the onlookers.
Already the street before the hotel was crowded with onlookers who had gathered to receive the coach.
As the group approached the altar the chanting suddenly stopped and the onlookers rose to their feet.
He belonged to the people who make the play, and most of us are only onlookers at the best.
With that curious, onlooker's smile of his and with a nod of farewell, he plunged down the steep.
A murmur of surprise that had in it a note of uneasiness began to run through the ring of onlookers.
Yet, to the amazement of most of the onlookers, Dick also was doing some very speedy swimming now.
Every onlooker watched Dick and Greg closely, anxious to make sure that neither young man was going stale.
Between himself and her the doctor found this constant onlooker, watching him with large, clear eyes.
The throng of onlookers and buyers had dispersed; only the auctioneer's assistants remained at work in the hall.
Ralph organized the excited onlookers to some system in removing what could be saved from the burning house.
The miserable thing is to be inactive onlookers, not to be able to lift a hand to help ourselves forward.
He, Martin, was merely a spectator, interested in the event, it is true, but still only an onlooker.
And rejoice with me for at this game I am not a mere onlooker, having once burnt over twenty-eight acres.
The intensity of this drama, however, being interior, caused little outward disturbance that casual onlookers need have noticed.
Back at the fire the helpers were increased by the arrival of the onlookers at the baseball game.
To the onlookers it seemed as if he was passing into a condition of coma, but it was not so.
By nightfall the place was the scene of great activity, and to an onlooker produced a singular effect.
She moved with great speed, but to the onlookers it seemed as if she crept through the water.
The crowd of curious onlookers hastily stood aside to make room for the couple upon whom all eyes were fixed.
Synge made the national susceptibility smart; and yet his satire, to the mere onlooker, would seem sympathetic enough.
Some of these rivalries have afforded tremendous entertainment for onlookers who appreciated the moves in the feminine game.
He would make a splendid onlooker, and she would select all the pleasant things for him to see.
It seemed to be a free fight, but what they were all fighting about was not clear to an onlooker.
Ned now found time to recognize in the throng of helpers and onlookers people from far and near.
Most of the onlookers, like Kendall, had been waiting for this contest and now gathered around the tee.
The little group of forlorn prisoners soon dispersed, leaving one apparently half-interested onlooker peering idly into the car.
Her insistence on the fundamental importance of material progress drove him early to the post of disinterested onlooker.
White as death itself she was, and staring straight before her, seeing nothing of the throng of onlookers.
Echoed the only onlooker, who had never forgotten that he had once been refused credit by this house.
While he worked away, evidently filling his pockets, the interest of the onlookers became more and more intense.
The onlooker saw the applicant dive a hand into his hip pocket and draw out a roll of money.
Tears rose to the eyes of many onlookers as Frida threw herself, sobbing, on the grave of her father.
The concealed onlookers saw the little group stand talking a moment, and then turn into the hotel.
He would have made the two lovers present themselves to the onlooker in their right proportions to the scenery.
Sometimes appearing in the wings, more often in the critic's seat, he was an onlooker rather than a participant.
Unmindful of the presence of the careless, indifferent onlookers, Esther clasps her cold hands together and groans.
There are some women who are not completely graceful, and yet give the onlooker a great sense of satisfaction.
If the onlookers begin to look at the hand and wand too much the display must cease at once.
Cried the onlookers, who perceived from the exact directions that there was no joking in the matter.
The onlookers noticed that with him, as with others, there was evidently a little bargaining being done.
The first five hundred marched through the crowds on the street without any demonstration from the onlookers.
What she saw was the tall young man of the tragic face, mocking her before delighted onlookers.
The tide of battle swept out from among the trees and upon the driveway just beneath the onlookers.
His personality commanded attention, but there were some among the onlookers who found it more striking than attractive.
To the surprise of the onlookers her regular foreman took his station with the rest of the crew.
As an onlooker, of course you see me more clearly than I see myself, and your judgment of me is probably right.
The onlookers approved highly of this prophecy which was of a state of affairs which they all wanted.
At that moment, nothing would have persuaded the onlooker that the hastening figure was not hastening towards misfortune.
The rest, chiefly onlookers, refrained from too close acquaintance with the very apparent cause of all the trouble.
Jack squared his shoulders, and put himself into a position of defense, while the onlookers cheered him loudly.
To her, the onlookers, more numerous as they neared the business part of town, were the background of a picture.
As I faced the crowd of onlookers I noticed that two men suddenly and quietly left the room.
He becomes all the time less and less of a participant in the story, more and more of an onlooker.
I could not disguise the fact, however, that any onlooker would have pronounced me to be playing an inferior part.
The Police Inspector stepped off the store veranda, where he had been standing, a majestic and interested onlooker.
To the onlookers it was but a trial of strength and cunning; to Joel it had a deep human meaning.
As the last few laps were negotiated at a frightful speed the knots of onlookers became more and more enthusiastic.
The onlookers watched closely as the chair was raised off the deck and suspended over to the shore.
The third table had been taken now, and the room was gradually filling with a crowd of onlookers.
It became a battle of giants, almost too thrilling to those onlookers who favored one team more than the other.
To say that this tragedy in less than five seconds produced dismay among the onlookers would be incorrect.
The tall figure came on until it was almost opposite the bushes where the three hidden onlookers were concealed.
Only if the fire curtain sticks, the play is robbed of much of its natural charm to the onlooker.
At that moment the onlooker was about to rush forward, for what purpose he had but the vaguest idea.
We onlookers held our breath, for in an instant was such a scene as we can never hope to see again.
I am merely an onlooker here, and I must say that, for once, I thoroughly enjoy the spectator's role.
Of itself, or because of the presentation given it by the dramatist, it must rouse in the onlooker an emotional response.
It is a strange sound, which, to the listeners, the onlookers, seems to say "hush" to the whole world.