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Already all of us, combatants and onlookers alike, have seen so many horrors that one more produces no shock in our minds.
A caustic onlooker observed that it was the smallest ditch in which two great political armies ever engaged in civil war.
I sometimes wonder if they would continue their hopeless charade if they knew how comical they appeared to an impartial onlooker.
The festive crowd of onlookers had left the circus, chattering gaily and animatedly, and hurried homeward to merry suppers.
Her eyes were downcast, the brows above them slightly drawn, conveying somehow an impression of mute endurance to the observant onlooker.
Then the agitators, their small following, and the onlookers, sure now of having a spectacle, began gathering in considerable numbers.
His impassive face hardened, and the onlooker saw before him the man who had ruthlessly crushed opposition, regardless of consequences.
Calling to his aid two officers who had been but casual onlookers they began volleying charges at me with machine-gun rapidity.
Every Jack sees in his own particular Jill charms and perfections to the enchantment of which we stolid onlookers are stone-cold.
The whole occurrence must be so contrived as to wear the appearance of a pure accident to the onlookers, should there be any.
The roar gradually subsided, and the miners wandered back to their own operations again, followed by scattered groups of curious onlookers.
Difficult as this stupendous task appeared to the onlookers, it was achieved by these heroic mountaineers, though not without great loss.
The Physician patted the shoulder of the sufferer, as expressions of relief could be heard from the onlookers on all sides.
To play upon a wood fire with a bellows gives one the same satisfaction, and is just as pleasantly annoying to the onlookers.
Beneath the shaggy brows, within deep sockets, were eyes, large, dark, fiery, that held the onlooker captive against his will.
Little, frail, lame, seventy years old, her gallantry elicited from the two lines of onlookers applause, cheers, calls of encouragement.
At one time it was discovered that Craig, reinforced by enthusiastic onlookers from the sidelines, had seventeen men in his team.
A marvelously lifelike head of the Man of Sorrows, bending forward and gazing upon the onlooker with eyes of infinite tenderness and appealing.
Without the slightest warning the onlooker is startled by a shrill whistle, the mad ringing of bells, and cries of "Fire."
Then he forced him up to the towel, rubbed his face vigorously, and finally spun him around toward the astonished onlookers.
A marvelously lifelike head of the Man of Sorrows, bending forward and gazing upon the onlooker with eyes of infinite tenderness and appealing.
Bygones are bygones, and no one can actually realize what takes place between two human beings, even when they have been onlookers.
It is a pity the workers are so frequently inarticulate, thus leaving their joys and sorrows to be imperfectly sensed by onlookers.
Even the man who signed himself "The Amused Onlooker" in the Evening Standard, wrote a psychological sketch of this East Side firebrand.
For this reason many onlookers are impelled to keep time with the rhythmic dance by clicking the tongue or clapping the hands.
Locked together, they rolled and twirled round the yard under the moon, scattering the delighted onlookers like a wild cow.
As though animated by a common impulse, the onlookers drew back to a respectful distance; nor were they again indiscreet enough to interrupt.
He knew that the millionaire's words were the preliminary to a skirmish in which he had no part beyond that of an onlooker.
Tugging and shouting at him made him worse; he began to plunge, scattering the onlookers and the porters smiting his flanks.
A strange and incongruous sight it was in the brilliant sunshine, and the neighboring windows and balconies were packed with onlookers.
To lie in convulsions on the beach, the servants standing round holding up umbrellas to protect her from the gaze of inquisitive onlookers.
Being escorted through the press of onlookers by an officer, the reputable old gentleman stood squarely in front of the magistrate.
How little the onlookers imagine that after the act the human rooster frequently drops in a state of collapse and exhaustion!
Whenever the hand of one of the onlookers approaches the duck it dives out of sight, reappearing as soon as the hand recedes.
Consciously or unconsciously, every onlooker felt that sometime, some bout would end in the wounding, disabling or death of one of the two.
At the opposite bank he was met by officers and a crowd of curious onlookers, who plied the Colonel with irrelevant questions.
This seemed to have a good effect, and once again the onlookers were startled to see how steadily and fast the boat was travelling.
We gather from the expression, "without the slightest hitch," that not one of the onlookers made any effort to save the lady.
She recovered a little of her old energy to watch the crowd of onlookers, hoping against hope to find rescuers amongst them.
Suddenly both man and boat reappeared farther down the stream, and the hundreds of onlookers gave vent to their feelings in cheers.
That is to say, her blue eyes pierced him through, accused him, reproved him, every time they were lifted toward the onlookers.
"He's done for," tremulously whispered Henri, wondering why the soldier onlookers did not interfere, and eager to make a saving move himself.
The little pebble, or pea, which the shifted shells concealed by turns to allure the bets of onlookers, rolled to the ground.
Suddenly a chorused groan arose from the white onlookers, while a shriek of exultation came from those Indians who saw the incident.
Now, if they would consent to act as bait to induce the inquisitive onlookers to play, he'd give them a share of the profits.
Suddenly an explosion of uncertain origin shook the air, and the onlookers retreated in terror, as if the ground were yawning beneath them.
The game was being watched by about a score of onlookers, and it was easy to stand among them and elude special observation.
The gala-day opened with a tournament at which Adolph of Cleves again sported as Knight of the Swan to the applause of the onlookers.
Below him half a dozen small boys with bundles of programs came skirmishing up the hill through the sparse groups of onlookers.
Hastily presented to a few people, Banneker drifted to one side and, seating himself on a wire chair, contentedly assumed the role of onlooker.
There was in their glance a keenness, a curiosity, almost amounting to awe, which would at once have arrested the attention of an onlooker.
The miners had watched Steering perform one of those supernatural feats of strength and endurance that an onlooker can never explain afterward.
Its only occupants were a few scattered onlookers shivering in the cold, and the officials and employees whose duties required their presence.
The terrified onlookers threw themselves flat upon the ground, but even the earth rocked, and huge trees of the forest were uprooted.
He started back for the castle, but the big doorway was filled with onlookers, one of whom stepped forward, aiming a crossbow.
They exhibited that Southern vivacity which is a trifle tiresome to the onlooker, and they all listened to themselves while they spoke.
A motley crowd swarms their streets, presenting to the eye of an onlooker the picturesque spectacle that the contrast of costumes always produces.
From the standpoint of an onlooker, he has met an obstacle which must be overcome before his behavior can be unified into a successful ongoing.
As there was no wind, the object fell in a straight line, the parachute opened and began to float slowly above the onlookers.
After a wrench or two, which convinced the onlookers that the door had been long in disuse, it swung inward with a groan.
He had been bred and nourished to play the part, not of a gladiator in the arena but of a peaceful onlooker at the struggle.
Singly and in groups of two and three the boys, players and onlookers alike, began to appear around the corner of the stand.
Any onlooker uneducated in the mysteries of art would have imagined the use of a magnifying glass a more desirable method to study the effect.
His attempts at self-preservation are not more than half understood, and, if successful, are remembered with a dash of bitterness by the onlookers.
The first three archers again struck true, amid the loud applause of the onlookers; for they were general favorites and expected to win.
Conscious of the attention that was shown her, without turning her head she looked askance at the onlookers and rather enjoyed it.
With an oath the farmer reached for his rifle, but Allan wrenched it from his hands before any onlookers noted the action.
As he drew near the crowd, he could hear the comments of various detached onlookers, who were telling the news to the new arrivals.
At last, in disgust and anger, the woman jumped out without giving her husband any warning: the result to onlookers was ludicrous!
This marriage was anything but satisfactory, as any onlooker would have foretold in regard to a union between two such unusual and pronounced characters.
It is one of mutual recrimination between father and son, each blaming the other for the cowardice which the onlooker can perceive in both.
He was also a fine horseman; on one occasion he mounted an unmanageable horse, to the astonishment of all onlookers, and was able to control it.
To onlookers this legion, composed at first of but one thousand men, seemed a wild, unruly set; but this was not the case.
Slowly he backed, backed from the apparition; and the onlookers noted the pallid cheeks and blazing eyes, and they wondered helplessly.
Here the onlookers can see the preparation, since the ready signal has aroused visible muscular response in the shape of a crouching position.
Dancing leads them to the wine, and the wine leads them to the dance; and the reiterated transition becomes disagreeable to the onlookers.
The incident was equally startling in its dramatic suddenness to all the astonished onlookers, and it made a considerable impression upon the natives.
Scarborough shook hands with her, bowed to the little boy with a formality and constraint that might have seemed ludicrous to an onlooker.
He was not long in regretting his precautions, for he soon perceived that his costume evoked from onlookers merry comments and derisive glances.
The odor and dust that rose from the seemingly endless stream of animals finally became rather unpleasant in the nostrils of the onlookers.
From an idle onlooker's point of view it seemed an excellent domestic implement in good health; but the beautiful cook averred it would produce no heat.
Presently, at a distance, the three onlookers beheld the four men and the litter moving stealthily along, but not toward the Casino.
On seeing Paul she sprung into his arms without care for the onlookers, or for her countrymen who had come by the same train.
To me, a plain onlooker, it was, of course, obvious that there must be some strong, secret bond between the hunchback and the millionaire.
It takes a charge in force over the top or something equally vivid and spectacular to whet up the jaded mentality of the onlooker.
A cowboy had detached himself from the group of curious onlookers and had confronted the council with two big guns held low.
As the agitated hotel keeper reached over and picked up a newspaper from the ink-smeared desk the curious onlookers crowded forward, Amos among them.
The visitor remarked in Arabic as she returned the baby to his nurse; at which there was an outburst of applause from the onlookers.
One old Whig named Smith, while being conducted to his destination, appealed to an onlooker, a Tory of his acquaintance, to intercede for him.
Then followed the cracking of whips, the furious pounding of heavy hoofs, the commands of the contestants, and the yells of the onlookers.
Then he turned again and came down at a hand gallop, and reaped his reward in the startled cries and anxious eyes of the onlookers.
Cautiously balancing himself, and seizing a paddle that happened to have been fastened in it, he paddled himself ashore amid the cheers of the onlookers.
The sufferings of the inhabitants during the invasion had made them bitter, and from the crowd of onlookers there was a scornful outcry.
He was still leaning forward to ease his panting horse, whose dilated nostrils and flattened ears told the onlookers of its desperate journey.
He was muttering excuses of himself to himself, and knew that they were valid, but that an onlooker would have had no clue to them.
The calamities which befell us were foreseen by many onlookers, and were even foretold by our friends, but we could accept no advice, no warning.
As the writer is not expected to exercise his invention, the onlooker estimates the conduct of the fable as a spectacle, not as a revelation.
Their extravagant, comical gestures, rapidly changing attitudes, and exuberant cries, all seem laughable to the onlooker, but evidently give pleasure to the birds.
James stands off, a disinterested onlooker, and exhibits his characters critically, accurately, minutely, as they take their parts in the procession or game.
It is a stream which carries with it things new and old, and serves to stir the mind of the onlooker with unwonted thoughts.