Therefore it helped the Elizabethan
onlooker to understand the play when he saw a king, a courtier, or a butcher come on to the stage dressed as he knew a king, a courtier, or a butcher dressed.
So long as this is general, it is not always noticeable, for the uninspired
onlooker is without the necessary means of comparison.
Thus, for example, the individual who defiled a drinking-place would be attacked by every
onlooker, while one who deliberately gave a false alarm was the recipient of much rough usage at our hands.
I have seen him a score of times, at table, insulting this hunter or that, with cool and level eyes and, withal, a certain air of interest, pondering their actions or replies or petty rages with a curiosity almost laughable to me who stood
onlooker and who understood.
"Extra-terrestrial" had no meaning for most of the
onlookers.
"I know," I continued, pressing her hand, "that I may seem young enough to talk like this, but some of us get through life quicker than others, and when we say, `It is done,' it is no use for
onlookers to say, `Why, it is just beginning!' Believe me, Nicolete, I am not fit husband for you."
Stop!" Anne called wildly after him, not caring in the least for the other dumbfounded
onlookers. "Mr.
If his sisters or their friends happened to be among the
onlookers on `popular nights,' Sylvester stood back in the shadow under the cottonwood trees, smoking and watching Lena with a harassed expression.
He made a lurch for the cab, overturning three or four
onlookers and himself-- no!
The losing team, accompanied by its host of volunteers, was dragged in a rush over the ground and disappeared under the avalanche of battling forms of the
onlookers.
And then, when the storm of twigs, leaves and dirt, caused by the leaping, threshing thing ceased for a moment, the
onlookers saw something that filled them with terror.
Several had tried their skill with Eric, but he had soon sent them spinning in no gentle manner, amid the jeers and laughter of the
onlookers.
onlooker - someone who looks on