Use spectator in a sentence
Sentences ending with spectator
- And next they went into the great square room that had been Lionel Carvel's, and there, too, was the roomy bed on which the old gentleman had lain with the gout, while Richard read to him from the Spectator. [9]
- The notice from the People's Journal also duly reached me, and this morning I received the Spectator. [14]
- We fell upon the enemy even as they were emerging from their stronghold, the schoolhouse, and smote them hip and thigh, with the sheriff of Anne Arundel County a laughing spectator. [9]
- Though his hand should not be in the thing, he could still be the cynical and approving spectator. [11]
- She was a pretty creature, and she and her willow bough made a very pretty picture, and one which could not offend the modesty of the most fastidious spectator. [5]
- Note made--in Italy, people who quarrel cheat the spectator. [5]
- His clean-cut features, his furrowed cheeks, his scanty and whitened hair, his well-shaped but not extraordinary head, all familiarized by innumerable portraits and emphasized in hundreds of caricatures, revealed him at once to every spectator. [6]
- I fear that he is too much given to lonely study, to self-companionship, to all sorts of questionings, to looking at life as at a solemn show where he is only a spectator. [6]
More example sentences with the word spectator in them
- At times he would fain have me read to him as he lay in his great four-post bed with the flowered counterpane, from the Spectator, stopping me now and anon at some awakened memory of his youth. [9]
- King watched this with the double interest of spectator and player. [4]
- Most future notices will in all likelihood have a reflection of the Spectator in them. [14]
- Its latest news was the Spectator and the Tatler. [4]
- Art thou a warrior sated with spoil, master of the sports, spectator of the fight, Prince, or Pistol? [11]
- Both now spoke to the spectator from these features. [10]
- In five minutes there was not a spectator within half a mile of my place; but all the high houses about that distance away were full, windows, roof, and all. [5]
- Some slouched in their chairs, others stood and talked in groups, gesticulating with cigars and pipes; yet a keen spectator, after watching them awhile through the smoke, might have been able to pick out striking personalities among them. [9]
- Merely to see the world from some remote sphere, like the distant spectator of a play which passes in dumb show, would not suffice. [4]
- The critique in the Spectator gives that view of the book which will naturally be taken by a certain class of minds; I shall expect it to be followed by other notices of a similar nature. [14]
- The Athenaeum and the Spectator gave short notices, containing qualified admissions of the power of the author. [14]
- They stand before the spectator as if borrowed from Nature, for their creators have filled them with their own healthy vigour. [10]
- He was at the philanthropic centre of a good many movements which he watched others carrying out, as a calm and kindly spectator, without losing his common sense for a moment. [6]
- He seemed but the impassive spectator, though his silence and the look in his eyes were ominous. [11]
- It might be the crisis of two lives, but to the spectator nothing more was seen than the everyday meeting of friends and acquaintances. [4]
- Mr. Ruskin is the bull that stands upon the track and threatens with annihilation the on-coming locomotive; and I think that any spectator who sees his menacing attitude and hears his roaring cannot but have fears for the locomotive. [4]
- Joan was as sweetly self-possessed and tranquil before this grim tribunal, with its robed celebrities, its solemn state and imposing ceremonials, as if she were but a spectator and not herself on trial. [5]
- Its conic shape--thickly-wooded surface girding its sides, and its apex like that of a cone, cause the spectator to wonder at nature's workings. [5]
- The love of such a man--a daily spectator of her manner of life for years--is a great testimony to her character as a woman. [14]
- The hens performed still more difficult feats, for they drew from a wooden box for each spectator a leaf of a tree, on which certain characters were visible. [10]
- Her hand was steady; the happy smile on her lips, and the eager expression of her eyes, might have led a spectator to believe that she was thirsty and had mixed herself a refreshing draught. [10]
- Before a quiet spectator, in the pure, truthful light of Apollo, the foe of all deception, what would this Arachne probably become? [10]
- But the ordinary spectator needed a guide to recognize this. [10]
- To the careless spectator it seemed a charitable siding with the suffering; a proof that the old man's heart was not so cold as his hands. [11]
- But the ordinary spectator could not have noticed any difference in the general look of things. [11]
- The bailiff often sat by the door, an interested spectator, and the macaroni lodgers condescended to come downstairs and listen. [9]
- The judge was quivering with excitement now, but he, too, was only a spectator of the drama. [9]
- I picture to myself Columbus, the future discoverer of a world, taking his modest stand in a remote corner, the humble and neglected spectator of the pageant. [4]
- Victoria turned to Mr. Rangely, who had been a deeply interested spectator to this scene. [9]
- It is a marvel to the spectator, that men should manipulate the river so. [11]
- One seems in less personal peril on the Canadian side, and has more the feeling of a spectator and less that of a participant in the wild uproar. [4]
- No space was left unoccupied where there was room for a spectator to stand or sit. [5]
- And yet it is not spectator nor spectacle that concerns either you or me. [6]
- There the spectator is in the midst of the war of nature. [4]
- Any one who is acquainted with the old masters will comprehend how much "The Last Supper" is damaged when I say that the spectator can not really tell, now, whether the disciples are Hebrews or Italians. [5]
- But the most intent spectator of the scene was Parpon the dwarf, who was grotesquely crouched upon the wide ledge of a window. [11]
- When I get in the midst of it, it is too apt to lose its charm, and then there is the trouble and ennui of being obliged to take an active part in the farce; but to be a mere spectator is amusing. [4]
- He had promised his wife solemnly that he would keep away from these, and he had a natural inclination to keep his promise; he had no wish to be that peaceful spectator who always gets shot when there is any firing on a mob. [8]
- Here is the highest part of the Blue Ridge, and from the gentle summit of Mount Jefferson the spectator has in view a hundred miles of this remarkable range, this ribbed mountain structure, which always wears a mantle of beauty, changeable purple and violet. [4]
- Why, simpleminded, she has nearly a hundred frocks, each one a dream, a conception of genius, a vaporous idea, one might say, which will reveal more beauty than it hides, and teach the spectator that art is simply nature adorned. [4]
- Time did not hang heavy on his hands for the vast multitude here assembled interested him greatly, though he had frequently been a spectator of similar festivities in Rome and Constantinople; but this crowd differed in many particulars from the populace of those cities. [10]
- He wore an eye-glass; he seemed an unconcerned spectator of our movements --so does the untrained, unthinking eye look out upon destiny! [11]
- It was not difficult for one of his modest temperament to be content with the position of spectator of the play of life which he occupied. [10]
- Yet with this difference: he must stand by and let the avenger be the executioner; he must be the spectator merely. [11]
- Then in the days of sharp-pointed swords, a spectator was an occasional victim--the end of a broken sword flew five or ten feet and buried itself in his neck or his heart, and death ensued instantly. [5]
- La Hire had been hit, but all that the spectator saw of it was a something like a thin flash of light in the air, but nothing distinct, nothing definite. [5]
- Formerly he had been an eager and attentive spectator of the plays of Menander and of his imitators, Alexis, Apollodorus and Posidippus; but now when they were performed he stared into vacancy and thought of Selene. [10]
- It excites me because I cannot make out, for sure, what it was that moved the spectator to resist the officer. [5]
- It looks, to a calm spectator from the gallery, as though the rebel forces are growing weaker and more demoralized every moment. [9]
- There were we, a battalion and a fife-and-drum band; there was the man with the eyeglass, the indifferent spectator, yet the engine of fate; there was the wagon, a mottled horse, and a man driving-- catch it? [11]
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