It would have amused a bystander to observe the effect produced on each visitor by the footman's appearance and the information he tendered.
Bright thereupon floored his adversary, and, wresting his cowhide from him, applied it to its owner to the extent of at least five hundred lashes, meanwhile threatening to shoot the first bystander who attempted to interfere.
The walls are smoking a little," commented a bystander judicially.
Why, you see, they's mostly drunk," stated a bystander with an air of explaining all.
I'll take a hand, if there be no objection," said a bystanderwith a wink at Mogridge, which Rodney could not see.
He had his eye on the woman, who remained in the roadway, pointing after the coach and apparently asking a bystander some question respecting it--perhaps where it stopped.
He next took the orange from the bystander and cut it open, when it was found to be full of rice.
Giving the orange to a bystander to hold, he caught up a teapot and began to pour a cup of tea from it, when the spout became clogged.
And at this moment it might be difficult for a bystander to say with which of the combatants rested the better chance of permanent success.
A bystander listening to Mr Kissing's tone would have been led to believe that the whole Income-tax Office was jeopardised by the terrible iniquity thus disclosed.
All great changes are preceded by numbers of sporadic, and as the bystander thinks, impotent efforts.
A bystander would have been puzzled by the sudden knitting of Catherine's brows over it.
Now, Count Ségur eminently resembled thebystander in his opportunities of collecting exact information concerning the whole events of the campaign.
When the explosion of the infernal machine took place, a bystander rushed into a company, and exclaimed, "The First Consul is blown up.
In the former instance, the bystander would exclaim,--"The watch is an evidence of intelligence.
A fortiori would a bystanderof the Universe exclaim, "The Universe is an evidence of intelligence.
The bystander exclaims, "The watch is an evidence of intelligence.
Some call him the Christ’s Rest man,” proceeded the bystander affably.
Both were somewhat proud of their grip, and a bystander might have mistaken their amiable efforts to crush each other's fingers for the outward and visible signs of true affection.
Such an odd taste as it seemed, too, a bystander might reasonably have thought, when he might have been employing his time so much more pleasantly in the very room.
And now again a bystander might have amused himself by noting the men's characters.
Only by an effort, a wrench of the mind, would a bystander on the advantage, say, of one of the little rocky, outcropping hills have been able to narrow his vision to details.
A bystander would have seen merely a group of lazy native servants gossiping idly.
Jest then I heard a bystander say, "Amongst all the places to the Islands, this place and Browney's take the cake.
See page 235)] But jest as I wuz moralizin' on this, I hearn a bystander talkin' about the Trip to the Moon.
As I did so a bystander sez, "Have you been up on the Awful Tower?
And I didn't know but the place had been lied about, and I asked a bystander if any of 'em wuz meetin' house steeples.
A bystander sez, "That is so, he is a changed man.
A bareheadedbystander sez, "The fire started in Hell Gate.
The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
It is thus that the high and exalted philosopher, the poet, and the man of benevolence and humanity are sometimes seen to be such by the bystander and the stranger.
The bystander mistakes for a spontaneous contention and unwillingness to die, what is in reality nothing more than an involuntary contraction and convulsion of the nerves, to which the mind is no party, and is even very probably unconscious.
Illustration: "Snatching a walking stick from a bystander and tearing a sleeve from her dress, she made a flag of truce and mounted the steps of the gate.
Snatching a walking stick from a bystander and tearing a sleeve from her dress she made a flag of truce and mounted the steps of the gate.
An open-mouthed bystander listened admiringly to his language.
The state can be no more an impartial bystander in one case than in the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bystander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
