And they could not be known by any one if they are always passing away--for if they are always passing away, the observer has no opportunity of observing their state.
But I knew that would fail to convey my principal thought to the casual observer of the title.
Billy Towler, who still stood in the doorway a silent but acute observer of all that went on.
Sooner or later the forger lapses into some trick of his own, and it is here the trained observer catches him.
It must be remembered that the eye of the casual observer takes in a word as a whole rather than in detail.
The town itself was very small, but its dilapidated walls, which enclose an immense extent of ground, would lead the observerto suppose, that it was formerly of much greater magnitude.
The report made and the assistants out of the room, the captain turned to the observer and saluted gravely.
His voice came clearly from the speaker, and the Captain gasped--his ultra-wave observer and sometime clerk was Lyman Cleveland himself, probably the greatest living expert in beam transmission!
During a sojourn of nearly two years, Holberg was a closeobserver of everything connected with the great war.
There is no disconnection in the progress of an art, though certain occurrences may appear to the superficial observer as being entirely accidental.
To the observer of human nature it is, indeed, a curious spectacle to watch the several contrary feelings and impulses by which the Australian savage is actuated in his intercourse with the more civilised portions of our race.
Bennillong had been an attentive observer of manners, which he was not unsuccessful in copying; his dress was an object of no small concern to him, and every one was of opinion that he had cast off all love for savage life.
Doctor Holmes's parody on Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" shows what a careful observer he was.
Yet the manner in which even the trained observer fails to observe correctly is unfailingly demonstrated by the widely differing accounts of the same occurrence as reported in the various newspapers of a community.
Your good newspaper reporter is a trained observer who describes exactly what he sees.
As many creatures besides birds are affected by the approach of rain or wind, such indications should not be slighted by an observer who wishes to foresee weather or compare its variations.
A close observer has stated, that "his laugh was forced and uncouth, and even his smile not the most pleasing.
Harley L'Estrange was not so critically handsome as Audley Egerton; to a commonplace observer he was, at best, rather good-looking than otherwise.
A judgment which condemns the whole system of Poor Laws, for instance, falls with very different weight from a mere speculative theorist and from a practical observer whose mind is constitutionally averse from extreme conclusions.
Surely this was an unnecessary step; yet where is the man who, on all occasions, acts precisely as a calm and reflecting observer of his conduct, long afterwards, could have wished him to act?
In a general way, the change of apparent direction of an object arising from a change in the position of an observer is termed parallax.
To an observer situated in such longitude that they occur during the day, they would, of course, be invisible.
The nearer a dark planet is to the star, the more likely it will be to hide its light from an observerat a great distance.
Only a superficial observer can see at once that the amount of removal has been greatly in excess of the rate mentioned above.
Again the priest hesitated; a close observer might even have seen a trace of agitation in that stern countenance.
But such an observer would not have made the necessary allowance for the young man's ordinary vigour and endurance.
But a very close observerwould have noticed that Hayward kissed the lady on, or very near, the ear!
A casual observer would have said, "What a pleasant bucolic-this little surprise party of welcome!
Thus during sixteen days each observer had three tours of duty at Adam O.
You cannot turn an observer into a scout at a moment's notice.
One observer stood in the narrow passage outside the door as sentry and gas guard.
A shrewd observer looking him over would find about the man a subtle air of potential destruction, which might have been caused by the way he wore his guns.
A second look and the observer would turn away oppressed by a disquieting feeling that evaded analysis by lurking annoyingly just beyond the horizon of thought.
Telegrams reached the house in quick succession, and the ladies, though they betrayed no anxiety, showed by little indications that might have escaped a less interested observer than Bob that an important moment had arrived.
Only an observer of more than usual intentness would have connected this curious fancy with the fact that the Chinaman had lost his right ear.
The observer sees a fitful apparition which suddenly vanishes into space.
I was an attentive observer of every event which took place, and was by no means satisfied with the proceedings.
For three weeks I lay in my bed, an attentive observer of the singular scenes that occurred in my apartment.
Any ordinaryobserver must have often remarked that the first effect of a decrease in temperature in autumn is the sudden disappearance of many winged and wingless insects, on which many soft-billed birds of passage depend.
The problem to be solved consists, then, in the simple illumination of the eye to be observed by a source of light so arranged that the observer can be placed in the axis of the rays entering and emerging without intercepting those rays.
