Looker
[lukә]
Definition
(n.) One who looks.
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- Pray let me see you measure out the laudanum; I want to have something to do with it, even in the unimportant character of a mere looker-on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Began taking off his breeches, and then a looker-on gave him a trifle for his pluck. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The boy's eyes, which had been fixed on mine, slowly turned to the looker-on, and I saw in the two faces that all he said was true. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It has been the privilege of the writers to be present at some of these conferences, not only as participants, but in some cases as lookers-on while awaiting their turn. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Not that we wanted to take them, you understand; we went out as lookers on; me, and Mr. Wopsle, and Pip. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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