Observers

Examples

• Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The charm which the spontaneity of little children has for sympathetic observers is due to perception of this intellectual originality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We often hear (almost invariably, however, from superficial observers) that guilt can look like innocence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You were going to say that Isabel stoops--I know you were--you men are such observers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And the ladies,' observed Mr. Chillip, timorously, 'are great observers, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have also consulted some sagacious and experienced observers, and, after deliberation, they concur in this view. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Everywhere small bodies of the enemy had been encountered, but they were observers and not in force to fight battles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some observers are convinced that a damp climate affects the growth of the hair, and that with the hair the horns are correlated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And I assure you, sir, the ladies are great observers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• All sorts of observers have pointed out that the Western States adopt reform legislation more quickly than the Eastern. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The ladies are great observers, sir? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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