What is "bystander"

Usage examples of "bystander".

At any rate she had a jesting air, and the bystanders noticed that she pronounced the words of her abjuration with a smile.

Finally, the wife, stung by words whose bitterness was embittered by their truth, cried aloud, taking the bystanders to witness, that the husband for whose sake, she said, she had endured patiently the falsehoods and accusations of yonder hussy, was nothing better than a beater, a striker, a kicker, a trampler, and a cuffer of his wife.

Only Cloud, who seemed to realize she would go into a string the moment she misbehaved, walked meekly beside Daine, The only time she offered violence to a bystander was when he, or she, was too interested in how well the strings were tied together.

The marquess had dragged him home, but after battles of will that left bystanders shaking, his brother had given in and bought him an ensigncy in a good regiment.

The Facers also shanghai an assortment of Utopian corpgeeks and hapless bystanders, in order to populate the starship and colonize Yggdrasil.

Now the Settlers were getting to their feet, some of them attempting to flee, others seeming just as eager for the fight as the Ironheads, slowed only by the press of bystanders intent on nothing more than escape.

They were seen struggling together but by the time one or two bystanders had jumped in and swum out to help it was too late.

Upon this, Barre dreading more questions from the bystanders, hastily resumed his own catechism by asking who was the sorcerer.

Rushan jerked the blade out as soldiers fought for space, shoving each other out of the way, other guards rushing from the gateway, bystanders everywhere gaping and paralyzed, Wataki, the shishi informer, as surprised as any of the soldiers, and terrified he would become involved or betrayed by this shishi he recognized who had appeared out of nowhere.

With a graceful leap, the stallion plunged down the gangplank and landed in the midst of the crowd, trampling a hapless bystander.

Poppo took the glowing bar and carried it about for as long a time as the king wanted, whereafter he showed his undamaged hand and convinced all the bystanders.

Standing at the grave of the woman who died, Jonelle gave an impassioned summary on the tragedy of two sides --pro- and antiabortion here--not being able to come to an understanding, having to resort to violence--violence that in this case took the life of an innocent bystander.

While Baroni was speaking, a young man slowly and with dignity passed through the bystanders, advanced, and, looking very earnestly at Tancred, seated himself on the same carpet as the grand Sheikh.

That, and the lurid stories that even our respectable papers were printing, because those things were indeed going on- bootlegging, wide-open gambling houses, houses of ill repute, riots in which innocent bystanders were slain, gangland slayings, all of it.

The sound shocked the air as a nighthorse broke through the thin screen of bystanders, not bolting uncontrolled into the dusk, but treading catfooted, shaking his mane and throwing off such a cold feeling of ill that senior riders crowded each other to get out of its path.