People watching

Usage examples of spectators.

All the upperclass spectators except Jim Struck are former Eschaton devotees, though Hal and Troeltsch were both marginal.

But he was not doing it from sheer cruelty, as many of the spectators who raised their voices in loud protest imagined.

The wire, which was suspended from above, was so small that it was wholly invisible to the spectators, which heightened the effect of his flight.

Jumbo began a race with himself about the arena, following the concourse, now and then sending his heels into the air right over the heads of the spectators of the lower row of seats, sending them scrambling under the seats for protection.

Phil had made his grand entry on Emperor, and Teddy had nearly sent the spectators into hysterics by his funny antics on the back of Jumbo, the educated mule.

For the spectators not perched on the transom overhead, the players looked waffle-cut by the chain-link fencing.

When the spectators had assembled when he had spied Eliste standing among them the young man began to speak.

Consciences assuaged, the spectators were free to turn their righteous wrath upon the true source of their woes, the privileged class.

He knew without instruction that he desired a uniform hue, to mould those disparate spectators into a single, mighty, mindless entity, subject to his will.

As if the signal had broken some spell holding them motionless and silent, the spectators shook off their paralysis to answer with a deep, collective roar.

Some of them were singing as they walked, some exhorting or insulting inactive spectators, some shouting threats, some chanting popular slogans.

Among the spectators stood Shorvi Nirienne, trusting in a dark wig and a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles to preserve his anonymity.

Just now, for example a swirl of unusual activity down below as the street cleared and the spectators lined up three deep along the gutters on both sides, shoving and elbowing for a good view of whatever was approaching.

For a while the crowd loitered, but nothing more appeared, and the spectators began to disperse.

At the top, all three became visible above the heads of the massed spectators, and Eliste spied a plump, brown-haired young man whose round face with its glazed despairing eyes was unknown to her.