They're usually innocent

Usage examples of bystanders.

Some of the bystanders gave vent to excited exclamations, and others remained staring at me in astonishment.

On one occasion she even pulled his hair, so that the bystanders burst out laughing.

Probably this was mostly due to self-conceit, for I wanted to astonish the bystanders with the riskiness of my play.

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

Just then one of the bystanders remarked that the mother superior was in the habit of interpreting the Catechism to her scholars.

Why did she turn on her left side and arm and remain so long in that position, if it were not to hide from the bystanders the instrument with which she wounded herself?

Gang members, junkies, a few innocent bystanders, but mostly people who were used to living by their wits and taking direct action to get what they wanted, all being asked to lie in bed and take whatever was coming for the good of the wider community.

The spear whizzed past the bystanders and landed with a solid thunk, its point nearly buried in the ground and the shaft vibrating from the impact.

Mollyboys pout and pose and blow kisses at bystanders, or navigate ships of skirt with entranced panache.

All the bystanders were deeply moved by this painful scene, this last confession, wrested so to say from the delirium.

Someone among the awed bystanders volunteered that they did, and was sent running for him.

Then right and a left, past amazed bystanders, and then there were the catshead cobbles of Scoone Avenue under his feet and he found the wind to accelerate a little.

There was a laugh among the bystanders, and the count reigned in his horse.

Upon this there was a buzz, and a laugh, and a general withdrawal of the bystanders, and a bringing in of great heaps, and piles, and bags and bags full of papers.