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Sight-seer

Sight-seer \Sight"-se`er\, n. One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.

Usage examples of "sight-seer".

The local fame of Lyng occasionally attracted the more intelligent sight-seer, and Mary half-expected to see the stranger dissemble a camera, or justify his presence by producing it.

As soon as the sight-seers had gone, Chon Look went to one side of the shrine and pressed his hand against the side of a five-shelved rack which contained ornaments of jade and china.

American sight-seers were considered open game in parts of Chinatown, and Chon Look, by a tie-up with the bus owners, soon had a going enterprise.

With a constant stream of sight-seers pouring into it, Chon Look had no need for other revenue.

But as a sight-seer on a bus - one of those many visitors to Manhattan who nightly go in herds to see the Chinese district - that policy had enabled Hugo Urvin to conceal his visits to the shrine controlled by Chon Look.

She laughed archly, and responded with some Slavic words, and then delivered her train of sight-seers over to the custodian who was to show them through the halls and chambers of the Burg.

The sight-seers flattened themselves against the walls as the great lumbering coach put about and went off again the way it had come, the life-guards following after.