1 s uncle, but an onlooker might even have perceived it as mocking him and he, of course, jumped up as if he had just been stabbed.
2 It was almost humiliating even for the onlooker.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law... 3 To an onlooker her beauty would have made her feelings almost seem reasonable.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 4 From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS 5 The gipsy-like student looked about him and addressed the onlookers in an indistinct bleating voice.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 6 It was found necessary to clear the entire piers from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalities of the night would have been increased manifold.
7 The ring of onlookers distended and closed again elastically.
8 We know that at Governor's balls it is customary for the onlookers to compose verses at the expense of the dancers; and in this case the verses were directed to Chichikov's address.
9 Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies.
10 The French onlookers and listeners laughed.
11 If his sisters or their friends happened to be among the onlookers on 'popular nights,' Sylvester stood back in the shadow under the cottonwood trees, smoking and watching Lena with a harassed expression.