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Passerby   /pˈæsərbi/   Listen
Passerby

noun
(pl. passersby)
1.
A person who passes by casually or by chance.  Synonyms: passer, passer-by.






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"Passerby" Quotes from Famous Books



... on his face," answered a thane who had seen him. "He is not as handsome as he was last night. That is what keeps him away. Some passerby put his ...
— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler

... Charlotte Bronte cannot tell why she is so unhappy, why she feels like a prisoner in the world,—why earth, our beautiful earth, is like a charnel house to her. And yet we think that the most ordinary passerby could see very satisfactory reasons why Charlotte Bronte was what she was, and felt what she felt. Hollow cheek and faded eye, teach their wisdom to their possessor last of all. The pale-eyed school-girl, who never played along with ...
— A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn • S.R. Calthrop

... almost deserted square in front of it, for the citizens of Frankfort found it expedient to get early indoors when darkness fell. The young man found himself glancing furtively from right to left, starting at every shadow and scrutinising every passerby who was innocently hurrying to his own home. The name "Fehmgerichte" kept repeating itself in his brain like an incantation. He took the middle of the square and hesitated when he came to the narrow street down which ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr



Words linked to "Passerby" :   walker, passer-by, pedestrian, passer, footer



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