"Looker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so, Oro is not merely a universal on- looker, but occupies and fills all space; and no vacancy is left for any being, or any thing but Oro. Hence, Oro is in all things, and himself is all things—the time-old creed. But since evil abounds, ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville
... Hester would have found it to make him happy! not merely how easy, but what happiness it would have been to her to merge her every wish into the one great object of fulfiling his will. To her, an on-looker, the course of married life, which should lead to perfect happiness, seemed to plain! Alas! it is often so! and the resisting forces which make all such harmony and delight impossible are not recognized by the bystanders, hardly by the ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. III • Elizabeth Gaskell
... saves all the grain. To use the language of a gratified looker-on, an old and experienced farmer, 'it ...
— Obed Hussey - Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap • Various
... made the occasion for public mourning. The reason was that, as Abraham was dead, Isaac blind, and Jacob away from home, there remained Esau as the only mourner to appear in public and represent her family, and beholding that villain, it was feared, might tempt a looker-on to cry out, "Accursed be the breasts that gave thee suck." To avoid this, the burial of ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... must be a good-looker. This preacher is a good-looker, all right, but looks ain't everything. Must be quick at the start, must have good action, good style, staying power, and good at the finish. Most preachers never know when to finish, and that's ...
— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor
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