Use "passer-by" in a sentence

1. would have looked funny to a passer-by - two armies

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2. something that another passer-by had thrown

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3. Any passer-by would not even be aware of it, without prior knowledge

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4. Smith readily agreed, and at the next street corner, he pulled the truck to the curb so that Gambelli could put his head out the window and ask a male passer-by for the whereabouts of the nearest bordello

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5. A passer-by called it in

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6. Since the ship was parked up tight against the old hulk, he figured a casual passer-by would skip on past without a second look

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7. “If some curious child or a passer-by should happen to see someone putting an envelope in a tree, yes, that would be a problem,” said the Admiral

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8. watched the passer-byers walking

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9. At the Nevada, Search Light Tea Party this year (2010), it was Union Leftists who threw eggs and turned street signs around, and yelled obscenities at the passer-byes

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10. He was born into a xenophobic family, starting off as a snot faced kid that ranted at passer-by’s that didn’t fit his close minded idea of who should live and who shouldn’t, becoming a petty thief in his teens, and killing a few “non-whites” as he termed them, during his later years in life

11. She lowered hers, still smiling, and he turned his on a surprised passer-by

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12. One of the passer-bys, a woman who had momentarily stopped to pick up her son, looked up at

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13. bound and helpless by the roadside, at the mercy of the next passer-by, who

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14. Finally a passer-by realized what had happened

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15. Little girls begged money from every passer-by, while their brothers played soldier with wooden guns

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16. the gazing eyes of passer-bys

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17. In their eagerness to get rid of Officer Sheikho and to make a quick getaway, they had failed to notice that the man was just a drunken passer-by

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18. She sounded so mournful that any passer-by might have thought she was referring to her own mortality

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19. In their eagerness to get rid of Officer Sheikho and to make a quick get away, they had failed to notice that the man was just a drunken passer-by

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20. A passer-by approached him, attractive woman dressed in brown, And asked very politely what he was writing down

21. 'As if it were August and we'd been reaping,' said Vicki; and the big girl laughed at this, and the small girl laughed at this, with an excessiveness that would have convinced a passer-by that somebody was being very droll

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22. But there was no passer-by

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23. I imagine you are a passer-by?"

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24. There are many Hun graves, big mounds with trees growing on them, and I suppose Huns inside them, round Stresow, and a monument reminding the passer-by of a battle fought there between the Prussians under the old Dessauer and the Swedes

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25. Then, after a warm rain, the shadows broaden and draw together, for overhead the leaves are bursting; the wind blowing on to him from the clearing is scented, for the grass out there has violets in it; the pear trees in the deserted garden put on their white robes of promise; and then comes summer, and in the long days there are wanderers in the woods, and the chance passer-by, moved perhaps by some vague sentiment of pity for so much loneliness, throws him a few flowers or a bunch of ferns as he goes his way

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26. Must it not be beautiful, thought Priscilla, to slip away so quietly in that sunny room, with no sound to break the peace but the ticking of the clock that marked off the last minutes, and outside the occasional footstep of a passer-by still hurrying on life's business? Wonderful to have done with everything, to have it all behind one, settled, lived through, endured

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27. “Just a passer-by”, he said quietly

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28. “Mind you, when I was in France I underwent a most amazing experience and some passer-by was certain I’d been entered by the Holy Spirit

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29. Intoxicated with the desire for the honey, she cried, “Is there a generous man who would take from me a grain of barley and place me in the midst of the bee-hive? When the tree of union will thus bear fruit, will there be anything sweeter than honey?” A passer-by took pity on her and placed her in the midst of the honey without taking the price for it

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30. If one looks up at a fine mass of cumulus clouds above a London street, the ordinary passer-by who follows one's gaze expects to see a balloon or a flying-machine at least, and when he sees it is only clouds he is apt to wonder what one is gazing at

31. There was not a cabman or a passer-by in the street

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32. Beth started, leaned forward, smiled and nodded, watched the passer-by till his quick tramp died away, then said softly as if to herself, "How strong and well and happy that dear boy looks

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33. gate, lead it to the nearest wine-shop, and ask some passer-by to order two jars

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34. astonished at this proceeding, inquired of a passer-by what it all meant, but no

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35. "Respectable public, ladies and gentlemen! The humble undersigned being a passer-by in this illustrious city, I have wished to procure for myself the honor, not to say the pleasure, of presenting to this intelligent and distinguished audience a celebrated little donkey, who has already had the honor of dancing in the presence of His Majesty the Emperor of all the principal courts of Europe

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36. Anyhow, whatever the origin of the relic, there was and is something sinister, or solemn, according to mood, in the scene amid which it stands; something tending to impress the most phlegmatic passer-by

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37. It must have been flung out in the hope that a passer-by would pick up the note and deliver it, which was what happened

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38. When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even a dog!"

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39. She bore the name which pleased the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small child, running bare-legged in the street

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40. Madeleine arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the priest's house he halted, stood motionless, then turned about, and retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron knocker

41. It has its buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes

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42. The road was so narrow at the Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives the name of the dead, Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels, and the date of the accident, February, 1637

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43. Where is he? What is he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo and Waterloo

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44. The passer-by cannot refrain from recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected with

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45. To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a passer-by

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46. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked

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47. He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol

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48. More than one passer-by lay with outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a pool of blood

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49. , that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God

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50. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, a passer-by

51. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of the place, asked this passer-by:— "What is the name of this spot?"

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52. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible delight

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53. She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would say, and to "teach him a lesson!" The truth is, that she was ravishing in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a bonnet from Gerard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way

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54. Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it

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55. The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into the black niche, and was greatly alarmed

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56. This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, entered the Rue Plumet

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57. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared

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58. The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had entered an elongated funnel

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59. From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the bullet, sometimes a biscaien was seen to ensconce itself in some closed shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the plaster of a wall

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60. The eye, however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the passer-by

61. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret of the convulsions of that obscure form which had

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62. "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by

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63. Jean Valjean was a passer-by

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64. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were forced to bid each other goodday, greatly to the regret of both

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65. The passer-by said to the inhabitant:—"You see what I have on my back, I must get out, you have the key, give it to me

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66. That mind snapped, and fury flooded in on him, so that he went shouting along the roads, striking at every passer-by

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67. The streets were empty, but now and then I met a passer-by, one of the common people

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68. " Steal from me ? VV^hy, I'm afraid of stealing myself ! " I once heard a passer-by in the street say gaily

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69. As I hasten on my road I particularly like either asking some one a practical question, or being asked one by some passer-by: both question and answer are always brief, clear, and to the point; they are spoken without stopping and almost always in a friendly manner, and there is a greater readiness to answer than at any other hour

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70. Some other passer-by appeared there, and she evidently flew from me to him

71. "I was kept alive when I was a man not by what I did for myself, but because there was love in a passer-by and in his wife, and because they pitied and loved me

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72. “Dear me; why, it’s you, my honey; and I, fool, thought it was just some passer-by

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73. The answer is the same as that of the sage, who in reply to the question of a passer-by, how far it was to the city, answered, "Go

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74. But if I stop and speak to him as man to man, show him that I wish to be more than a mere passer-by, and, if, as it often happened, he shed tears in relating his misfortune, then he sees in me not merely a chance helper, but that which I wish him to see,—a kind man

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75. He came to his senses in Nevsky Prospect, only owing to the chance that he ran so neatly full-tilt into a passer-by that he saw stars in his eyes

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76. Golyadkin muttered his excuses without raising his head, and it was only after the passer-by, muttering something far from flattering, had walked a considerable distance away, that he raised his nose and looked about to see where he was and how he had got there

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77. A simple stone, upon which I have carved a cross, still stands to remind the passer-by of the sin of a most unfortunate man

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78. W When Roebuck lived near Chicago, he had a huge house, a sort of crude palace such as so many of our millionaires built for themselves in the first excitement of their new wealth—a house with porches and balconies and towers and minarets and all sorts of gingerbread effects to compel the eye of the passer-by

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