gazer
Noun
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Noun
gazer (plural gazers)
- One who gazes.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act II, Scene 2,
- I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book V, edited by Abraham Stoll, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto Eight, stanza 38, p. 113,
- Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:
- 1820, Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,"
- Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, pp. 86-7,
- I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.
- 1914, Wassily Kandinsky, The Art of Spiritual Harmony, translated by M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, Chapter V, p. 49,
- Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act II, Scene 2,
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